SMEX • 22 Jan 2025

Manifesto: Towards a Productive and Equitable Telecommunications Sector in Lebanon

We oppose treating the telecommunications sector as a means to impose indirect tax on Lebanon’s residents. We instead call for…

Disinfo Analyst • 21 Jan 2025

Disinformation fuels sectarian unrest in Syria  [Opinion]

After over half a century of oppression under the Assad regime, on December 8, 2024, Syrians awoke to a new…

SMEX • 20 Jan 2025

ToTok, Baz and Others: UAE and KSA Promote Unsafe Communication Apps

Since October 7, 2023, several social media applications have removed content related to Palestine. This shadowbanning, that continues until today,…

SMEX • 17 Jan 2025

Iraq : Balgh platform marks two years as a tool of repression

We, the undersigned human rights organisations, strongly condemn the Iraqi authorities’ continued use of the Balgh platform to monitor online…

Dionysia Peppa • 09 Jan 2025

Meta in X’s steps: how new content moderation policy changes endanger the digital space in WANA and abroad

In a video published on January 7, 2025, Meta’s multibillionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg informed users about new policy changes that…

Salam Freihat • 11 Dec 2024

Social media might be harming pregnant women’s mental and physical health

After eight months of marriage, Rana, a young Jordanian living in Amman, discovered she was pregnant. She had just started…

Yasmina El Zein • 06 Dec 2024

Lebanon’s students battle war, displacement, and a failing education system

The outbreak of Israel’s war on Lebanon has forcibly displaced about 1.2 million people from their homes and disrupted the…