[fikra] – Blogging Tunisia: ban, censorship and more censorship… فكرة

Posted on October 20th, 2006 by .
Categories: Blogosphere.

Sami Ben Gharbia from [fikra] فكرة has written an interesting blog entry about the possibilities and impossibilities of blogging in/about Tunisia for Global Voices: Blogging Tunisia: ban, censorship and more censorship…

Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunesian-Dutch man who has fled from Tunisia in 1998 and lives in The Netherlands as political refugee. He has written an e-book about his story of fleeing Tunisia, crossing Africa and the Middle East, to reach Europe and get asylum: Borj Erroumi XL

3 comments.

sami

Comment on October 20th, 2006.

Hi Martijn,
Bedankt voor uw interesse en uw lovende woorden 🙂

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