Riadh Guerfali, also known by the pseudonym Astrubal, is a

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n lawyer and

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activist. He is best known for being a manager of the website

Nawaat Nawaat (Arabic: نواة) is an independent collective blog co-founded by Tunisians Sami Ben Gharbia, Sufian Guerfali and Riadh Guerfali in 2004, with Malek Khadraoui joining the organization in 2006. The goal of Nawaat's founders was to provide ...

, which itself became a platform for organizing protesters during the

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Online activities

In 2004, Apple updated its iconic 1984 advertisement to showcase the

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. The following month, Guerfaili as Astrubal uploaded a mashup of that video replacing the

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character with the Tunisian president,

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. This video was part of a broader anti-government propaganda campaign initially launched by Tunisian human rights activists in 2002. Guerfali promotes

citizen journalism Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism or street journalism, is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, a ...

on the Internet. The website Nawaat has been one of Guerfali's tools for promoting citizen journalism. In 2011, Guerfali won a Netcitizen prize for promoting freedom of expression on the Internet. This prize was sponsored by

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and

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References

External links

Astrubal's blog
(in French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerfali, Riadh People of the Tunisian Revolution 21st-century Tunisian lawyers Tunisian human rights activists Living people Year of birth missing (living people)