Tunisia: Ben Ali Has Left the Building · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

This post is part of our special coverage of Tunisia Revolution 2011.
News of the Tunisian coup d'etat or may be the Tunisian revolution made the headlines across the Arabic blogosphere. Bloggers from all over the Arab world wrote to congratulate the Tunisian people.
From the United Arab Emirates, YM, tried to summarize what's been going on in Tunisia in the past three weeks.
Egyptian Abo-Marwan wrote about the Tunisian revolution, and how it might be the spark that could start successive revolutions in the neighbouring countries:
In fact the lack of job opportunities and all the current events in Tunisia are not the only reason behind the Tunisian people's uprising. The Tunisian ruling party and the president, who has been in power since 1987, have been accused of corruption. Mohamed Shackow from Syria published here a Wikileaks cable [Ar] which he believes was one of the reasons behind the people's uprising, while the Egyptian blogger, Diaa El Din Gad, mentioned here reports that he believes contains evidence to Ben Ali's corruption.
From Libya, Abdel Nasser El Baah, wrote about Ben Ali's departure and the consequences of the coup d'etat there.
Abdel Nasser however wondered if it is really a coup d'etat, or is it too soon to judge.
My2Cents wrote here congratulating the Tunisian people on their revolution and quoting the final two two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia – Humat Al Hima – which are written by Tunisian famous poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi:
From Egypt, Magdawia, wrote about what is going on in Tunis, which is always considered as a rival to Egypt when it comes to football matches, but this is the first time for the Egyptians to sit in the spectators seats and support the Tunisians.
And finally Dr. Farid wrote a post in the blog of The Egyptian Democratic Students Union to congratulate the Tunisian people, and wish for their revolution to continue till they have a democratic country and for other people to learn from them.
This post is part of our special coverage of Tunisia Revolution 2011.