SMEX • 19 Dec 2025

SMEX relaunches its Digital Rights Fund (DRF) for 2026!

Disclaimer: Due to the current circumstances and the ongoing war, our team is experiencing some disruptions that may affect our…

Digital Rights Fund in the West Asia and North Africa • 18 Dec 2025

Digital Rights Fund in the West Asia and North Africa

Digital Rights Fund in the West Asia and North Africa  Call for Proposals Disclaimer: Due to the current circumstances and…

Mahdi Krayem • 08 Oct 2025

Drones in Lebanon: Who can fly them and are they legal?

After shooting the celebrations for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary at the Jezzine Municipality, photographer Rami…

Stephanie Nasr • 01 Sep 2025

New content moderation rules harm Arabic SRHR advocacy online

The New Rules of the GameIn early 2025, Instagram and TikTok flagged several Arabic-language sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR)…

SMEX • 22 Apr 2025

Overview of SMEX Panels at RightsCon 2025 

From February 24 to 27, SMEX joined digital rights advocates, technologists, policymakers, and activists from around the world at RightsCon…

Ryan Yunis • 13 Feb 2025

Invasive Israeli-founded bloatware is harvesting data from Samsung users in WANA

Across West Asia and North Africa (WANA), growing concerns about digital surveillance have placed Israeli cybersecurity firms and their software…

Metehan Durmaz • 28 Nov 2024

The new UN Cybercrime Convention: aims and pitfalls

In this series of articles, SMEX analyzes the objectives and limitations of the Cybercrime Convention adopted on August 8, 2024…