Lina Ben Mhenni is a Tunisian Internet activist, blogger and assistant lecturer in linguistics at Tunis University. She is, among Tunisia's prominent bloggers, one of few who blogged under her own name during the revolution. Mhenni has been awarded the Deutsche Welle International Blog Award and El Mundo’s International Journalism Prize, and will attend the 8th Dublin Platform hosted by Front Line Defenders this week.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisian civil society – life behind the Nobel PrizeThough civil society organizations are allowed to operate, their recommendations are often sidelined to accommodate...