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Mai stati così potenti come ora | Ouejdane Mejri | TEDxEsinoLario


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good morning hello I’m so m
you write my name in Italian
so instead it is written in French as
I wrote it when I lived in Tunisia but
if you want to know how it is read
you will have to read it in this way perfectly
arabic wiz of m well I have lived with
these three identities for all of mine
life is like my name
I too twenty years ago coming to Italy
I had to change a lot
I changed the way I eat
changed the language I use all
days I also changed mine
mentality
but the biggest change that is
happened in my life it happened
when in 2011
in my country of origin in Tunisia is
the revolution occurred, the people were
put against the dictatorship
the first Arab country to request the
freedom and democracy
and me that I had grown up in that country for
21 years under the dictatorship finally
finally this revolution occurred
on the other side of the Mediterranean
he gave the greatest gift the end
of the censorship the end of self-censorship
I could say what I thought but
above all the freedom to be one
real city a free woman who
he comes from a free country and lives in a
another free country
and here is my name for Tunisia
only me
many others like me from Tunisians who
they live abroad
we found ourselves on social networks for
discuss together with Tunisians in Tunisia
together with our families to ours
community to understand how to do for
help for the first time why
we were free to think of thinking about us
same but above all because we have been
finally called to ours
responsibility of citizens ie that
to bring wealth value knowledge
added to our country I returned
to work in Tunisia
remaining still here in Italy later
twenty years of work in the world
informatics
I got back to the game I’m re
sitting on the school desks
I studied international cooperation
now I’m doing a new doctorate a
doctorate in urban planning strategy with
the idea of ​​bringing a little from Italy
what I learned what it is
It was this great gift that has me
offered my new country italy to
Tunisia that today sonia democracy e
sonia growth but a certain point
we were there we wondered but how
can to act to change things
after 60 years of dictatorship what it means
bring wealth to this country
take it from abroad, however, together with the
people there how to do development when from
sixty years of development policies
that have been promoted have been
promoted by putting together powers and
dictators have not solved the problems
of poverty have not solved problems of
malpractice have not shortened those
inequalities between skin people do not
they managed to counter that
suffering of people and it
exploitation of underground wealth
in the Africa from which I come
here is how to develop today that we
we are simple individuals who live
out we got online
we started working together
we thought of the concept of society
civil a concept that I discovered here
in Italy the idea of ​​belonging to a
third sector and we have founded
an association I belong to
an association that created two
branches one in Italy and one twin in
tunisia and from there started not a new one
adventure together with others like me
from the United States from Canada from Europe
from north africa from the middle east but
also from hong kong the Tunisian diaspora
has moved thanks to the movement of the
democracy to be able to help and what
we started doing
we simply started mediating
among those who really want to help you down here
between those who really want to develop here
Jun and not just exploit and mediate for
bring useful solutions
we work in the healthcare world
public for example is ours
association has decided to undertake
a particular road that of
accompany the reform of the
institutions that we work with i
ministries in Tunisia
I often go to work downstairs
we work also thanks to new ones
remote technologies do not exist anymore
need to travel continuously
they can make meetings you can create
distance discussions this
change we are exploiting for it
bring new and different voices but
especially to be able to say that if yes
wants to accompany democracy for the
first time in an African country
it means that we all must
work and we are finally here
in the net the migrant is not a burden
yet seen so both from the country from
which he leaves that does not hold him back with
he does not ask them to stay but
also as a burden for those who see it
get our experience today
as a Tunisian diaspora and we have chosen
to call us this way no more
migrants or emigrants who leave
that leave or who arrive but
those who organize themselves to be able to
to influence in order to work
we owe this to all those people
who died to give us this power
of word what today allows me to
be here on this stage
unlike many other people who
they come from countries from africa but also
from other parts of the world where not
they can talk because they are governed by
the one who stops them and not the ones
allow them to use their riches of
grow to build freedom for me
freedom was given as a gift from
all those who came out of Tunisia
in the streets women and men to be able to
this chance of being
here with you but also especially one
responsibility for building mine
country and I would like to share this this
idea of ​​hope that things change
even if we do not want it
and they continue to change even if not
we are on the boat of change
then I say this many people
they often tell me you are too much
enthusiastic you’re too hopeful you believe
in a better world
I say no I am a realistic person
I lived under the dictatorship I have
he was afraid
I know what so many other people feel
today in many places in the world
and what they felt like in Italy
they lived in the times under the
dictatorship and I know what it means not
to be able to act and not be able to do today
thanks to this great change
I know what it means to be part of
a change and therefore what I
I would like to share with you and that
these connections you see here that
many among the networks that promote logic
the terror understood they understood it
potentialities they understood
potentiality
I today what I want to say that we
that we are part of these networks, not
they are virtual connections are not
computer connections but they are bridges
between individuals, individuals and communities e
these bridges therefore work not
I think it is the case to suffer the
change
I lived it and thank goodness in the
my country compared to other countries
democracy is becoming established
building our duty all of them
and to protect this freedom to make it
fruit and to understand the value it has
because if you forget that there are those who have
suffered or paid his life for
give us this fortune not just of
complain or talk but above all
to act
we betrayed his memory today
this is happening in Tunisia and me
I would like to say that from Africa it can come
a message of hope but I would like that
it was also a message of hope that
it also starts from Europe
thank you
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