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Beginning in December 2010, a series of ongoing
protests in the streets of Tunisia escalated to
the point where President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali - who had
ruled the country for 23 years - at first declared
he would not seek re-election, then fled the country on January
14th. Protesters' frustrations with high unemployment,
inflation and corruption drove them to the streets after a pivotal
event, when a young Tunisian vendor named Mohamed
Bouazizi set himself on fire after police confiscated his produce
cart. Bouazizi died of his injuries days later. As Tunisia struggles to move past the rioting,
looting and score-settling that has marked the political
transition, there was a growing sense Tuesday that it will
be difficult for the interim government to hold together
and pave the way toward elections expected within six to
seven months.

After the initial exhilaration of last week,
when a populist uprising ousted President Zine El Abidine
Ben Ali after 23 years in power and sent him fleeing to
Saudi Arabia -- sounding a warning bell for other political
strongmen in the region -- many are fretting about what
it ultimately meant. Collected here are images of the turmoil
in Tunisia over the past couple of weeks.