Author: Hamdi Baala
2019 WPI Fellow
Bio: Journalist based in Algiers, Algeria.
Twitter: @hamdibaala
Same.
As protests in #Remada on the #Tunisia #Libya border continue after the shooting of a young (suspected) smuggler, it’s worth taking a step back to note:
1) these events follow a wider pattern in Maghrebi borderlands
2) they are about way more than crime & borders
A short thread.
Covid-19: La direction de Santé de Oum El Bouaghi parle de 630 cas confirmés par PCR au niveau de la wilaya jusqu'au 10 juillet.
Le ministère de la Santé, lui, parle de 312 cas à Oum El Bouaghi jusqu'à la même date.
Posts by Hamdi Baala:
Hey, where are you going with that post-truth in your hands?
To the extent that there is such a thing as objective truth, I always thought that the “fake news” trend was just an exaggerated new spin put on an old phenomenon that we used to call rumors or hoaxes, with no real new danger. Long before this WPI fellowship,...
Do you believe in life after impeachment?
To enter the Paramount Theater last Saturday afternoon, you needed to stand in line for at least two hours in the Austin, Texas, heat. The star of the show was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Texas Tribune Festival’s closing guest. I did not want to stand in...False notes in the Immigrant Song
“Our only goal will be the western shore,” goes Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” I thought of this line a lot whenever the immigration came up when we, the 2019 WPI fellows, met with different think tanks and media outlets. In my interpretation, the “western...
So, what has Trump done right ?
Two and a half years into Donald Trump’s term, the U.S. president has often stated that what he calls the “Fake News Media,” e.g. mainstream media outlets, do everything they can to downplay his accomplishments in order to make him look bad. “The Fake News Media...
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