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Tunisian rapper and musician Hamada Ben Amor, known by his stage name "El General", plays with a football with his son in Sfax, southeast of the capital, on November 5, 2020. - Few of the pro-democracy protesters who took the Middle East by storm a decade ago had a flag to raise or a leader to follow. But all of them had a song to sing. The then-21-year-old rapper had released his song "Rais Lebled (President of the country, or Mr. President)" on November 7, the anniversary of Ben Ali's rise to power in 1987. The dark and gritty rap song by "El General" paints a damning picture of the state of the country under Zine El Abidine ben Ali, with this punchline: "Mr President, your people are dying." (Photo by ANIS MILI / AFP) (Photo by ANIS MILI/AFP via Getty Images)