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“When you walked around the first floor of the Capitol, you might have seen all of the stars, or the stars in the Governors Reception Room, or the M’s on the railing, or L’Etoile du Nord, or the Civil War generals and figures on the second floor all being Minnesota,” he said.

But L’Étoile du Nord is far more than a cafe.

Noureddine El Ati, a Tunisian actor and stage director who founded L’Étoile du Nord in 1997, says it is unlike other theaters in North Africa.

The Théâtre de l’Étoile du Nord — the North Star Theater — is the place in the Tunisian capital to beat the Muslim fast.

L’Étoile du Nord, always a place for the free spirited, was a gathering place for protesters and a shelter from the tear gas in those days.