Wadah Khanfar, former director general of Al Jazeera, to speak at MIT Media Lab

From ... My heart’s in Accra Sat Feb 18 2012, 00:10:24

A little more than a year ago, the world changed in a sudden and dramatic way. The long-time leader of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was ousted after a month of largely peaceful street protests demanding an end to authoritarian rule. A few weeks later, the world changed again, when hundreds of thousands of [...]

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