Archive for 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.
Digital Media Will Fuck You Up!
Digital Media Will Fuck You Up was the title of a great presentation (watch the video below or on blip.tv) given by Mark Comerford (@markmedia, teacher of new media and an information consultant) during the Young Leaders Social Media Café 01 that took place in Beirut, on March 6, 2010. Mark’s presentation on the digitalization process and the shift in the way we see and approach the world around us
8Mar2010 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 2 comments | Continued
من هم أكثر الباحثين عن البروكسي في المغرب العربي؟
18Feb2010 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
Google has disabled the ability for Nawaat to upload new videos
Update - February 17, 2010: Youtube has restored the rejected video and nawaat’s account. Thank you Google for the understanding and thank you all for the support.
Today we got a message from Youtube informing us that the ability to post new videos on Youtube has been temporarily disabled for violating the YouTube Community Guidelines [...]
15Feb2010 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 45 comments | Continued
في حجب المدونات و كيفية إنشاء مدونة جديدة على بلوجر دون خسارة المدونة القديمة و الروابط الآتية لها
8Feb2010 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
Lancement du site “Threatened Voices” (Voix menacées)
Aujourd’hui plus que jamais, des personnes sont menacées ou emprisonnées pour ce qu’elles publient sur Internet.
L’augmentation de l’utilisation d’Internet par les militants et les citoyens ordinaires comme moyen d’expression et de réunion a poussé de nombreux gouvernements à augmenter leur surveillance, à mettre en place des filtres pour surveiller et censurer, à mener d'avantages d'actions [...]
6Nov2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
Elections Tunisiennes : Le Saviez-Vous ?
Un peu d’humour avec quelques faits drôles sur les élections Tunisiennes de 2009 :
Parmi les 5.2 millions d’électeurs tunisiens, 3.8 millions sont des adhérents au parti du Président ben Ali, L’Etat-RCD, au pouvoir depuis l’indépendance de la Tunisie en 1956 (PSD puis RCD).
Le RCD est le plus grand parti politique au monde, avec 3.8 millions [...]
31Oct2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 2 comments | Continued
Tunisie : Arrestation d’un activiste connu pour avoir publié un reportage vidéo en ligne sur l’environnement
Le 20 octobre 2009, Zouhaïer Makhlouf, un militant des droits humains et correspondant du site web Assabil Online [en arabe, comme les liens suivants] a été arrêté pour avoir publié un reportage vidéo en ligne sur la pollution environnementale à Nabeul (Dar Chaabane El Fehri), une ville de la côte nord-est de la Tunisie.
30Oct2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 3 comments | Continued
Tunisia: Prominent Activist Arrested For Environmental Video Report Published Online
On October 20th, 2009, Zouhaïer Makhlouf, a Tunisia Human rights activist and correspondent of Assabil Online website has been arrested for publishing a video report online about the environmental pollution in Nabeul (Dar Chaabane El Fehri), a coastal town in northeastern Tunisia. [...]
27Oct2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 1 comment | Continued
Tunisie: une élection présidentielle sans enjeux ? [Vidéo]
Tunisie: une élection présidentielle sans enjeux ? Sur TV5 Monde dans l’émission Afrique Presse avec Slimane Zeghidour Journaliste à TV5MONDE. Nadir Djennad Journaliste à Beur FM. Beur FM Francis Laloupo Directeur de la rédaction du magazine d’information Continental. Majed Nehmé Directeur de la rédaction du magazine d’information Afrique Asie. [...]
17Oct2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 1 comment | Continued
Benali2009.com
31Jul2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 3 comments | Continued
الحوار مع برهان بسيس لا يخدم سوى السلطة
8Jul2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 5 comments | Continued
Tunisia: Facebook user jailed for spreading rumors liable to disrupt public order
On Saturday, July 4, 2009, The 8th Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance in Tunis has condemned a Tunisian professor, Dr Khedija Arfaoui, to eight months in prison for spreading rumors, on the social networking website Facebook, liable to disrupt public order.
7Jul2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 4 comments | Continued
Tunisia: Blogger’s home raided, laptop and CDs robbed
The house of the Tunisian journalist and blogger Zied el-Heni has been raided last night (April 10, 2009). In a blog post published today, Zied wrote that his laptop and CDs which contain all his work have been robbed:
I am sorry to inform you that my house has been raided and robbed on April 10, [...]
12Apr2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
Video Interview: Aljazeera’s Web-inspired business strategy
I first met Mohamed Nanabhay, the 29-year-old South African, during the 3rd Annual Aljazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar, in 2007. Mohamed is a prominent blogger, a friend and a colleague from Global Voices covering Qatar where he is based. Mohamed is the former Aljazeera head of New Media and the mastermind of the Aljazeera’s successful invasion of the Web.
8Apr2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
Interview with Robert Guerra about the Freedom on the Net Index
A new report on Internet freedom was launched by Freedom House, an organization which monitors freedom around the world. The “Freedom on the Net” study surveyed 15 countries on the basis of two key components: access to Web and mobile technology and the free flow of information through it. The report covered events that took place in the years 2007 and 2008, identifying new emerging threats to Internet freedom.
3Apr2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued
برنامج مُولّْد اللغة الخشبية التونسية
1Apr2009 | Sami Ben Gharbia | 0 comments | Continued








