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Untroubling Tunisia: Waiting for Travel and Democracy
The thirty or so countries that make up the Arab world are not known for enlightened or progressive leadership.
But it was not always so.
In the Middle Ages when Europe was groping its way through the darkness in abysmal societies. Southern Spain, Andalusia, was a beacon to the world.
Here, from 711 to 1492, under Moorish/Muslim rule, Andalusia (from the Arabic Al Andalus) dazzled with art, science, architecture and religious