started mr maule said. seven years after the people of the middle east took to the streets demanding transparency democracy and inclusion the region is awash with fanaticism. and. our popular movement to fail in the arab world has the arab spring become the ultimate antidote against revolutions or will and other ways of uprisings and goals to reach and once again.

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and what is next for the region we'll ask the former president of tunisia where the wave started mr maule said. seven years after the people of the middle east took to the streets demanding transparency democracy and inclusion the region is awash with notices and under a key and launch. a movement has failed in the arab world has the arab spring become the ultimate antidote against revolutions or will another wave of uprisings and goes to region once again. the former president of tunisia welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us now. seventy years ago they are spring infected the middle east with hope that popular app risings would get rid of dictators and i share in an era of prosperity we have now only one success story out of many why has to manage to make this work so far but no one else well first of all let me thank you for this invitation of course here in tunisia we are all extremely story paul what happened in countries like syria like yemen libya even in a ship i think it's really a catastrophe that just because the people wanted to be free you know what happene

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