Tunis

Restoring The Hope, Dignity Ignited By The Arab Spring

Akhtar Badshah | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Youth, Arab Spring, Tunisia, Youth Unemployment, Tunis, Youth Movement, Microsoft, Social Entrepreneurship, Impact News

Over the last two days in Tunis I have met with leaders of the business community, government agencies, development agencies and young people, and they all believe that there is hope and the biggest challenge is to restore dignity.

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Arab Spring Activists Inspired to Capture Airwaves

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Egypt, Community Radio, World, Radio, Foreign Affairs, Tunis, Palestine, Libya, World News, Palestine Radio, Media News

Palestine's experience of capturing airwaves in a period of transition was of extreme interest to media activists from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen.

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The World Turns Its Back Again: Tunis 2012-Bermuda 1943

Barry Lando | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Syria, Assad, Warsaw Ghetto, Homs, Bermuda Conference, Tunis, Syria Crisis, Syria Uprising, Syria Protests, Syria Conflict, World News

Imagine if anyone with the Internet had been able to follow the massacre of the civilians in the Warsaw Ghetto. Imagine if the world had seen all that 69 years ago: the scenes we've been witnessing every day from Homs.

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TV Director In Tunisia Goes On Trial For Airing 'Persepolis'

Human Rights Watch | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Persepolis, Tunis, Human Rights, Tunisia, Persepolis Tunisia Trial, Culture News

A Tunis court announced that Nabil Karoui, director of Nessma TV, will go on trial for airing the French animated movie Persepolis, a disturbing turn for the nascent Tunisian democracy.

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The Arab Spring Has Yet to Focus on Media Freedoms

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Egypt, Jordan, Arab Spring, Al Arrabiyeh, Monopolies, Media, Tunis, Free Media, Libya, Al Jazzera, Al Ahram, World News

Did the independent media help produce the Arab Spring or did the revolutions succeed in liberating local media in the Arab world?

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First Free Arab Spring Election

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Tunis, Tunisia Vote, Tunisia Voting, Arab Spring, Tunisia, Tunisia Elections, Tunisia Elections 2011, Tunisia Free Elections, World News

TUNIS, Tunisia — The people who started the Arab Spring shared one of its earliest fruits on Sunday: a free election. Tunisians who brought down...

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Revolutionary Travel

Judie Fein | Posted 09.19.2011

About a month ago, my husband Paul and I were en route to Tunisia, which was largely calm and peaceful, to see what the revolution was like on the ground. In my experience, there is media, and then there is reality.

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What Obama Should Say

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Egypt, Tunis, US Foreign Policy, Arab Spring, Obama, Barack Obama, America, World News

When US President Barack Obama makes his scheduled speech today, he will have to deal with a totally different kind of Arab world than when he took office or when he made his famous Cairo speech.

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Adventures in Tunisia and Crowd-Funding

Aida Alami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tunis, Tunisia Protests, Ben Ali, Tunisia, Tunisia Revolution, Tunisie, World News

Berlin reporter Jabeen Bhatti and I created a project on the crowd-sourcing platform Kickstarter to help fund a trip to Tunisia to go to ground, talking to people and figuring out what is really going on, then telling those stories.

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Arab Uprising's Winners and Losers

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Youth, Arab, Bravery, Tunis, Western, People, US, Wikileaks, Dictators, Tyrants, World News

The newly found bravery of Arab youths has spread from one country to another. The right to free expression and assembly, long restricted in Arab countries, has now been extracted as a result of the sacrifices in the streets.

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A Traveler's Take on Tunisia

Ken Fish | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tunis, Romans, Phoenicians, Sidi Bou Said, Ben Ali, Tunisia, Carthage, Desert, Tourism, Travel News

It was no surprise to learn that George Lucas filmed some of the most memorable scenes from Star Wars in Tunisia: its desert landscape is indeed alien and has a stark, evocative beauty.

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Is Al Jazeera Fueling "Tunisteria"?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Let's hope that Al Jazeera's penchant for regional anarchy is tempered by cooler heads within Arab democratic dissident ranks who have far more to lose than audience share if they prematurely swallow Al Jazeera's bait.

