Sit-inners have been camping out for a week to put pressure on representatives of the National Constituent Assembly concerning the draft law on the provisional organization of public authorities. There is a wide range of demands, the most important of which …
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Tunisia, Youth | Tagged Tunisia | Leave a commentTunisians are keeping an eye on the representatives they elected on October 23. Occupy Bardo is a open sit-in held in front of the National Constituent Assembly premises, seat of the former Camber of Deputies to demand transparency of the …
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Education, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Tunisia, Youth | Tagged Tunisia | 1 CommentOn October 23, Millions of Tunisians lined up at local schools turned into polling stations to cast their ballots. They did not mind waiting for hours and were happy to vote for the first time. Many brought their children to …
Posted in Democracy, Tunisia | Tagged Tunisia | 1 CommentGod as an old bearded men: For some devout Muslims, a film accused of blasphemy caused angry protests in Tunisia. The riots were directed against a television station that broadcast to the French-Iranian film “Persepolis.” ,and today they hit the …
Posted in Arabs, Art, Censorship, Comics, Creativity, Education, Entertainment, Film, Iran, Tunisia | Tagged Censorship, Tunisia | 3 CommentsDear All, It’s very difficult to see how difficult it is for some Arabs to travel from one Arab country to another. It’s very unfortunate to experience that. The Tunisian Ministry of Interiors rejected the Palestinian bloggers’ VISAs, these Palestinian …
Posted in Palestine, Tunisia | Tagged arab bloggers, bloggers | Leave a commentTunisian penal code 230 criminalizes homosexual activity with up to three years of imprisonment even if the actual implementation of this law is a very remote possibility. In a famous case in 1993, Tunisian appeal court did not grant a …
Posted in Civil Rights, General, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Sex, Tunisia, Youth | 7 CommentsHosni Mubarak, the ousted president of Egypt who ruled for 30 years, is said to have accumulated $70 billion from corruption and Egypt has been under Emergency Law as long. Under the law, the police power was extended, constitutional rights …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Awareness, Bahrain, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Education, Egypt, Events, Freedom of Speech, Iraq, Jordan, Kurdistan, Kurds, Libya, Media, Middle East, Morocco, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen | Leave a commentA number of Tunisians gathered today in front of the Municipal Theatre of Tunis and then went to Ben Arous, on the outskirts of Tunis, where family Yahiaoui lives, to pay tribute to Zouhair Yahiaoui, the first “martyr for internet …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Civil Rights, Countries/Regions, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Tunisia | Tagged Zouhair Zouheir Yahiaoui Tunezine | Leave a commentThe second sit-in staged in Al Kasbah government square by hundreds of people who came from various cities on February 20 and were joined by thousands of protesters during the day was lifted or rather “suspended” on Friday, March 4. …
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Democracy, Demonstrations, Freedom of Speech, General, Middle East, Politics, Tunisia, Youth | 2 CommentsRevolution; the so-called, shook the most of Islamic world monarchies. Everyone in Pakistan is eying for the same here. Many bloggers, columnists, journalists, and writers of various domains are arguing on the premise of its possibility. Well, I am not …
Posted in Libya, Pakistan, Politics, Ridiculous, Tunisia | Tagged Benazir Bhutto, Egypt, Gaddafi, Gaddafi Stadium, Libya, Libyan Revolution, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Pakistan, Revolution in Pakistan, Revolutionary movement, Tunisian revolution, Yemen | Leave a comment