Global Voices Online

Hack in the Box reports that Mauritania and Tunisia have mastered a new way of muzzling the online media - hacking dissident news sites.

Tunisian nekrif introduces us to some of his favourite software applications.

The ban on the popular social networking website Facebook has been lifted in Tunisia since yesterday 3 September 2008 after a massive protest by Tunisian Netizens. Tens of Facebook groups protesting the ban have popped up in recent weeks surrounding this issue. But, according to Al Chourouk newspaper, the President Ben Ali intervened personally ordering the lifting of the ban and restoring access to the website.

“The buzz in the online world these past 24 hours or so have all been around Google's new open source web browser, under the name of Google Chrome,” writes Subzero Blue from Tunisia.

“Another Paulo Coelho book that I've read recently and that I've been meaning to write about is ‘Eleven Minutes'. The book is pretty different from the other books I've read by Paulo Coelho, even though it is equally as great and enjoyable as a book, and inspiring in its own kind of way,” writes Subzero Blue from Tunisia.

“Operator-billed service revenues across the Africa & Middle East region are expected to rise to more than $107 billion in 2013,” reports StartUp Arabia.

Blogger Tunisianbelle shares a horrific story of being searched, her clothes being torn, and subsequently missing her flight, all due to the way she was dressed.

Tunisian Annaqued [Ar] republishes a human rights communique protesting the death of a demonstrator during a stand off with police in the Rudayef protests, which have been going on since the beginning of the year.

Tunisia is the 47th most peaceful country in the world, according to the Global Peace Index, Zizou from Djerba writes [Fr].