Yasser Fawzy • 16 Dec 2020

Bread&Net 2020nline | Corporates, Governments and the Pandemic: Threats to Digital Freedom

Bread&Net 2020nline welcomed more than 800 participants from 32 countries on Hopin this year! Over four eventful days, we held…

  • Beirut
  • breadandnet
  • BreadandNet 2020nline
SMEX • 30 Oct 2020

One Year After October 17 Uprising in Lebanon: Summons and Arrests for Online Speech Increase

One Year Since the October 17 Uprising in Lebanon: Summons and Arrests for Online Speech It’s been one year since…

  • Facebook
  • Freedom Of Speech
  • Lebanon
Tala Ramadan • 22 Oct 2020

Remote Learning and the Digital Divide in Lebanon

With the onset of the economic crisis and the pandemic, Lebanon’s educational system has been thrown into turmoil. Education in…

  • Covid-19
  • E-learning
  • