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SMEX Joins the IFEX Network!
We are excited to announce that SMEX is now a full member IFEX, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange. The…
After Blasts That Killed 43 People, Lebanon Asks: ‘What About Us?’
Feature image via Twitter @zahri_abbas: The Beirut blasts, claimed by ISIS, killed 43 people. After the deadly Beirut blasts, friends…
Global Voices’ Hisham Almiraat Faces Trial in Morocco
Feature image via Ellery Biddle Morocco in October 2013 : Hisham Almiraat in his home city of El Jadida. Claudio…
How to add a flag to your Facebook profile picture?
If you’ve been active on social media in the past four days, you probably know about the tragedies that have…
Freedom of Expression Regressing in Lebanon, Online and On the Ground
Feature image via Facebook: Student Ashraf al-Rasheeni with a picture of his degree. Five civil activists have spent their eighth…
Free Alaa Campaign Takes Social Media by Storm on the First Anniversary of His Imprisonment
It’s been a year since the imprisonment of Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, an icon of the Egyptian revolution, for…
IPv6 Coordination Meeting, Beirut
Feature image via wikimedia.org. The RIPE NCC, in coordination with Data Consult, presents IPv6 Week in Beirut. IPv6 Week comprises…