The mosques of Kairouan attract pilgrims from around the Islamic world. The banners of Tunisia’s New Era Day flutter before one of them in this image. They bear the likeness of four-term president Ben Ali, whose government mandates separation between church and state. Islamic fundamentalism is not welcomed here. (Ben Ali would be ousted during his fifth term and driven into exile.) By overlaying the dome of the mosque with the political iconography of the president, I underscore this point.