Tunisia

Tunisian Official Criticizes Muslim Attire

by Haitham Sabbah December 30, 2005

وزير الشؤون الدينية التونسي: حجاب المرأة دخيل ونشاز Ùˆ”لباس طائفي”. اعتبر وزير الشؤون الدينية التونسي المرأة التي ترتدي الحجاب بأنها “نشاز”ØŒ بحسبانه مظهرا “غير مألوف” إلى جانب أنه “زي طائفي”. وقال الوزير أبو بكر الأخزوري في حوار أجرته صحيفة “الصباح” التونسية الثلاثاء 27-12-2005 في رد على سؤال حول العودة النسبية لظاهرة الحجاب في تونس، إن [...]

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U.S. Ranks Sixth Among Countries Jailing Journalists

by Haitham Sabbah December 15, 2005

The United States has tied with Myanmar (the former Burma) for sixth place among countries that are holding the most journalists behind bars, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Each country is jailing five journalists. The United States is holding four Iraqi journalists in detention centers in Iraq and one [...]

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A phalanx of secret police at Expression Under Repression

by Haitham Sabbah November 19, 2005

Submitted By: amichel Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman hosted "Expression Under Repression," a workshop at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (for more on that, please check out these blog posts).  Rebecca and Ethan are co-founders of Global Voices, a blog that features citizen journalists from around the world.  They also maintain [...]

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False Freedom

by Haitham Sabbah November 17, 2005

Human Rights Watch released its long-awaited report on Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa. This report examines Internet trends and policies in the Middle East and North Africa region as they affect freedom of expression, focusing particularly on Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. Human Rights Watch selected these four countries for closer [...]

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The World Summit on the Information Society

by Haitham Sabbah November 15, 2005

Dispatch from Tunis: The Civil Society Summit That Wasn�t Today as a global summit on the Internet got underway, the Tunisian government did all it could to smother a local summit on the same topic. One might think that a world conference on improving global Internet access represents a prime chance for the government to [...]

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Tunisia: Hunger Strike and Censorship

by Haitham Sabbah October 18, 2005

Neila Charchour Hachicha writes that the PLM’s web site, which was the unique political website accessible in Tunisia has been censored today. “However we want you to get the declaration of the 7 political personnalities who undertook today October 18th 2005 an unllimited hunger strike. We need the help of all friends to spread the [...]

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Yezzi on Al Jazeera TV

by Haitham Sabbah October 17, 2005

Here is the link to the transcript (Arabic) of Arab TV Al Jazeera program about www.yezzi.org. The title of the program was “What’s behind this news: Tunisians are protesting on the Net” and the subject was: “Can a virtual action on the Net have an impact on the real political life?” (and there is also [...]

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Yezzi – Fock: Tunisian online protest (now blocked)

by Haitham Sabbah October 5, 2005

Via: Global Voices Online Rebecca MacKinnon As Tunisia prepares to host the controversial World Summit on the Information Society in November, Tunisian opposition activist Neila Charchour Hachicha informs Global Voices that the online freedom of speech protest site launched by Tunisians on Monday, www.yezzi.org has already been blocked by the Tunisian authorities. The online protest, [...]

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Tunisian Plane Crash Near Sicily

by Haitham Sabbah August 6, 2005

A Tunisian passenger plane carrying 39 people crash-landed in the Mediterranean Sea today while trying to make an emergency landing in Sicily because of engine trouble, and 19 people were killed, while 20 people survived and were being taken off rescue boats. Officials ruled out terrorism act and said that the plane had engine problems [...]

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Arab Discriminates Against Women. Why Is That So?

by Haitham Sabbah December 1, 2004

Last week, Guardian-organised event at which more than 100 young British Muslims were brought together at University College London. The delegates came from all walks of life, and held a wide range of views. The one thing that came across very clearly was that the media are often wrong to refer to “the Muslim community”, [...]

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