The night Tunisia changed

The night Tunisia changed Submitted by Faisal Edroos on Thu, 07/23/2026 - 15:40 President Kais Saied said he was saving the state. But on the night of 25 July 2021, the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring dramatically returned to one-man rule For more than a decade, Tunisia had been held up as the Arab Spring's lone democratic success. While revolutions elsewhere descended into civil war, military rule or renewed authoritarianism, Tunisia managed something few thought possible.