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People pray at a makeshift memorial on the beach for those killed in Tunisia's latest terrorist attack. Image by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters. Tunisia, 2015.

The Terrorist Threat to Tunisia's Newborn Democracy

SOUSSE, Tunisia—Terrorism is not Tunisian, the refrain of the moment goes. Except it was on Friday. Just before noon, Seifeddine Rezgui, a 23-year-old Tunisian, pulled a Kalashnikov out of an umbrella and murdered 38 tourists on the beach here, maiming dozens of others with his rifle and grenades before being gunned down by Tunisian security forces. ISIS soon claimed responsibility for the attack, releasing photos of Rezgui wielding weapons and calling him Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani.

Four years ago, a popular revolution in Tunisia, the first of the Arab Spring’s uprisings, removed the authoritarian government of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, which had controlled the country for decades. Since then, the North African nation has been heralded as the Arab Spring’s sole success, a newborn democracy enjoying civil liberties, and political moderation and inclusion, that exist only as trampled dreams in Egypt, Libya, and Syria. But extremism is filling out the edges of this picture....

Read the full story by Pulitzer Center grantee Alice Su for The Atlantic.