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Why Boycott Lebanon’s Mobile Phone Operators, Alfa and touch?
A self-described independent youth movement is waging what it is referring to as a “polite struggle” (الكفاح_المهذب#) against state corruption…
SMEX Launches Inaugural Report on Digital Surveillance in Lebanon
In the absence of a comprehensive constitutional framework on privacy rights and data protection in Lebanon and amid a…

A Crowdmapping Initiative to Medically-Check the Homeless
Feature image via Wikimedia Commons. The increasing number of homeless people in Beirut streets can be attributed to…

#HACKINGEXTREMISM: How Did Community Groups Counter Violent Extremism?
Feature image via Smex: Maya and Nancy Yamout, “Rescue Me” organization. The advancement of the internet and…

Preparing New Voices to Shape Internet Governance in the Middle East
Feature image via Smex.org: Participants, partners and organizers of the 2016 Middle East and Adjoining Countries School on Internet Governance…