It’s all About Unity:

The old prediction made by a medieval prophet that iron will one day mix with blood and flesh, is an accurate description of our times.  Probably no other time in history had witnessed a so blatant violation of the human body by machines before now.  Yet in the last century, war took its heavy machinery out of battlefields to the streets for a very good reason: the enemy has now become the street protester, and not solely renegades plotting overthrows in remote mountain caves, secretly dealing in weapon exchanges with invisible tribes across borders.

Revolutions are acts of extremeness, there is no doubt about that.  An act of extreme despair or of extreme courage, often trigger an extreme situation which in turn leads to an extreme change.  But ours is the time of extreme acts of protests too, whether their outcome is massive upheavals, or just silent cathartic outlets.  All over the world, people are taking to shockingly creative ways to articulate protest and to stage their dissent before thirsty media.  In these difficult times flooded by myriads of discourses and media reports, scenes of war, horror, bloodshed and cold blooded crime started to turn into something that resembles pornography: an exaggerated disclosure of situations which, in the old times when people used the word ‘decent’ too frequently, would have looked absolutely outrageous. 

Nous confrontant à l'injustice, une seule question ne cesse de me harceler; pourquoi. Pourquoi tant de haine, de médiocrité et de nonchalance? Pourquoi ces inégalités et ces abus? Pourquoi cette absurdité de vie? Pourquoi ces requins qui nous bouffent et nous fassent saigner à mort? Pourquoi ces épouvantails qui nous barrent le chemin, nous conditionnant, nous dégradant ? Le pourquoi devient la proie et il me torture de l’intérieur. Il devient un cri sourd que seuls les êtres intelligents perçoivent.

Pourtant la vraie question devra être comment. Comment réussir à vaincre mes peurs, mes angoisses et mes amertumes ? Comment soulager mes peines et les asservir à ma cause ? Comment goûter de chaque instant de ma vie avec ces peines, ces joies et ces déceptions ? Comment naviguer libre comme l’air quand je suis engloutie dans les entrailles de la baleine ? 

Le terme changement sous entend le passage d'un état à un autre.  M'arrêtant sur une citation de Ghandi "Incarnez vous même le changement auquel vous voulez que les autres aspirent", me sont apparues à la fois la grandiosité d'une telle philosophie et la difficulté de son actualisation.

للفن في تونس تاريخ موغل في القدم، فقد ترك البربر رسومهم على جدران المنازل الطينية والرملية، وشيد الرومان مسارحهم التي بقيت أثارها شاهدا على أيامهم، وجاء الأندلسيون والعثمانيون بفن العمارة الإسلامي وان كانت القرون الأخيرة من حكم العثمانيين قد عرفت فترة من الركود الثقافي والفني.  وحين كان العالم يستيقظ على بدايات الفن المعاصر، جاءت فترة الاستعمار في تونس، تلتها خمسون عاما من حكم رئاسي كرس الفن لخدمة مصالحه.

I found en email from one of my British friends yesterday morning with a very short message: ‘comment on this’, followed by a link to an article on the BBC website titled TUNISIA: BROKEN DREAMS SIX MONTHS AFTER REVOLUTION.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14104682

“Lately, I’ve been thinking of men in powerful positions, abusing their power over women in less powerful positions’, says Sally Kohn, a political commentator and the founder of the Movement Vision Lab think tank. ‘What makes it ok? Asks Kohn in her 12 minutes slide show published on her Movement Vision Lab’s channel on YouTube, ‘What makes these men think they can so wilfully, so blatantly, violate these women’s boundaries, these girls boundaries, what makes them think it is ok?”

The claims of former Tunisian president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali that his trial is a charade which stands for what he called the victor’s justice, may be an appeal to the international community’s sense of justice and its abhorrence of revenge through judiciary procedures, a fate which falling dictatorships often face.