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Shawarma, Baklava, and Digital Rights Law: Reflections from a Community Workshop on Digital Rights Legal Data at the 2017 Internet Governance Forum
Feature image via SMEX,Geneva, December 19, 2017: SMEX Executive Co-Director Jessica Dheere welcomes participants to our interactive workshop on data,…
Beirut-Based Global Cyber-Espionage Campaign a Threat to Local Freedoms
Feature image via the Dark Caracal technical report: revealing the researchers’ observed locations of compromised devices. A major cyber-espionage campaign…
Misguiding Multistakeholderism: A Non-Governmental Perspective on the Arab IGF
This article was written by SMEX’s Jessica Dheere and Asser Khattab and published in the Global Information Society Watch 2017…
Lebanon IGF Advisory Committee Hosts Pre-Launch Event at AUB
Feature image via Lebanon IGF, Friday, December 8, 2017: Left to right: Jessica Dheere, Roula Mikhael, Dr. Charbel…
Internet Shutdown in Yemen: Recurring Disruptions Threaten Civilian Safety, Human Rights, and Press Freedom
Feature image: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Data depicts the outage of the internet in Yemen on the night of Thursday,…
#FreeMustafaSbeity: With the Detention of Lebanese Poet, Authorities Show Lack of Grace
Update on December 13, 2017: After 15 days of detention, poet Mustafa Sbeity was released on Tuesday, December 12, 2017, after…
MENA Internet Freedom Roundup: October 2017
From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s attempt to criminalize online speech to its development of advanced facial recognition technology,…