Marrakech — Post-Arab Spring unrest in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt may lead to a vast "area of lawlessness" that endangers the entire region, a security expert and former Tunisian minister warned at a recent security forum in Marrakech.
"The few observers who drew the international community's attention to the unforeseeable or even serious consequences of the 'revolutionary euphoria' of 2011 for security and peace across the MENA region could not have imagined that the reality - three years on from the Arab Spring- would be even more alarming than they had predicted," former Tunisian minister Hatem Ben Salem told participants at the January 24-25 event.
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