Young people in Tunisia are posting videos of themselves dancing to Pharrell’s Happy song as a form of defiance.
Islamists have said the dancing is just ”debauchery and moral decay” but the videos have received tens of thousands of hits and loads of support. Their coming to power heralds the death of music and dance so dancing is a really good way of challenging their regression.
In March of last year, Tunisian high school students did a protest version of the Harlem Shake pitting them against the Islamists. [Maryam Namazie] Read more
