BLOUIN ARTINFO
By Shane Ferro
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| Demonstrators rioting in Tunis, Tunisia |
TUNISIA --- Artists in Tunisia have begun
circulating a petition calling for international solidarity from arts organizations in condemning the country's government for censoring an art exhibition (10th edition of
Printemps des Arts) and siding with Salafist Islamic fundamentalists following
riots incited by an art fair in the capital city. The petition, however, is not directed at the fundamentalists that incited the violence, but the moderate Islamist government that has since backed the Salafists and shut down the fair, even after many of the artists began receiving death threats via phone, text message, and social networking sites. [
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