{"id":1414,"date":"2011-10-10T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/10\/ab11-in-the-heart-of-tunisia-a-journey-to-the\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:30:29","slug":"ab11-in-the-heart-of-tunisia-a-journey-to-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/10\/10\/ab11-in-the-heart-of-tunisia-a-journey-to-the\/","title":{"rendered":"#AB11 &#8211; In the Heart of Tunisia: A Journey to the Epicenter of the New Arab World \u2014 The Sudanese Thinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/532042721\/ab11-in-the-heart-of-tunisia-a-journey-to-the-epicenter-of-the-new-arab-world-the-sudanese-thinker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/MinLZhszk5OlF-1JJ8z9DDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><br \/>To truly begin to understand the significance of the 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting that just took place in Tunisia, you first have to make yourself familiar with what happened two years ago in December 2009 during the 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting in Beirut.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sudanesethinker.com\/2011\/10\/09\/heart-of-tunisia-ab11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Show original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesTo truly begin to understand the significance of the 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting that just took place in Tunisia, you first have to make yourself familiar with what happened two years ago in December 2009 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/10\/10\/ab11-in-the-heart-of-tunisia-a-journey-to-the\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1411,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/10\/11\/global-voices-podcast-3rd-arab-bloggers-meeting\/","url_meta":{"origin":1414,"position":0},"title":"Global Voices Podcast: 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting \u2013 Part 1 \u00b7 Global Voices","author":"aslam","date":"October 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties In an addition to our usual monthly podcast, we have some special audio for you from the newly concluded 3rd Arab Bloggers Meeting in Tunisia.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1375,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/11\/bahrain-an-overlooked-arab-spring-battleground\/","url_meta":{"origin":1414,"position":1},"title":"Bahrain: An overlooked Arab Spring battleground | Radio Times | WHYY","author":"aslam","date":"November 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesThe tide that arose in Tunisia and Egypt spread to the small island in the Persian Gulf, too, until it was crushed by the Al Khalifi monarchy with the help of Saudi troops.Via whyy.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1337,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/28\/gulf-bloggers-sentenced-to-prison\/","url_meta":{"origin":1414,"position":2},"title":"Gulf Bloggers Sentenced to Prison","author":"aslam","date":"November 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Today, the Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates, acting as the \u201cState Security Court,\u201d sentenced five bloggers to prison time. 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