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• Star Wars in Tunisia: Jedi cloaks

  
  Roaming Tales — Authority: 458
  This is the first in a series of four posts on Star Wars in Tunisia. In 2006 we were living in London and looking for somewhere to spend our Christmas holiday.We chose Tunisia for several reasons. Firstly, it was cheaper than Sicily, our first choice. Secondly, Tunisia offered an intriguing mix of winter sun, ...
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• Tunisian Blogger Fatma Arabicca Could Face Three Years in Prison

  
  Committee to Protect Bloggers — Authority: 117
  Last week, Tunisian blogger Fatma Riahi was detained on possible libel charges. According to Sami Ben Gharbia of Global Voices Advocacy : On Monday, November 2nd, 2009, Tunisian blogger and college Theatre professor, Fatma Riahi (34), known online as Arabicca, was summoned to appear before the Criminal Brigade ...
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• Tunisia # 9 Sahara Desert (part 1)

  
  Ms Cellania — Authority: 121
  Douz,is the largest of the oases in western Tunisia and driving through it looked quite shabby. It was from here that we were going to get our experience of the Sahara Desert. It was all geared for the tourists and very contrived, however you could still imagine what it must have been like for the early camel trains ...
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• Tunisia jails 8 for terrorism links - lawyer

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  Source: Reuters TUNIS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A Tunisian court has sentenced eight men to up to 12 years in jail on charges of belonging to a terrorist cell, a defence lawyer said on Saturday. Three received 12-year ...
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• Tunisia: Blogger Fatma Arabicca Detained

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 716
  Tunisian blogger Fatma Riahi, who blogs as Fatma Arabicca, has been charged with defamation on her own blog and is now being detained. A group has been formed on Facebook in support of the 34-year-old blogger, who is also being accused of blogging on Debat Tunise (Tunisia Debate).
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• Nous Sommes Tous Fatma, We Are All Fatma

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 165
  Fatma Riahi aka Fatma Arabicca is a Tunisian blogger who was arrested on the 2nd of November 2009 by the criminal Brigade Gorjani in Tunis for defamation and  being the woman behind “ Debat Tunise Read More......( read more )
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• TUNISIA: Online activists rally to free fellow blogger Fatma Riahi

  
  Babylon & Beyond — Authority: 635
  Lina Ben Mhenni was one of the last people to see Fatma Riahi the day she was arrested. The two women bloggers had been in touch online and by phone, but it wasnt until Ben Mhenni saw that Riahis Facebook profile and blog had been shut down that they made urgent plans to meet for coffee on last Sunday. Riahi, a high ...
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• Dirty Business in Tunisia

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 165
  Lest we forget Tunisia’s burgeoning censorship portfolio, here is the latest case:Zouheir Makhlouf was arrested in 20 October after he published a video about pollution, lack of infrastructure and Read More......( read more )
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• Tunisia # 8 A trip to a desert oasis (Chebika part 2)

  
  Ms Cellania — Authority: 121
  Chebika is a small mountain oasis town surrounded by a dry and arid desert region, just north of the salt lakes or Chotts. It is said to the least famous of these oasis towns yet its quite spectacular with its rugged rocks and steep-sided ravines. Having driven through houses we arrived below.... After walking ...
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• Tunisia: blogger Fatma Riahi arrested and could face criminal libel charge

  
  [fikra] ???? — Authority: 106
  update 1 : November 6th, 2009 – Lawyer Ben Debba said fatma has been transferred to Bouchoucha police station and might be summoned to appear before a public prosecutor. update 2 : November 7th, 2009 – Lawyer Ben Debba said that fatma has been released. On Monday, November 2nd, 2009, Tunisian blogger ...
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• Tunisia: blogger Fatma Riahi arrested and could face criminal libel charge

  
  Global Voices Advocacy — Authority: 579
  On Monday, November 2nd, 2009, Tunisian blogger and college Theatre professor, Fatma Riahi (34), known online as Arabicca, was summoned to appear before the Criminal Brigade of Gorjani (Tunis), where she was questioned about her online activities. Fatma was released the same day around 10 pm then summoned again the ...
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• Pollwatching in Tunisia

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 514
  The National Democratic Institute has released a press statement discussing efforts between the NDI and major Tunisian opposition parties to observe election processes in the recent presidential election after President Ben Ali banned international election observers.  According to the statement, “Three ...
  5 days ago

• India to participate in Abu Dhabi judo tournament

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Abu Dhabi, Nov 4 (IANS) Around 30 countries, including India, will participate in the international judo tournament here Nov 20-21, WAM news agency reported Wednesday.The two-day event will be held at the Al-Jazira sports and cultural club.The tournament was earlier organised in Europe and Africa.Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia, ...
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• FACTBOX-Snapshot of "mass-market" carbon offset projects

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  Source: Reuters Nov 4 (Reuters) - A U.N. scheme designed to yield significant emissions cuts and improve the livelihoods of millions of people in developing nations is quickly gaining favour after the world body ...
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• UN: Endorse Goldstone Report

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  Source: Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - The United Nations (UN) General Assembly should endorse the report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict when it meets to discuss Middle East peace issues on November ...
  6 days ago

• Tunisia # 7 A trip into the desert (part1)

  
  Ms Cellania — Authority: 121
  On day three of our holiday we headed out into the desert in a four-wheel drive vehicle. We were visiting the mountain oases of Tamerza and Chebika Tamerza is the largest mountain oasis in Tunisia, known as Ad Turres by the Romans. It has a pleasant canyon and has an abandoned old town. The town was abandoned after ...
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• Nigeria call up injured Mikel Obi for crucial qualifier

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 155
  Nigeria have selected Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi, who is sidelined with an ankle injury, for a crucial World Cup qualifier against Kenya on November 14 in Nairobi. Mikel missed Nigeria’s World Cup qualifying match at home to Mozambique last month as a result of the injury. Russia-based right fullback ...
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• Tunisia # 6 Tozeur an oasis

  
  Ms Cellania — Authority: 121
  Tozeur is an oasis town on the edge of the Sahara, we only spent a couple of nights here, we arrived late afternoon and this is my first view of the pool at our hotel. I managed to fit in a swim the following afternoon. In fact one of the things that we found frustrating was there was never enough time to use all the ...
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• Manic Monday Links

  
  Africa — Authority: 510
  Let’s begin the new week with a roundup of stories from across Africa, with commentary as apropos: Mozambique’s voters went to the polls last week and it appears that, as with every national election since independence in 1975, they have returned FRELIMO to power . One voter seems to have captured the ...
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• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Morocco for a Meeting of Foreign Ministers

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Morocco for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Middle East and the world’s leading industrialized nations. They will discuss democracy in the region and ways to resolve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Secretary Clinton came to Marrakech for the sixth Forum for ...
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