Category: w-Journalism

Leena Ben Mhenni

Leena Ben Mhenni

| 07 October 2011 | 2 Comments

The name “Leena Ben Mhenni” has recently spread like wildfire across the national and international stage, due to the 27 year-old Tunisian activist’s nomination for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.  Ben Mhenni, however, is no recent addition to the public realm, and she has participated in the online activist culture for several years.  Her first post [...]

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Tarek Kahlaoui

Tarek Kahlaoui

| 23 September 2011 | 1 Comment

Tarek Kahlaoui in an assistant professor of Islamic art and Islamic history at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He focuses on Islamic cartography, urbanism, and codicology, and he has taken part in excavations in Islamic and ancient sites in Tunisia. Kahlouai has lectured in various countries, including the US, Italy, Morocco, Switzerland and Montreal. He has [...]

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Olfa Youssef

Olfa Youssef

| 12 September 2011 | 0 Comments

Olfa Youssef is a Tunisian writer specializing in linguistics, psychology, and Islamic sciences.  Olfa Youssef chose to have her PhD on a very critical subject, “the plurality of meanings of the Qur’an.” Olfa Youssef was not just a scholar, she was also a public figure with several religious programs on national TV and radio, where she [...]

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Samir Feriani

Samir Feriani

| 31 August 2011 | 0 Comments

Samir Feriani is a high-positioned police officer who worked at the training center of the Tunisian anti-espionage services. He was arrested on May 29th, 2011 by members affiliated with the Ministry of Interior. Prior to his sudden arrest, Feriani had published a letter in the Tunisian independent newspapers Expert and L’Audace addressed to the current Minister [...]

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Bassem Bouguerra

Bassem Bouguerra

| 24 August 2011 | 0 Comments

On his website http://bouguerra.org, Bassem Bouguerra describes himself as a “Revolutionary by nature and a Software Engineer by accident.”  The 30 year-old Tunisian blogger works as a Software Architect at Yahoo and currently lives in San Francisco, where he is an active member of the Tunisian Bay Area community. Bougerra’s journey into the blogosphere began [...]

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Emna Ben Jemaa

Emna Ben Jemaa

| 24 August 2011 | 0 Comments

Emna Ben Jemaa is a controversial young Tunisian blogger, as well as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Time University in Tunis.  She began blogging in 2005 and was quickly drawn into the blogging community.  In an interview conducted by Common Ground News, Ben Jemaa stated, “My window to the world, my escape and even [...]

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Khmais Boubtan

Khmais Boubtan

| 06 July 2011 | 0 Comments

A Tunisian TV reporter, who has been working for the local radio of Tataouin and the Tunisian national TV. After the Tunisian Revolution, he became  the national TV first reporter.  He even made it into the Libyan territories where the situation is very dangerous . Boubtan has a very unique style while delivering the news [...]

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Mohamed Soufian Ben Farhat

Mohamed Soufian Ben Farhat

| 09 May 2011 | 9 Comments

A  Tunisian journalist and writer born in 1959 who currently works as the editor of LA PRESSE (Tunisian newspaper issued in French language).  He is a graduate of public law in political science and has an advanced studies diploma in Italian language, civilization and communication. Recently he was one of the faces regularly appearing on [...]

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Taoufik Ben Brik

Taoufik Ben Brik

| 04 May 2011 | 0 Comments

A journalist and a writer. He is one of the Ben Ali’s opponents who resisted and suffered as a consequence. On April 3rd, 2000; he went on a 42 day hunger strike denouncing the violation of human rights and freedom of speech. Author of many critical writings, his last book, published 3 months after the [...]

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Slim Amamou

Slim Amamou

| 04 May 2011 | 1 Comment

Slim Amamou is a Tunisian blogger, activist and computer programmer. He was born in 1977 and is best known for his resistance to the Ben Ali regime and anti-censorship stances. Amamou also participated in the founding of the Tunisian Pirate Party. Amamou’s nickname “Slim404” reflects his opposition to the internet censorship present during the Ben [...]

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