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Beji Caid Essebsi

Tunisian military officers escort the coffin of late President Beji Caid Essebsi during his state funeral at the presidential palace in Tunis, July 27. (Reuters)

Beji Caid Essebsi’s legacy

Oussama Romdhani

Beji Caid Essebsi

A file photo shows Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi at Carthage Palace in Tunis, 2017. (Reuters)

Tunisia prepares for president's funeral, new elections

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Foreign students attend class at the Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages in Tunis, Tunisia. (Khaoula ben Amara)

Tunisia’s Bourguiba school gears up for summer session

Stephen Quillen

Sfax

Tunisian students take a university entrance exam in Tunis. (AFP)

Tunisia university entrance exams highlight regional disparities

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Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi surrounded by his doctors, Mustapha Ferjani (R) and Moez Belkhouja (L) on July 1, 2019 before leaving the Tunis Military Hospital. (AFP)

The day Tunisia stood still

Oussama Romdhani

Tunis

Police officers stand guard near the site of a suicide bombing attack in downtown Tunis, Tunisia June 27, 2019. (Reuters)

ISIS claims responsibility for suicide bomb blast in Tunis

Aymen Smiri

A car of the Tunisian National Guard is seen parked inside the cordoned off scene where a suspect, wanted over two back-to-back suicide attacks in the Tunisian capital last week, blew himself up with a suicide vest to evade capture, July 2, 2019. (DPA)

Wanted militant blows himself up in Tunisian capital

Sufi Saint Sidi Boughanem

A tourist takes a picture at the archaeological site of Carthage, near Tunis February 10, 2013. (Reuters)

Tunisians fighting to preserve cultural heritage

Tunis

Trying to reassure. Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed (C) walks with Interior Minister Hichem Fourati (L) outside the Interior Ministry headquarters near the scene of a suicide attack in the capital Tunis, June 27. (AFP)

Suicide bombings jolt Tunisia amid anguish over leader’s health