“I’ve Never Lived In A Democracy And I’m 51 Years Old.”

Squirreled away in reports on the political turmoil in Tunisia are a few mentions of cartoonist and caricaturist Lofti Ben Sassi, an outspoken critic of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and an employee of state-run newspaper La Presse. In addition to supplying the above quote, which has been pulled out by a couple of articles as one typical of the wave of feelings being experienced by citizens of that mostly genteel and placid-seeming country, Ben Sassi was also part of a journalistic uprising at La Presse where the longtime, state-supporting managing editor was driven out in favor of an editorial committee of which he was a part. Ben Sassi was the one who greeted that editor when he came into work despite warnings about the new situation, one of the few newspaper cartoonists in history to essentially fire his editor.
 
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