What is Lina Ben Mhenni?
[[File:Lina Ben Mhenni3.jpg|right|200px]] '''Lina Ben Mhenni''' ({{lang-ar|'''لينا بن مهني'''}}; May 22, 1983 &ndash; January 27, 2020) was a [[Tunisia]]n [[Internet activist]], [[blog]]ger and assistant lecturer. She worked in [[linguistics]] at [[Tunis University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bonfire.bonnier.com/en/content/lina-ben-mhenni-wins-freedom-speech-award |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-07-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118102420/http://bonfire.bonnier.com/en/content/lina-ben-mhenni-wins-freedom-speech-award |archive-date=2013-01-18 }}</ref> In January 2011, she covered the early weeks of the [[Tunisian Revolution]] from [[Sidi Bouzid Governorate]] in the interior of the country. In 2011, Ben Mhenni was reported to have been a candidate for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]],<ref name=smh>{{cite news|title=Voice behind a revolution |url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/voice-behind-a-revolution-20120120-1qa20.html |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=2012-01-21 |access-date=2014-01-21}}</ref> for her works and activism during the [[Tunisian Revolution]]. Mhenni died on January 27, 2020 of a [[stroke]] caused by an [[autoimmune disease]] at a hospital in [[Tunis]], aged 36.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.realites.com.tn/2020/01/lina-ben-mhenni-nest-plus/|title=Lina Ben Mhenni n'est plus - Réalités Online|date=27 January 2020|access-date=27 January 2020|archive-date=27 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127091719/https://www.realites.com.tn/2020/01/lina-ben-mhenni-nest-plus/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mhenni, Lina Ben}} [[Category:1983 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Political activists]] [[Category:Tunisian academics]] [[Category:Journalists]] [[Category:Writers from Tunis]] {{bio-stub}}