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abuaardvark

  1. Just ran into @jricole at bookstore in Tunis. Odds of that actually not as low as you'd think. 9:23 AM Jun 27th via TweetDeck
  2. Spent more than hour talking with Rached Ghannouchi this afternoon. Fascinating. Have to write my article soon. 7:04 AM Jun 27th via TweetDeck
  3. At intense, crowded al Nahda press conference on its withdrawal from revolution joint committee, with Ghannouchi and others. 4:22 AM Jun 27th via TweetDeck
  4. Impossible to avoid comparing Tunisia to Egypt. Complaints on all sides sound so familiar. But important to take each on own terms. 2:14 AM Jun 27th via TweetDeck
  5. Attended two al-Nahda campaign rallies outside of Tunis over last few days. Fascinating. Details later, but they have their act together. 2:12 AM Jun 27th via TweetDeck
  6. Long day yesterday visiting Sidi Bouzeid and other Tunisian towns. People still angry, don't feel revolution has brought real change. 2:08 AM Jun 27th via TweetDeck
  7. Setting the record on Bahrain straight http://is.gd/eDDQYj 11:30 PM Jun 24th via TweetDeck
  8. I'll be taking suggestions for the best current Tunisian/Maghrebi rappers all day before I take a field trip to local CD store. 11:26 PM Jun 24th via TweetDeck
  9. I have simply got to find every single track on that Tunisian rap station playing in the cab last night. 11:23 PM Jun 24th via TweetDeck
  10. Good dispatch on Islamists in Egypt from Yasmine el-Rashidi http://is.gd/IeYCsE 8:15 AM Jun 24th via TweetDeck
  11. Flight to Tunis was completely full, airport packed. I know tourism is down, but didn't feel like it today. 7:00 AM Jun 24th via TweetDeck
  12. Any tweeps cooling their heels in de Gaulle waiting for indefinitely delayed flight? Holler at me. 1:07 AM Jun 24th via TweetDeck
  13. Relieved to get on earlier flight to help make tight connection. But now sitting on runway 45 minutes. #neveragaindelta 12:41 PM Jun 23rd via TweetDeck
  14. RT @stevenacook: New Blog Post from Cairo - Which Comes First? The Constitution or Elections? http://is.gd/xzx3SN 7:08 AM Jun 23rd via TweetDeck
  15. Heading to the airport soon; will be on Twitter sporadically over next week. 6:09 AM Jun 23rd via TweetDeck
  16. John Rawls and the Egyptian Revolution, by Nathan Brown http://is.gd/9bCodE 6:07 AM Jun 23rd via TweetDeck
  17. MT @blakehounshell: ever added up cost of all the interventions pushed by WaPo editorial page + tried to square it with its budget ideas? 6:07 AM Jun 23rd via TweetDeck
  18. RT @chanadbh: My piece for FP on today's sentencing in #Bahrain http://bit.ly/jVqU3D 5:18 PM Jun 22nd via TweetDeck
  19. Nice RT @AlOraibi: Obama met with sister of Khalid Said and Tunisian blogger&activist Jamel Bettaieb today 2:14 PM Jun 22nd via TweetDeck