khubzism

English

Alternative forms

• Khubzism

Etymology

Arabic خُبْز (ḵubz, “bread”) +‎ -ism, in the idea of bread and circuses.

Noun

khubzism (uncountable)

1. The repression of political parties, human rights, and the press in Tunisia under President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
   • 2011, Peter Mansfield, History of the Middle East, 2nd edition, London: Penguin Books, page 369:

     Tunisians, who boasted the Arab world's highest literacy rate and its largest middle class, were subdued by a system they called Khubzism ...