In a Mining Region, Lingering Echoes of Tunisia’s Uprising
“West of Life” looks at the troubled history of a region in Tunisia where protests by miners preceded the uprising that led to the Arab Spring.
Two years ago, Zied Ben Romdhane — who was originally trained as a businessman in Tunis until he found his voice as a photographer in 2008 — started to notice the activity. And he began to wonder about the root of the labor tensions in a country where the unemployment rate remains over 15 percent