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My wish list of books now spans many screens on the Amazon site. The iPad is becoming, more and more, a colourful compilation of covers of yet-to-be-read books, with Kindle’s daily deal and its $0.99 offers adding to this rising literary tide. Subscriptions to a number of magazines and websites that are obligatory reading have become a leaded belt, dragging me below the relentless wave of sentences. Some years back I gave myself a breather by terminating the cable tv service, which helped release me from innumerable hours of square eyed activity. However, I find that these days my pleasure for reading is being asphyxiated by a time-deficit or stifled under a weight of words.
Or so goes the advertising slogan of Mediterranean Bank, which I’ve been hearing on the radio recently.
From the financial angle, this catchphrase is not the wisest that could have been chosen. Look at Greece, a bankrupt country without even a national consensus on how to pull itself out of the deepening hole. Spain, with unemployment hitting a negative record of 21.3% in the first quarter of this year. In the southern Med we have Libya, an economy shattered by exploding bombs and gunfire, and Egypt, where the cronyism of the Mubarak regime allowed for untold millions of dollars to be siphoned off from the economy. To the east, Syria‘s ruling elite of power-hungry money-mongers is imposing too bloody an exchange rate for the freedom of the inhabitants.
So, is it really that great to be Mediterranean?
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VOA spoke with Lina Ben Mhenni, a Tunisian linguistics teacher and activist who maintains a Facebook page and Twitter feed, as well as the blog “A Tunisian Girl.” Though censored in her own country, her web pages and similar sites like them have been a primary source of news and information for journalists and observers outside the country. Existing restrictions in Tunisia have not deterred her.
“Everything is blocked here,” she says. “I use a proxy to access my blog, my Facebook profile, and …they censored my Twitter account. It is not accessible in Tunisia.”