SMEX • 16 Sep 2025

Lebanon: Ensure Draft Media Law Upholds Free Expression

Recently Proposed Amendments Would Restrict Rights (Beirut, September 16, 2025) – Lebanon’s parliament should ensure that a draft media law…

  • Freedom of Opinion and Expression Coalition
  • Lebanon
  • Media Freedom
SMEX • 20 Aug 2025

Policy Paper: Reforming Governance in Lebanon’s Mobile Telecom Sector

Decades of political interference, mismanagement, and corruption have rendered Lebanon’s telecom sector dysfunctional. These systemic failures left users with weak…

  • Governance
  • Lebanon
  • Telecoms
Rym Badran • 29 Jul 2025

What are the critical gaps in Lebanon’s internet infrastructure?

The Internet Society’s latest Country Report on Lebanon reveals a paradox at the core of the country’s internet ecosystem. Although…

  • Infrastructure
  • Internet
  • Lebanon
Rym Badran • 24 Jul 2025

To reform Lebanon’s telecom sector, start with better governance

In 2024, frequent telecom outages caused by continued Israeli attacks on crucial infrastructure left thousands of families in the South…

  • Governance
  • Internet
  • Internet access
Abed Kataya • 23 Jul 2025

In Lebanon, a missed payment can cost you your mobile number

Khaled, a Lebanese expatriate, returned home after a year abroad only to discover that his 20-year-old phone number, deeply connected…

  • Lebanon
  • Number portability
  • SIM
Safaa Ayyad • 12 Jun 2025

Starlink in Lebanon: Who Does it Really Serve?

Hooking Lebanon onto Starlink has been a key initiative of Telecommunications Minister Charles Hajj during his current term—one marked by…

  • Data Control
  • Data sovreignty
  • ISP
Safaa Ayyad • 03 Jun 2025

Telecommunications in South Lebanon: Has the Network Recovered After the Ceasefire?

Six months after a fragile ceasefire ended Israel’s full-blown war on Lebanon, many villages in South Lebanon remain without reliable…

  • Governance
  • Lebanon
  • minister of telecommunications