As Tunisia gears up for its first democratic elections this Sunday, its popular emerging political parties, like Afek Tounes, have high hopes for spreading their message far and wide.  But if one thing is for certain, the country that lit the spark of revolution in the Arab world is learning that...

The friend request came through on Facebook last January. But there was no photo, only that silhouetted shadow of a man's image. I ignored the request for a couple of months, but then when I logged on to accept a friend request from somebody else, there was his profile picture...