Flat Earth PhD Hoax in Tunisia (FLATLANDIA CH. 8 LINKS)

THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON APRIL 23th, 2017: HERE IS A LINK TO ITS ORIGINAL FORMAT WITH PROOF OF THAT PUBLICATION DATE
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[Original Article About PhD Hoax in Tunisia from SpiritualNorth.com Published April 23, 2017] http://www.spiritualnorth.com/blog/flat-earth-phd-hoax-university-of-sfax-tunisia

TIMELINE

On April 2nd, 2017 Story breaks with NO AUTHOR on Businessnews.com.tn at 10:52 PM which says, "Former Tunisian Astronomical Society President Dr. Hafedb Ateb, "Challenged Professor Jamel Touir to broadcast a copy of the Thesis] http://www.businessnews.com.tn/jamel-touir--on-veut-porter-atteinte-a-mes-competences-scientifiques,520,71312,3

On April 3rd, 2017 at 1:28 PM a second article appears on JeanAfrique, this time by an author named Frida Dahmmani (*Corrected from Recording, which stated it broke on this article): https://www.jeuneafrique.com/424393/societe/tunisie-these-affirmant-terre-plate-provoque-stupeur-consternation-monde-universitaire/

On April 3rd, 2017 at 3:34 PM the Tunisian Astronomical Society Re-Posts large swathes of the Preliminary Rough Draft Thesis by "Amira Kharroubi" to its Facebook Page adding its own statement to denounce its validity] https://www.facebook.com/SATienLibre/photos/a.120465601311970.16121.119528784738985/1672542982770883

On April 5th, 2017 a Blog with NO AUTHOR Runs This Headline, "Amira Kharroubi is the laughing stock of academic academic world by arguing that the earth is flat"] http://musique.arabe.over-blog.com/2017/04/amira-kharoubi-est-la-risee-du-monde-academique-universitaire-en-soutenant-que-la-terre-est-plate.html

On April 6th, 2017 a Derisively well written Article with NO AUTHOR appears on WorldCrunch.com Culture and Society Section: https://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/is-the-world-flat-again-how-an-old-debate-was-revived-in-tunisia

On April 10th, 2017 Nidhal Guessoum weighs in with his scathing Op-Ed on GolfNews.com, in article Guessoum also mentions that in 2001 he gave lectures against the idea that the moon landing was fake entitled, "“Did Nasa fake the moon landing... or are we miserably failing to educate the public?” ] https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/phd-thesis-the-earth-is-flat-1.2009202

[Nidhal Guessoum is a former Post-Doc Researcher at the Goddard Space Center According to his Wikipedia Page] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidhal_Guessoum

On April 11th, 2017 at 11:55 AM two grainy and sparse "press releases" appear on www6.ansa.it and www.ansamed.info]
www.ansamed.info link:
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2017/04/11/flat-earth-thesis-rejected-says-tunisian-education-ministry_a765df5f-70f6-4777-8c41-c9f75a525d62.html 
www.6ansa.it link UNAVAILABLE if you delete the 6 in the following URL it will forward to the above ansamed.info link, although original link worked with the 6 in it] http://www6.ansa.it/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2017/04/11/flat-earth-thesis-rejected-says-tunisian-education-ministry_a765df5f-70f6-4777-8c41-c9f75a525d62.html

[Also on April 11th, 2017 a user named MacroBR444 Post's onn Chess.com, simply just to link the two above mentioned press releases  from www.6ansa.it and www.ansamed.info with the op-ed by Nidhal Guessom on GolfNews.com, yet this post now leads to MISSING PAGE, however the URL still indicates something of its subject matter] https://www.chess.com/hu/forum/view/off-topic/earth-is-flat-prove-me-wrong?page=36

