For the activist Emad, it rankled that Westerners turned their attention to Tunisia only when the country became involved in militancy that impacted the West, and then used the lens of that violence to understand the whole country. He kept pushing his beret back and shaking his head in exasperation. “We have so many kinds of extremism after the revolution, why does the media only look at the religious kind? Why does no one ask why the media outlets and prominent spokespeople, all affiliated with the old regime, were making huge public issues out of the niqab or even just fleeting references to
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