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Witness Borne: July 2013
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Snapshot Tripoli: February 17, 2013. The following is an excerpt from my personal, narrative non-fiction snapshot of Tripoli during the second anniversary of Libya's February 17 revolution, published in Guernica. To read the full piece, click here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. There was an error in this gadget. Snapshot Tripoli: February 17, 2013.
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Witness Borne: March 2014
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Monday, March 3, 2014. A Transatlantic Partnership after the Arab Uprisings. An excerpt from my latest argument. With Benjamin Preisler (@LKwesiJ) in Tufts University's Fletcher Forum of World Affairs:. To read the entire piece, click here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. There was an error in this gadget. A Transatlantic Partnership after the Arab Uprisin. Check out my friends' blogs.
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Witness Borne: December 2014
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Tunisia's Energy Sector Investigation. The following is an excerpt from my latest investigation into Tunisia's oil and gas sector for Foreign Policy:. To read the full piece, click here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. There was an error in this gadget. There was an error in this gadget. Tunisias Energy Sector Investigation. Check out my friends' blogs. Turkish Politics in Action.
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Witness Borne: October 2013
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Tuesday, October 29, 2013. Tunisia’s Politicians Play On. The Tunisian political game continues, thankfully without a brazen coup (for now), yet sadly without much regard for the needs of common citizens. Here is an excerpt from my latest analysis in the Cairo Review. Despite deep ideological rifts, continuing economic woes, and regional pressures, Tunisia’s political game continues. To read the full article, click here.
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Witness Borne: August 2013
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Saturday, August 17, 2013. My Interview with the Bedouin commander who captured Saif Al-Islam Gadhafi. Here is an excerpt from my latest piece in The Independent. On an old Saharan road in the small hours of a cold November night, darkness cloaked a Bedouin commander and his 14 men waiting in ambush. To continue reading, click here. Here is an excerpt from my recent article in Foreign Policy. To continue reading, click here. In both Tunisia...
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Witness Borne: April 2014
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Tunisian Youth Continue Their Revolution. An excerpt from my latest piece of reporting from Tunisia for the new online news outlet, Middle East Eye. Despite these steps, many Tunisian youths find themselves in the same predicament as three years ago, their futures as bleak or even bleaker than before the uprising. 8220;The youth who contributed or played a role in the revolution, they helped get certain people to po...
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Witness Borne: Tunisia's Strange Relationship with Israel
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Monday, May 5, 2014. Tunisia's Strange Relationship with Israel. An excerpt from my latest article. For Foreign Policy on Tunisia's strange relationship with Israel:. But about 80 members of Tunisia's national assembly weren't willing to leave it at that. They drafted a letter. It's worth remembering that Tunisia hosted the Palestinian Liberation Organization for a time in the 1980s. ( According. To read the full article, click here.
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Witness Borne: May 2013
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Wednesday, May 1, 2013. According to the watchdog organization, Al-Bawsala. This problem of tardiness and absenteeism in Tunisia’s first genuinely democratic body has been relatively constant following the revolution. More than that, the problem gets to the heart of Tunisia’s continuing difficulties in transitional democracy. 8220;People are angry about this assembly,” says Selim Kharrat, Executive Director of Al-Bawsala. 8220;They are all ...
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Witness Borne: Three Media Heavyweights: Interview Excerpts
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Reporting and analysis from Turkey, Tunisia, Libya and counting. Monday, June 23, 2014. Three Media Heavyweights: Interview Excerpts. In the months of May and June 2014, I conducted over a dozen interviews with some of the top players in the Tunisian media sector. These interviews were all part of the research that went into my subsequent report for Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab’s, A Tale of Two Decrees. Interview with Nabil Karoui, the head of Nessma TV (June 6, 2014). I am the guy who put together Bej...