Resources
News, research, and campaigns
The latest updates on digital rights from West Asia and North Africa
Categories
Arab Social Media Activists Meet in Amman
Seventeen Arab activists, including myself and Alaa Sayegh representing SMEX, met in the ever-charming city of Amman for a weekend…
#InternetRevolution: For a Better Internet in Egypt
A group of Egyptian activists have launched a campaign targeting the high cost of poor internet service in Egypt. The…
Arab Redditors Catalogue Their Dialects
Arab users of the social news website Reddit, known as Redditors, started the “r/Arabs Dialect Project” to “compile and display…
What are the next steps for the "I Am Not Naked" campaign?
When local media published images of Olympian Alpine Skier Jackie Chamoun participating in a topless photo-shoot three years ago, caretaker…
The Twitter Transparency Report
Released twice a year, the Twitter Transparency Report highlights requests made by a country’s government for account information, content removal,…
Blocked websites in Lebanon 2013
UPDATE, Jan. 9, 2014: After publishing the post below, we started receiving messages leading us to believe that the application of…
Tasharuk in 2014: Publishing topics on a monthly basis
We launched Tasharuk last September to collect and share high-quality guides, reports, and other materials that can help citizens use…