Tunisia
Yesterday in Pulitzer Center's education office, we hosted a Google Hangout between Cairo-based journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and 9th graders at Staples High School in Westport, CT.
A year after the revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, what has become of the people, the politics and the economy of Tunisia?
Graffiti all over Tunisia paints a picture of the Arab Spring spirit and newly found freedom after the fall of former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Mohamed Bouazizi's suicide ignited an uprising of unemployed youth in Tunisia, then across North Africa.
Ellen Knickmeyer has been traveling the Arab world from the first weeks of the revolutions to tell the story of the frustrated young generation at the heart of the unrest.
Unemployment skyrocketed as Tunisia's disproportionate swath of youth entered the labor force; now their frustration is boiling over.