A Blog by the Editor of The Middle East Journal

Putting Middle Eastern Events in Cultural and Historical Context

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Stay Back! I Have a Baguette and I'm Not Afraid to Use It!

This may deserve to be the iconic photo of the Tunisian revolt, perhaps to rank with the one man standing up to the line of tanks in Beijing during Tienanmen 1989:


(Click the pic to make it bigger.) The Boston Globe's The Big Picture Blog published a lot of the best photos from Tunisia. This is the one everybody's reproducing, but I just couldn't resist the headline above. Watch out: That thing might go off.

If bread is illegal, only outlaws will have bread. Let them eat cake, indeed.

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