Foreign correspondent
Yasmine Ryan writes for Al Jazeera English Online, where she focuses on North Africa, France and digital activism.
After living in Paris for some years, she has spent much of 2011 in Tunisia covering the uprising and its aftermath.
She will be returning to cover what Tunisians hope will be their first free and democratic election in October.
Ryan is a New Zealand journalist and has written for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, NZ Listener, Scoop and Spasifik magazine.
She has also contributed to Pacific Journalism Review on climate change.