Lina Ben Mhenni

لينا بن مهني

Activist Independent Inactive Verified

Tunisian blogger and university teacher; her blog "A Tunisian Girl" became one of the most influential dissident voices during the 2011 Jasmine Revolution. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Died in 2020 at 36.

Country: Tunisia
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist
Status: Historical figure

Position

1 source document on file for Lina Ben Mhenni (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Interview English

Lina Ben Mhenni ("A Tunisian Girl" blogger; Nobel-nominated free-expression activist) — IJNet interview (~2011): her creed that "Words are weapons that can be used to fight dictatorships," and that "the battle against censorship never ends… fight against self-censorship." The blogger who chronicled the Sidi Bouzid uprising under her real name when media was blacked out.

Words are weapons that can be used to fight dictatorships. The battle against censorship never ends. We must preserve this new freedom and fight against self-censorship.

26 words original source ↗

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Lina Ben Mhenni [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/lina-ben-mhenni

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Lina Ben Mhenni." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/lina-ben-mhenni.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-lina-ben-mhenni,
  title     = {{Lina Ben Mhenni}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/lina-ben-mhenni},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.