Amira Yahyaoui
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| Born | August 6, 1984 |
| Nationality | Tunisia |
Amira Yahyaoui (born August 6, 1984) is a watchdog journalist from Tunisia.
Yahyaoui was born in Ksar Hadada as the daughter of the judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui who was dismissed after writing about the lack of justice in Tunisia. Her cousin Zouhair Yahyaoui was an economist who founded the satirical website TUNeZINE. He died in 2005 after being persecuted and tortured by the government for his objections to censorship in Tunisia. Amira fled to France and became a student there while participating in criticism of the Tunisian regime. She was stateless for several years, but after the fall of President Ben Ali, she was able to gain a passport from the Tunisian embassy and returned to Tunesia, where she founded the NGO Al Bawsala ("The Compass" in Arabic ).[1] In 2014 she became a Meredith Greenberg Yale World Fellow,[2] and was awarded the conflict prevention prize by the Fondation Chirac[3]
References
- ^ Al Bawsala mission on its website
- ^ Amira Yahyaoui on Yale website
- ^ Amira Yahyaoui – 2014 Laureate of the prize for conflict prevention on the website of the Fondation Chirac
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