
The Dictator’s Last Calls, an animated film by BBC News Arabic, reconstructs the last hours of former Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. Ben Ali remained at the helm of the country until January 2011, when a wave of protests forced his resignation and exile to Saudi Arabia. The unreleased recordings in this documentary reveal the phone calls that helped enshrine the end of a 23-year dictatorship and unleash a wave of revolutions across the Middle East.