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Archive for Tunisia

The Descending Cloak of Silence: The predicament of the Arab blogger

Posted by: Ion | February 19th, 2007 · 8:09 PM

The antipathy toward the Web from the conservative authoritarian regimes of the Arab world is well known. For the Arab blogger, exposure to restricted access, police surveillance, intimidation and even arrest and torture are the preconditions for posting.

But as bad as things have been, we seem to be passing into a deeper freeze, as the blogger causes célèbres continue multiplying at a truly alarming rate. And of course, as dissident Arab sites keep abruptly turning into 404s.

Posted in: Arab Internet. Blogosphere. Tunisia. Syria. Egypt. Abdel Kareem Nabil | No Comments

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