Photojournalist Killed in Protests

Photograph: Corentin Fohlen/AFP/Getty Images, for The Guardian

French photographer Lucas Mebrouk Dolega was killed when police fired tear gas during the street protests in Tunis. The photographer, aged 32, was in Tunis for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) capturing the unrest, when he sustained fatal head injuries from a gas canister that was fired at crowds of demonstrators. Below is a collection of his final shots.

DOLEGA'S LAST(ING) IMAGES:

Enough is enough, numbers speak on Avenue Habib Bourguiba.

No longer cautious to show emotion in central Tunis.

Flailing from tear gas police aimed at protesters.

Developments too overwhelming for some.

Tear gas plumes into Tunis side streets

Why There's No Mosque in Port el Kantaoui

With leader of a Tunisian-banned Islamist party, Rached Ghannouchi returning to Tunisia in a couple of weeks, how will this shake up the slant of the opposition.

Tunisia's closest allies have, in recent years, been France and the United States. What the Tunisian Government under Ben-Ali offered to these nations was its heavy-handed treatment of what it saw as Islamic Fundamentalism. This was a point alluded to by David Kirkpatrick in his article for the New York Times on the 12^th January, where he writes of Tunisia: ‎'United States officials gave it high marks for its aggressive persecution of terrorism suspects'.

In Ben Ali's regime it was not encouraged for males to have full beards, for Muslims to pray at 3am prayers or to own what the regime saw as excessive amounts of Islamic literature. A student in Sousse told me how in 2009 one of his colleagues, a devout Muslim, went to 3am prayers and was never seen again. Unconfirmed reports are that the student was seized by undercover police. He is still missing. Under Ben Ali, Muslims were treading on eggshells. With the removal of the President Muslims will enjoy a freedom that they have not had for a quarter of a decade: to go to prayers when they want, wear what they believe right and follow their religion without restriction of practice. The relief that many practising Muslims will feel has brought about speculation that an Islamic party may come to the forefront as a contender for ruling the new Tunisia.

Tunisia has been screaming for freedom: freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of religious expression. What would an Islamic Government mean for Tunisia?

TRIPLE WORD SCORE at Enfidha Airport

Enfidha Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's newest International Airport welcomed its first landings in the Spring last year. The airport at Enfidha, located between the two well-established tourist resorts of Sousse and Hammamet, was the new talking point of the Tunisian economy.

Tunisia's main charter airport, Habib Bourguiba International, located in nearby Monastir, proudly holds the name of the country's first President under Tunisian independence. Yet, on the 15^th November 2011, one day after Tunisia's leader fled the country 'Enfidha Zine El Abidine Ben Ali International Airport', had lost its ring. Letters were plucked off the airport building this weekend. With the removal of every vowel comes the question of renaming... 'Mohamed Bouazizi International Airport', perhaps?