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Change comes to Tunisia, slowly
Did the fall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali amount to a genuine revolution? Three weeks after Tunisia's president of 23 years, facing public protests, fled to Saudi Arabia, this is a question that ordinary people are still grappling with.
Though the Ben Ali regime may be going, or gone, it is unclear to what extent the political changes will lead to the decisive social and economic transformations that protesters have been calling for - particularly in the marginalized central and southern regions.
Yet the social transformations that are taking place on the streets of Tunis, whether in the commercial downtown area or the bourgeois eastern suburbs or the poorest suburbs, are undeniable.