And one of those killed in the bombing was a well-established Arab grape vendor, one of three brothers who were earning a living in the market.JOSEPH LERNERJerusalemDirty moneySIR Your leader and article on money laundering (July 26th) contribute to raising international awareness of this problem.
This set was 600 feet in length and featured "a steam train, an Ajax traction engine, three cranes, an open two-horse carriage, four horse-drawn carts, five dressing horses and grooms, nine pack donkeys and mules, as well as market stalls, Arab-clad vendors and room for 300 costumed extras".
They have been in abundance in the Arab revolt, from the vendor who set off the Tunisian tumult to the pro-democracy demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Cairo, to the 70-something American woman defending her apartment with her rolling pin and big knife.
IT IS sadly appropriate that Mohamad Bouazizi, the Tunisian whose self-immolation triggered the first protest of the Arab spring, should have been a street vendor, selling food.
The onset of the protests was strangely similar to the way the self-immolation of a Tunisian street-vendor in 2011 sparked the Arab spring.
But he and other Arab business owners -- including dozens of coffee vendors who were returning to the 30th Street garage as Mr. Shirinzada spoke -- say many or even most of their patrons go out of their way to show support.
That movement emerged amid the Arab spring uprisings that began in Tunisia when vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire after police confiscated his wares.
ISN'T it interesting that the Arab awakening began in Tunisia with a fruit vendor who was harassed by police for not having a permit to sell food — just at the moment when world food prices hit record highs?
The Tunisian street vendor who lit the spark of the Arab conflagration did not belong to this growing middle.
The Arab Spring began in Tunisia in 2010 when a street vendor set himself ablaze in protest against the government.
