Tag: politics

Arabloggers 2011: Tunisian Voices

Post author By Jillian
Post date October 3, 2011
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Tunisian bloggers & Politics, featuring Riadh Guerfali (@Astrubaal), Amira Yahyaoui (@mira404), Tarek Kahlaoui (@t_kahlaoui), Mehdi Lamloum (@MehdiLamloum) and Slim Amamou (@Slim404), moderated by Malek Khadraoui. The panelists spoke in French and Arabic, so all quotes below are an approximation. Some background: Tunisia is preparing to write its constitution, and both political parties and independent “lists” […]

Tags Amira Yahyaoui, Bizerte, bloggers, constitutional assembly, free expression, independent, internet censorship, Malek Khadraoui, Mehdi Lamloum, Mokhtar Yahyaoui, politics, Riadh Guerfali, Tarek Kahlaoui, Tunisia, Tunisian bloggers, Tunisian constitution, Tunisian revolution

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Restoring Sanity: More Media Than Politics

Post author By Jillian
Post date November 2, 2010
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This past weekend, as many of you already know, I traveled to Washington, D.C. for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. I had purchased plane tickets barely twenty minutes after the event was announced, honestly, along with a few friends and colleagues. I couldn’t resist – after wasting a Saturday […]

Tags Jon Stewart, politics, Rally to Restore Sanity, Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Stephen Colbert, Washington DC