Tunisia's most influential bloggers prepare for historic elections
Source: The Guardian
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2011-12-23 02:00:14 -0800 | political-news
Cyril Folliot/AFP For years they faced one of the most sophisticated cyber-censorship regimes in the world, hacked, shut down, trailed by secret police, savagely beaten, burgled and jailed. But Tunisian bloggers played a key role in spreading ideas, information and...
Ben Ali the bogeyman in Tunisian voter mobilization campaign
Source: NOW Lebanon
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2011-12-21 01:52:42 -0800 | political-news
The portrait of ousted dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali towering over Tunis again: the all too familiar sight is the scenario of a video campaign to spur mass turnout for Tunisia's first post-revolution polls. The video shows men, women and...
You shoot back to Tripoli to Sirte deadlock
Posted by: mus1423
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-04-07 14:46:12 -0700 | disasters-news
And 'rose to three dead and thirty wounded, according to the National Transitional Council (CNT), the budget of yesterday's fighting in Tripoli, in the district of Abu Salim, between forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and the new government. The victims...
Police fires Tear Gas on Protesters in Tunisia
Posted by: rsa76
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-03-11 22:09:05 -0700 | disasters-news
Tunisian police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who on Friday were about to march back to the television station that broadcast the controversial film.Witnesses said protesters stopped the authorities when they moved closer to the Nessema TV station in...
the film Persepolis causes controversy in Tunisia
Posted by: bacham
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-07-26 20:56:16 -0700 | disasters-news
The airing of Persepolis on Friday by private TV Nessma, a prize winning movie in the festival de Cannes, has caused controversy and some violence in Tunisia on sunday. The broadcasting of the movie was followed by a debate on...
Tunisian police stop hardline attack on TV station
Posted by: kingston23
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-04-17 09:25:23 -0700 | disasters-news
Police in Tunisia failed to stop an attack on a television station that aired the award-winning film Persepolis, considered blasphemous by some Islamists. Security forces used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who gathered outside Nessma TV after responding...
Tunisia: Hundreds Of Islamists Storm University Over Hijab Ban
Posted by: kingston23
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-04-17 09:25:36 -0700 | disasters-news
About 200 people protested with banners at the University of Sousse, Tunisia, the refusal to register a woman wearing a veil covering her entire face (niqab).The director, Moncef Abdul Jalil, said the protest caused panic among students and staff.The Ministry...
Tunisia: Chaos at the University
Posted by: bacham
Sūsah :: Tunisia | updated 2012-07-26 21:02:16 -0700 | disasters-news
A group of Salafis (Religiously ultra-conservative), around 200 persons, have attacked today October 8 th the university of Letters pf Sousse, at 180 km from Tunis. They were protesting against the administration's decision not to allow a student wearing a...
Arab Art as an Early Indicator of Revolution
Source: Newyork Times
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2011-12-06 05:24:16 -0800 | political-news
Newly deposed Arab dictators might have been well advised to have paid attention to the works of their home-grown artists more closely: Many visualized the revolutions in their countries long before they happened. Take the photograph by the Moroccan Hicham...
Tunisia: The former Libyan PM sentenced six months in prison for illegal entry in Tunisia
Posted by: rsa76
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-03-11 21:15:09 -0700 | disasters-news
The former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi sentenced Sept. 22 to six months in prison for illegal entry in Tunisia Tuesday acquitted on appeal by the Tunisian justice system, which has already cleared two weeks ago for the same reasons...
Italian police clash with migrants
Posted by: lethibichlan
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-07-27 06:17:53 -0700 | disasters-news
Today, the island of Lampedusa, south Italy there was a violent clash between police and illegal immigrants from North Africa are detained on the island. The clash came a day after the migrant camp fire burned to protest the forced...
Libya's former prime minister 'al-Baghdadi' arrested in Tunisia
Posted by: faraway
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-07-28 03:58:20 -0700 | disasters-news
Baghdadi Mahmoudi, former Prime Minister of Muammar Gaddafi, has been arrested on Wednesday by the Tunisian authorities in Tunisia, reports Al Arabiya. TheTelevision channel refers to his sources, without naming them.In the Tunisian government is not able to confirm to...
A dozen injured in clashes between police and Tunisians
Posted by: rsa76
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-03-11 22:11:40 -0700 | disasters-news
Clashes between riot police and hundreds of Tunisian immigrants protesting Wednesday in the small Italian island of Lampedusa against their conditions of reception were a dozen injured, said the Italian media.Police equipped with helmets and shields clubbed immigrants who set...
Five Tunisian attempt suicide after stopping a competition
Posted by: ZohaibAnwer
Tunis :: Tunisia | updated 2012-04-10 11:06:27 -0700 | disasters-news
Five Tunisian school teachers attempted suicide in Kaserin (center-west) by failing to approve a contest for a seat of the state, concordant sources said Saturday. The five men, who challenged the results of such opposition as being "unfair", tried to...
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