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Sami Beh Gharbia

Sami Beh Gharbia

Blogger, Netherlands

Sami Ben Gharbia is an anti-censorship activist and blogger based in the Netherlands. He is the co-founder of nawaat.org, an award-winning Tunisian collective blog about news and politics; Cybversion, a collective blog that documents censorship in Tunisia; and babtounes, which monitors live tweets about Tunisia. Ben Gharbia also serves as advocacy director for Global Voices, where he also works on Threatened Voices, a recently developed initiative of the GlobalVoices Advocacy project. He is the author of  Journey in a Hostile World, which documents his escape from Tunisia.

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