{NOTE: It is curious that this post was put on "Chess.com" and that the two "press releases" (6ansa.it & ansamed.info) had the word ANSA in their URL, which is "coincidentally" an anagram for NASA, and the Chess.com post linked to NIdhal Goussom's article, whom was a Post Doc Researcher at Goddard Space Center and an Advocate for the Validity of the Moon Landing since back in 2001}
On April 12th, 2017 at 12:36 PM the Société Astronomique de Tunisie aka the Tunisian Astronomical Society posts a collaborative message about NASA, linking to their website] https://www.facebook.com/SATienLibre/posts/1687690444589470
[Link Provided by TAS to NASA.GOV on Facebook] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-reveal-new-discoveries-in-news-conference-on-oceans-beyond-earth

On April 19th, 2017 the same article by Nidhal Guessom appears on Themanews.com under the pseudonym Thema Newsroom, the Source button at the bottom of the article leads back to the GolfNews Publication, point of interest is simply the omission of Guessom's name from the byline] http://en.protothema.gr/phd-thesis-the-earth-is-flat/

On April 20th, 2017 Italian News Article by Orsola Riva mentions Thesis and goes on to disccuss Neil Armstrong and Moon Landing Deniers] https://www.corriere.it/scuola/universita/17_aprile_20/terra-piatta-gira-intorno-tunisia-238d072c-25b8-11e7-83cc-292021888e47.shtml

On April 21, 2017 Huffington Post's Italian Branch Covers Story, this one written by Corriere della Sera, saying professor Touir said,  "the student had been encouraged by some American researchers who have sent the NASA publications." ] https://www.huffingtonpost.it/2017/04/21/la-terra-e-piatta-e-il-sole-le-gira-attorno-la-tesi-di-laurea_a_22049009/?ncid=fcbklnkithpmg00000001

{NOTE: With the Exception of Frida Dahmani in the Jeane Afrique article and the hit piece by Nidhal Goussom, it seems there is a lot of initial publication under NO AUTHOR, and the further the story grows out into the web, the more we start to see by lines with names}
[List of Article Jamel Touir's work has been cited in] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jamel_Touir
[Tesla's Opinion of Einstein] http://www.spiritualnorth.com/blog/tesla-calls-einsteins-relativity-mass-of-error
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[Faouzia Charfi Wikipedia Entry, look for citation article written by Dahani equating Muslim with Flat Earth, and note that the article was published April 3rd, 2017 and Charfi's Wiki Page was updated no later than my original publication date of April 23rd, 2017 - as proven by link http://www.spiritualnorth.com/blog/flat-earth-phd-hoax-university-of-sfax-tunisia) all this means is they were moving quickly and in lockstep that April of 2017] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faouzia_Charfi#cite_note-5



[Jamel Touir Cited in BusinessNews.com.tn] http://www.businessnews.com.tn/jamel-touir--on-veut-porter-atteinte-a-mes-competences-scientifiques,520,71312,3

[Jamel Touir Former Director of The Constituent Assembly of Tunisia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_Assembly_of_Tunisia

[Preliminary Rough Draft FE Thesis Uploaded on Yumpoo.com] https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/58077351/9-st1608-011

[Alleged "Amira Kharroubi" Paper Thin LinkedIn Page Sans Photo] https://tn.linkedin.com/in/amira-kharroubi-82a7415b

[Allegedly Amira Kharroubi Facebook Page] https://www.facebook.com/amira.kharroubi

[Alleged "Amira Kharroubi" Likes Page That Wants To Block A Group of Atheists that Mock Muslim Religion] https://www.causes.com/causes/325421-

[If Published in August of 2016, Why in April of 2017, does this paper suddenly inspire the furor of Tunisian Academia, Government, and Science?] https://www.jeuneafrique.com/424393/societe/tunisie-these-affirmant-terre-plate-provoque-stupeur-consternation-monde-universitaire/

[Hired Gun Needhal Guessoum Op-Ed in Golf News] https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/phd-thesis-the-earth-is-flat-1.2009202

Guessoum's Article published April 10th, 2017, strangley says, "It was at this stage that fate luckily intervened: a copy of the thesis was "leaked" to the former president of the Tunisian Astronomical Association, who checked that it was not a hoax and then quickly rang the alarm by posting on Facebook the general conclusions of the thesis, verbatim." 

