The best news of my day. Slim Amamou tweeted “I am free” at approximately 11:45pm Tunis time.
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Month: January 2011
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Ben Ali to Step Down in 2014
Not the news everyone had hoped for, but news nonetheless. An email from Youssef Gaigi: Today’s speech shows definitely a major shift in Tunisia’s history. Ben Ali talked for the third time in the past month to the people. Something unprecedented, we barely knew this guy. Ben Ali talked in the Tunisian dialect instead of […]
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Letters from Tunisia
Since the protests began in Tunisia two weeks ago, I’ve been following the events closely – mostly via Twitter, because the mainstream media was so late to catch on, and also via my Tunisian friends on Facebook (some of whom I know personally, others of whom I’ve never met). In an event like this, with […]