Just weeks ago, the idea that a popular revolution might drive one of the Arab world's profligate and profiteering autocrats from power seemed impossible. In fact, as Christopher Dickey and Babak Dehghanpisheh report in this week's NEWSWEEK, long-serving Tunisian ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was slow to realize what was happening. But demonstrators have driven Ben Ali and his family from power, and are working to purge his allies from government. As the results reverberate across the Middle East, frightening mafia states in Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, here are images of the historic protest taken by Alex Majoli on assignment for NEWSWEEK.
