You are here: Fairness.com > Resources > Africa > North Africa > Tunisia

Tunisia

Search only Tunisia, and everything underneath:

Articles and Resources

Date	Fairness.com Resource	Read it at:
Oct 22, 2011	Financing Questions Shadow Tunisian Vote, First of Arab Spring QUOTE: [Tunisian] Liberals, facing an expected defeat by the moderate Islamist party Ennahda, charge that it has leapt ahead with financial support from Persian Gulf allies. Some Islamists and residents of the impoverished interior, meanwhile, fault the liberals, saying they relied on money from the former dictator’s business elite. And all sides gawk at the singular spectacle of an expatriate businessman who made a fortune in Libyan oil and returned home after the revolution to spend much of it building a major political party.	New York Times
May 25, 2011	Chasing Riches From Africa to Europe and Finding Only Squalor QUOTE: Experts say thousands more — many of whom have been moving around North Africa trying to get to Europe for years, including Somalis, Eritreans, Senegalese and Nigerians — are likely to follow, sure that a better life awaits them. But for Mr. Jallow and for many others who arrived before them, often after days at sea without food or water, Europe has offered hardships they never imagined.	New York Times
Apr 22, 2011	Lies and Videotape (Op-Ed) QUOTE: For most authoritarian states, state news media, especially television, have helped leaders stay in power by creating a parallel reality for their populations and depriving dissenters of a wider audience.	New York Times
Mar 09, 2011	Revolts Raise Fear of Migration in Europe QUOTE: Morocco, Tunisia and particularly Libya sometimes used brutal tactics to keep immigrants from ever getting near European shores... In a report published in 2009, Human Rights Watch said that migrants who eventually made it to Malta and Italy described being beaten and robbed of valuables and their documents while in detention in Libya.	New York Times
Jan 29, 2011	Arab media revolution spreading change QUOTE: Egyptians have overcome their fear of the police state....There is a direct line between this revolt and the Arab media revolution launched 15 years ago. One might even argue it is the inevitable result.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jan 14, 2011	Joy as Tunisian President Flees Offers Lesson to Arab Leaders QUOTE: The protests’ success gripped a region whose residents have increasingly complained of governments that seem incapable of meeting their demands and are bereft of any ideology except perpetuating power. The combustible mix that inspired them — economic woes and revulsion at corruption and repression — seemed to echo in so many other countries in the Middle East...	New York Times
Jan 13, 2011	Behind Tunisia Unrest, Rage Over Wealth of Ruling Family QUOTE: summer getaway of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his large extended family, many of whom have built vast beachfront mansions here with the wealth they have amassed during his years in power. But their new and conspicuous riches, partly exposed in a detailed cable by the American ambassador and made public by WikiLeaks, have fueled an extraordinary extended uprising by Tunisians who blame corruption among the elite for the joblessness afflicting their country.	New York Times
May 04, 2010	Tearing Away the Veil QUOTE: Through a legal ban, French parliamentarians want to uphold a principle that should apply to all: the visibility of the face in the public sphere, which is essential to our security and is a condition for living together. A few extremists are contesting this obvious fact by using our democratic liberties as an instrument against democracy. We have to tell them no.	New York Times
Apr 15, 2010	The Living and the Dead QUOTE: a clear demarcation line separates regions able to look forward, even over history’s wounds, and those unable to escape the clutches of the dead. Yehuda Amichai, the fine Israeli poet, once observed of Jerusalem that it is “the only city in the world where the right to vote is granted even to the dead.” The Middle East holds pride of place when it comes to morbid retrospection.	New York Times
Oct 10, 2007	When US-made 'censorware' ends up in iron fists: Despite Burma's record of repression, it's probably legal for American companies to sell Internet filters there, export lawyers say. But is it ethical? QUOTE: Absence of federal regulation has allowed so-called censorware of at least four California companies to end up in the hands of foreign governments shown to block citizens' access to political, religious, and other websites.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 10, 2007	Judge Orders U.S. Not to Transfer Tunisian Detainee QUOTE: A federal district judge has ordered the government not to transfer a Tunisian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to his home country, over fears that he would be tortured or killed. The move marks the first time a court has prevented U.S. officials from making such a transfer and is the first ruling in favor of an individual detainee's rights at the detention facility since Congress restricted court oversight of the detainees.	Washington Post
May 18, 2007	Internet Increasingly Censored The first comprehensive global survey of Internet filtering shows that online repression is on the rise worldwide. QUOTE: "Over the course of five years, we've gone from just a few places doing state-based technical filtering, like China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, to more than two dozen," says John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.	Technology Review
Oct 28, 2006	Taking Terror Fight to N. Africa Leads U.S. to Unlikely Alliances QUOTE: quandaries facing the United States as it extends its fight against Islamic terrorism to remote parts of the globe. In its search for allies in an unstable region, the U.S. government reached out to Libya -- then still officially designated a state sponsor of terrorism -- and to other countries it has condemned for abusing human rights.	Washington Post
Dec 22, 2005	Wary of Dissent, Tunisia Makes War on the Web: Despite Country's Relative Openness, Internet Postings Landing Some Critics in Jail QUOTE: Tunisian security officials are making war on the Internet to prevent critics from using it to launch attacks on the government and Ben Ali, who has been in power for 18 years.	Washington Post
Jul 26, 2005	U.S. Pushes Anti-Terrorism in Africa: Under Long-Term Program, Pentagon to Train Soldiers of 9 Nations QUOTE: ...some of the governments the U.S. military is working with have embraced counterterrorism as a way to stifle legitimate dissent and Muslim groups...	Washington Post
Jan 02, 2005	The War Inside the Arab Newsroom QUOTE: Beyond Al-Rashed's criticism of Islamic fundamentalists, the main target of his wrath is the Arab media....he thinks his competition is not just misguided but actively dangerous. "The region is being filled with inaccuracies and partial truths...I think people will always make good judgments if they have the right information and the whole information. What we lack right now is the truth and information."	New York Times
Nov 10, 2001	Longer Visa Waits for Arabs; Stir Over U.S. Eavesdropping QUOTE: ...pro-immigration groups and organizations representing American Muslims said the new requirements amounted to profiling by religion or nationality, a shift to methods they called antithetical to American values....Robert E. Hirshon, the president of the American Bar Association, said that the new eavesdropping regulation clearly violated the Constitution's guarantees...	New York Times
Jul 01, 2001	'Jihadistan' QUOTE: QUOTE: Religious fanaticism.... when it merges with economic and cultural despair....the world's first "virtual nation," perhaps best called "Jihadistan." They recognize no borders save those of the Umma, the Islamic world...	Washington Law & Politics

Please send your comments and suggestions to the Webmaster. © copyright 1999-2009, Fairness.com LLC.
"Fairness.com" and "Life isn't fair... but we're working on it" are service marks of Fairness.com LLC. All rights reserved.