Hnani and the Family

Through my journey in the US, I lived in 2 of the most notorious cities in the HipHop world. I started in Long Beach California, the home of Snoop Dog, Warren G, Dr. Dre, etc… and I now live in the Bay Area where major HipHop artists like 2Pac and Too Short launched their career. I was and still am a big HipHop fan mainly because I felt that is the music by the people and for the people. It talked about the real issues- Racism, police brutality, racial profiling, etc… and it was the loudest voice of minorities… It is one of the things I felt we lacked in Tunisia and we are in a desperate need for, and today, it is with a great pleasure that I introduce you to a Tunisian HipHop Artist who bridged the gap between Tunisian real issues and music in his masterpiece.

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Mr. Meddah in his article here had summed up his trip to Morocco in 4 points:
1- He presented material about Emerging Technologies for Citizen Journalists.
2- He thought it was awesome to meet so many interesting people in one place.
3- He visited Bab Marrakech and couldn’t visit Hassan II Mosque.
4- Royal Air Maroc was beyond his expectation and his flight to Morocco was a lot better then his Air France flights between Tunis and Paris.

While it would be foolhardy to assert that I, as a committed Tunisian blogger, am pleased with such report, it is fair to say that the lack of information from this report was partly because we haven’t communicated our expectations from Mr. Meddah’s report.
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Sorry it took me a while to post the video. I needed to edit it first… I had to learn how to edit videos and I did a pretty good job! well, you can be the judge.About the interview, I asked Dr. Fayyad about Yahoo and its rival Google, we also tackled the issue of technology and the Arab world and we ended it with a message from Dr. Fayyad to Tunisia

I will post later the full 40 minute unedited version where he talked more about Yahoo and Data Mining. Enjoy the video!

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by Tunisien

Multiple news outlets talked lately about the anti-marines recruitment rallies in Berkeley California, so I decided to take my camera and digitalize few moments of this rally.
The World Can’t Wait group was heading the rally. They were exercising their freedom of speech directly by speaking freely and loudly about the illegitimacy of the Iraq war. So I decided to interview one of those speakers, her name was Stephanie.
I asked Stephanie about the goal of this rally. She said she is a member of the World Can’t Wait movement that’s main goal is to stop Bush’s legacy as rapidly as possible, so his successor won’t find him/her self taking over a deteriorating policy. Read more…

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I had the chance to attend the Arab Technology Forum hosted by Techwadi and meet a few Arab entrepreneurs and leaders in the Tech industry. Techwadi is the leading networking association for Arab American professionals in the Technology industry and is led by the very ambitious Tunisian Ghazi Benothman. Ghazi is the General and Founding partner of Minah Ventures. Minah Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, with offices in Boston and Dubai. The firm is focused on making early stage (Seed and Series A) investments in technology startups, looking to leverage the engineering talent present in the Middle East / North Africa region. Read more…

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