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The Lessons of Tunisia

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tunis, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Revolution, Ben Ali, World News

Joy. Wonder. This moment, always astounding, when the power we thought eternal vacillates, cracks, crumbles like a castle made of sand.

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What's Next for Tunisia?

Haim Malka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tunis, Tunisia Riots, Tunisia Protests, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Tunisia Revolution, World News

At this point, it is hard to understand who the actors will be in determining Tunisia's future, and that makes finding partners to build that future all the more difficult.

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Former Tunisian First Lady, Despised By Nation, Draws Imelda Marcos Comparisons

AP | ELAINE GANLEY and JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

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TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisians couldn't stand her even more than they couldn't stand him. The end of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's iron-fiste...

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Marhaba Ben Ali! U.S. Ally Houses Tunisia's Dictator

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tunis, Dictator, Berlusconi, Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Morocco, France, Pakistan, Italy, U.S., Saudi Arabia, Idi Amin, Ben Ali, Nawaz Sharif, White House, Egypt, United States, Pervez Musharraf, Karima El Mahroug, Uganda, Sarcozy, Egypt Protests, World News

Good ol' Saudi Arabia. If you're a corrupt and fleeing Sunni despot, you'll always have a home in Saudi. Just ask their latest refugee, the very recently former President of Tunisia, Mr. Zine El Abedine Ben Ali.

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How an Arab Autocrat Falls

Sohrab Ahmari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: North Africa, Human Rights, Tunisia, Middle East, Sidi Bouzid, Islamism, Tunisia Uprising, Tunis, Democracy, Autocracy, Cyberactivism, Mohammad Bouazizi, Hussein Nagi Felhi, Egypt Protests, World News

As the events unfolding in Tunisia demonstrate, the bargain struck by the West with autocrats sitting atop social pressure cookers ready to erupt at any minute is a bad one.

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Why You Should Travel To Tunisia

Judie Fein | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Tunis, Tunisia, Bourguiba, Revolution, Arab, International Destinations, Tunisia Travel, Travel, Tunisia Riots, Africa Travel, Destinations, Ben Ali, World News

You certainly do not want to book a trip to Tunisia today or tomorrow. But soon, when order is restored, you will want to visit this remarkable country with its caring, concerned, brave and freedom-loving people.

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Tunisia: Social Justice or Social Media?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Zein El Abedine, Jasmine Revolution, Tunis, North Africa, Twitter, Tunisia, Algeria, Sidibouzid, Middle East, Jamal Dajani, Arab World, Facebook, Tunisia Revolution, Mohammed Bouazizi, Egypt Protests, World News

I arrived in Tunis on January 1, only a few days after a wave of rallies had erupted due to the suicide of an unemployed college graduate who torched himself after police confiscated his fruit cart.

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How Tunisian Facebookers Will Change Newsrooms

Romina Ruiz-Goiriena | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Resignation, Tunis, france24, Twitter, Tunisia Protests, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia Riots, Facebook, Egypt Protests, Media News

After weeks of unrest in Tunisia seen only through videos uploaded on Facebook, it seems as our psychological apprehension to rely on social networks as a news source will finally come to an end.

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Tunisia's Revolution Was Twitterized

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tunisia, Tunisia Protests, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunis, Twitter, Social Media, Youtube, North Africa, Middle East, Reform, Media Reform, Media Repression, Media, Al Jazeera, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Resignation, Egypt Protests, World News

In what could be a sign of how social media is reshaping politics in the Middle East and North Africa, Tunisian protesters turned to Twitter to broadcast information on their popular revolt.

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Tunisia Protests Continue Amid Calls For President's Resignation

AP/The Huffington Post | ELAINE GANLEY and BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA | Posted 05.25.2011

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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Violent anti-government protests drove Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power Friday after 23 years of iron...

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Middle East in 2011: Social Media to Take on Governments

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

By publishing online -- and dissenting in 140 characters or less -- journalists in the Middle East and North Africa are challenging dominant state institutions.

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