BRUSSELS (AP) — The world’s largest pilots’ group urged Tunisian authorities Monday to reinstate the captain of an airliner that […]
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Tunisia: Facebook user jailed for spreading rumors liable to disrupt public order
On Saturday, July 4, 2009, The 8th Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance in Tunis has condemned a Tunisian professor, Dr Khedija Arfaoui, to eight months in prison for spreading rumors, on the social networking website Facebook, liable to disrupt public order.
Saudia Arabia leads Arab regimes in internet censorship
Saudi Arabia leads the field among Arab regimes that practise internet censorship, blocking website content ranging from pornography to politics, […]
Tunisia: Behind Tunisia’s ‘Economic Miracle’: Inequality and criminalization of protest
Tunisia’s ‘economic miracle’ has not benefited all, nor has it been matched by greater enjoyment of human rights. This was […]
Obama : “I got the sucker…” [le buzz de la mouche]
Barack Obama after killing a fly : “That was pretty impressive, wasn’t it? I got the sucker,” … It’s right there. Do you want to film that? There it is.”
Herdict: a useful tool to report censorship is now in arabic
The web site from Harvard’s Berkman Center called “Herdict,” which allows worldwide internet users to report about web sites being […]
Wolfram Alpha: Google killer?
No, Wolfram Alpha end result is completely different from Google’s. Wolfram Alpha is as its tagline says: “a computational knowledge […]
Apple “Get a Mac” Web ad: First In Customer Experience (New York Times website)
Encore une pub qui fait davantage de pub au support que l’inverse.
Si toutes les pubs étaient aussi intelligentes, Nawaat devrait à son tour se faire de la pub :)
Apple “Get a Mac” Web ad: First In Customer Experience (New York Times website)
Dictatorship, Tunisia’s undeserved fate
At a press conference on May 4, Naji Bghouri, the head of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT), was prevented by pro-government journalists from finishing comments in which he mentioned of declining press freedoms in Tunisia. The episode showed that the regime of President Zine al-Abedine ben Ali had lost patience even with a body that it had helped establish in January 2008 to cut the grass out from under the feet of the country’s most critical journalists.
Torture : Quand ça part en vrille lors du prepcom de Durban II entre la présidente Libyenne de la séance et A. el Hagoug Gomma
Video : Durban Review Conference
Preparatory Committee, Friday, 17th April 2009
Chairperson : Najat Al-Hajjaji, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Speaker : Ashraf el Hagoug Gomma (for UN Watch)
Arab censors swim against the information tides
It was supposed to be a reform of a bad piece of legislation that not only muzzled the press but […]
Tunisia: Blogger’s home raided, laptop and CDs robbed
The house of the Tunisian journalist and blogger Zied el-Heni has been raided last night (April 10, 2009). In a […]
Video documentary – Carthage: The Roman Holocaust
This is an excellent documentary with the purpose of addressing a story which is yet to be fully told, and […]
Historic Growth Trend of Tunisia’s Economy, 1962 – 2007
Since the 60s Tunisia economic performance has been following a relatively growing trend. The strong human capital base, as well […]
Tunisie: Documentaire vidéo reconstituant le crash de Tuninter 1153
Documentaire vidéo reconstituant le crash de Tuninter 1153
Une version récente de Quicktime est nécessaire pour visualiser la vidéo.
(L’équipe de Nawaat.org remercie Elias)
Algerians Vote In Tunisia
First on the list is Algeria, which is scheduled to hold a presidential vote a few days from now on April 9th. After nearly a decade of an atrocious civil war that broke out in 1992 after the country’s secular general intervened to stop an Islamic fundamentalist party from winning the democratically held national elections. Over 200,000 Algerians were killed in that war, often in brutal fashion by the Islamists.
Video Interview: Aljazeera’s Web-inspired business strategy
I first met Mohamed Nanabhay, the 29-year-old South African, during the 3rd Annual Aljazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar, in 2007. Mohamed is a prominent blogger, a friend and a colleague from Global Voices covering Qatar where he is based. Mohamed is the former Aljazeera head of New Media and the mastermind of the Aljazeera’s successful invasion of the Web.
Videos: Obama ignoring Sarkozy… Sarkozy insulting Obama!
While posing for the closing protocol picture during the G20 meeting in London, Obama ignored Sarkozy. Not surprisingly Sarko insulted Obama. He said CON in French, meaning ASSHOLE in English. Here’s the translation for the French reporter’s comments: Behind the protocol of a family picture, there are always signs to read. […]
