How A Five-Year-Old Foreign Film (A Cartoon, No Less) Sparked A Free-Speech Fight In Tunisia

“On Thursday, Tunisian courts will hand down a verdict in the public prosecution of Nabil Karoui, chief of popular Tunisian broadcaster Nessma TV, for airing [Marjane Satrapi’s film Persepolis]. The verdict will say a lot about the future of freedom of expression in the very country whose citizens kicked off the Arab Spring a year and a half ago.”