Slim Amamou

Slim Amamou
سليم عمامو
Secretary of State for Sport and Youth
In office
17 January 2011 – 25 May 2011
Preceded byPost created
Succeeded byMyriam Mizouni
Personal details
Born1977 (age 46–47)
NationalityTunisian
Political partyTunisian Pirate Party (2010-2011)
Pirate Party of Tunisia
Alma materUniversity of Sousse
ProfessionProgrammer
WebsiteNo Memory Space

Slim Amamou (listen (Arabic: سليم عمامو, romanizedSlīm ‘Amāmū; born 1977) is a Tunisian blogger and a former Secretary of State for Sport and Youth in the transitional Tunisian government of early 2011. He resigned from the role in the week of 25 May 2011 in protest of the transitional government's censorship of several websites.[1][2]

  1. ^ Angelique Chrisafis (2011-05-25). "Tunisian dissident blogger quits ministerial post". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  2. ^ Masri, Safwan. Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017, 41.