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7 posts · joined 2009-04-9

Dr. Tal Pavel is an expert in Middle Eastern and Islamic World usage of the internet. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Bar Ilan University. His thesis examined the governmental restrictions and changes concerning internet usage in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates between the years 2002 and 2005. Dr. Pavel’s background also includes an in-depth knowledge of Information Systems Development. He occupied various key positions as a Software Project Manager and Software Systems Analyst in various major financial and other business institutions in Israel. Dr. Pavel is a fellow researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and at Netvision Institute for Internet Studies (Both in Tel Aviv University).

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On-line Social Networks in Syria

A small portrait of the author Tal Pavel · 14:35, November 6th, 2009 · Syria
Syria was among the last countries in the Middle East to introduce the Internet. On February 24, 1996, the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE) received permission from the prime minister’s office to do so, and to serve as the body responsible for the Country Top-Level Domain Code (sy.). Two weeks later, ... 4 comments  · read »

The Power of 140 Characters: Twitter in the Middle East

A small portrait of the author Tal Pavel · 11:33, September 21st, 2009 · Egypt , Syria
The massive, sustained protests in Iran this past month against the regime’s apparent falsification of the presidential election results was enabled by widespread employment of new communication technologies. Among them is Twitter, the micro-blog which enables its users to distribute short messages of no more than 140 characters ('Tweets') via ... 4 comments  · read »

Once again, Syria bans Facebook

A small portrait of the author Tal Pavel · 15:03, September 17th, 2009 · Syria
Editor's Note: Facebook has been blocked in Syria consistently for the past two years; therefore, the statement that a ban will be "reintroduced" is incorrect. The linked article from  'Al Quds Al Arabi'," which has since been removed, did not actually claim that Syria planned to reintroduce a ban.  The ... 4 comments  · read »

The Other Voice: Women in the Cyberspace Discourse in the Middle East and Islamic World

A small portrait of the author Tal Pavel · 12:06 · News
http://www.dayan.org/Women%20and%20the%20internet.pdf Tel Aviv Notes, Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University - 30 August 2009. In recent years, the Internet has become a swift and accessible means of communication, thanks in part to the proliferation of personal blogs and, even more recently, micro-blogs (through “Twitter”).  Users are now able to transmit short announcements and ... 1 comment  · read »

Liberia government sites are off, and nobody cares

A small portrait of the author Tal Pavel · 16:45 · News
On the night of August 24th. S.W.A.T hackers (probably Iranian team) penetrated 19 governmental web sites including almost all ministries. Most of the sites were down for maintenance for almost three days. Almost all government sites in Liberia fell for days. But when gargbage covers the streets of the capital ... 0 comments  · read »

France: ‘3 Strikes' Internet piracy law defeated in parliament

A small portrait of the author Tal Pavel · 12:41, April 11th, 2009 · France
France's parliament rejected Hadopi (la Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet) bill on Thursday (09.04.2009) with the ruling UMP party failure (21-15) to approve the law. The law proposed two warnings and then, after a third violation, disconnection from the Internet for up ... 1 comment  · read »

Prologue

A small portrait of the author Tal Pavel · 12:18 ·
My name is Tal and I'm proud to join GVA authors' team. I intend to write about online free speech in Israel as well as Internet Filtering in the MENA and other current issues. 0 comments  · read »