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Mischa Benoit-Lavelle
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Mischa Benoit-Lavelle is a news editor for Tunisia Live and the English language correspondent in Tunisia for France24. He got his start covering local politics for The New Haven Advocate, and his articles and translations from French and Swedish have since appeared in numerous print and online sources. Mischa is the holder of a BA in comparative literature from the American University of Paris, speaks five languages, and is an itinerant traveler.

Mischa currently resides in Tunis, Tunisia, where he is studying Arabic and watching the emergence of the Arab Spring’s first democracy. He can be reached by email at mbenoitlavelle@gmail.com.

Blog Entries by Mischa Benoit-Lavelle

Teargas and Mirrors: Strange Days in Tunisia

(0) Comments | Posted June 18, 2012 | 1:39 PM

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One of the offending paintings: the text reads "The greatness of God," and is written in ants

It is an odd calm that has returned to Tunisia after a week of rioting, rumor and uncertainty. The foreign media have packed up their equipment...

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Video of Friday's Islamist Protests in Tunisia

(1) Comments | Posted October 19, 2011 | 5:07 PM

It appears that Tunisia's religiously-sensitive weren't content with the public apology of Nessma TV head Nebil Karoui, and they demonstrated their anger on Friday in numbers greater than the previous weekend's. After an opening prayer in and outside of the mosque Al-Fatah, near the city center, a group...

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Islamist Protests in Tunisia

(3) Comments | Posted October 13, 2011 | 6:51 PM

Tunisia is a free state, independent and sovereign: its religion is Islam, its language Arabic, and its regime the republic. -- 1st article of the Tunisian constitution.

One might think that as Tunisians prepare to write their new constitution, the most debated part of the above phrase would be...

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