[Tunisian Astronomical Society Webpage Indicates Dr. Hafedh Ateb was Former President] www.sat.tn/presentation/comite-directeur/

[Article Wherein it Mentions Ateb Requested Touir Broadcast a Copy of Thesis] http://www.businessnews.com.tn/jamel-touir--on-veut-porter-atteinte-a-mes-competences-scientifiques,520,71312,3 (Must Be Translated from French and Arabic)

[Frank America AKA Spiritual North Contacted by Tunisian Astronomnical Society for Comments on the Matter, Published Here] http://www.spiritualnorth.com/blog/reply-from-tunisian-astronomical-society

[Charfi Secretary General to the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research cited as Professor of University of Tunisia] https://www.jeuneafrique.com/424393/societe/tunisie-these-affirmant-terre-plate-provoque-stupeur-consternation-monde-universitaire/

[Charfi Quoted in in Musique.arabe.over-blog and Jean Afrique saying, Where is our country going? Amira Kharroubi, a student at ENIS, has been working since 2011 to prepare a thesis under the direction of Professor Jamel Touir to challenge Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein, arguing that they are 'chimeras'"] http://musique.arabe.over-blog.com/2017/04/amira-kharoubi-est-la-risee-du-monde-academique-universitaire-en-soutenant-que-la-terre-est-plate.html

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/424393/societe/tunisie-these-affirmant-terre-plate-provoque-stupeur-consternation-monde-universitaire/

[Faouzia Charfi Gives Ted Talk for Scientific Revoluion in Tunisia] https://www.jeuneafrique.com/424393/societe/tunisie-these-affirmant-terre-plate-provoque-stupeur-consternation-monde-universitaire/

[New York Times Article Mentioning Zied Krichen,  Editor of the daily Newspaper, Al Maghreb,] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/world/africa/tunisia-navigates-a-democratic-path-tinged-with-religion.html

Radio Source Mentioning Krichen's Quote About Thesis on April 3rd, 2017, "Zied Krichane assures that if this thesis is supported, then it would represent greater scandal of the history of knowledge in Tunisia."] https://www.mosaiquefm.net/fr/actualite-midi-show/118708/krichane-la-terre-est-plate-un-scandale-tunisien

BusinessNews.com.tn Publishes on April 4h, 2017 that "Astronomical Scoiety of Tunisia "Intervenes With a Statement", QUOTE: "“For its part, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has, through an official letter sent to the University of Sfax, asked for justifications and clarifications in relation to the content of the thesis.”] http://www.businessnews.com.tn/la-societe-astronomique-de-tunisie-reagit-a-la-these-pretendant-que-la-terre-est-plate,520,71347,3

[Secretary of State for Foreign Trade in 2008 turned Academic Specialist in Management at the University of Sfax, Tunisia, Chokri Mamoghli Wikipedia Page] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokri_Mamoghli

[Chokri Mamoghli said on April 3rd, 2017, "It's unacceptable, it's inadmissible... The ignominy is reflected on the entire research community, on the Tunisian University, on the credibility of our diplomas, on the recruitment opportunities of our young people in foreign laboratories and even on the country."] https://www.jeuneafrique.com/424393/societe/tunisie-these-affirmant-terre-plate-provoque-stupeur-consternation-monde-universitaire/

  Chokri Mamoghli Former Secretary of State for Foreign Trade 2008] http://www.businessnews.com.tn/article,525,14641,1
[French Blog says Jamel Touir "Almost had to apologize" because they came at him "like a pack of dogs"] http://elmahdi.canalblog.com/archives/2017/04/07/35143572.html