About Sami Ben Gharbia
My personal blog is at [fikra] فكرة (which means idea in Arabic). I'm also the co-founder of nawaat, a Tunisian collective blog about news and politics, Cybversion a collective blog of documenting censorship in Tunisia.
I'm currently Global Voices Advocacy Director.
Latest posts by Sami Ben Gharbia
Stories
May 12th, 2008
Middle East & North Africa
According to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, the website of the leading Egyptian Movement for Change - Kefaya, has been blocked in Egypt since May 4 by the government-owned Internet service provider TE Data, Egypt's largest ISP.
May 11th, 2008
Middle East & North Africa
According to anasonline blog, access to Wikipedia Arabic, the Arabic language version of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is now blocked by all ISPs in Syria.
April 30th, 2008
Egypt: Facebooking the Struggle
After little less than a month following the April 6 strike, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet activists were arrested, preparations for the next round of a planned general strike to mark the 80th birthday of President Mubarak, on May 4, 2008, are currently spreading all over the blogosphere and the Internet. Blogger and activist Nora Younis shares some of her ideas with us about the role of Internet in Egypt as a platform for political activism.
April 26th, 2008
Middle East & North Africa
Prominent Saudi blogger Fouad Alfarhan was freed today. He is back home in Jeddah after 137 days in custody.
April 24th, 2008
Middle East & North Africa
Two Egyptian activists, Esraa Abdel Fattah Ahmed, who launched the “6 April” Facebook group and blogger Mohamed Sharkawy, have been released. Both Esraa and Sharkawy were arrested on 5 April while distributing leaflets announcing the 6 April strike.
April 14th, 2008
Sami Ben Gharbia's Space
I'm the co-founder of several Tunisian online projects:
Nawaat (The Core)
Ben Ali Yezzi Fock !
Tunisian Prison Map
Cybversion
Funding drive
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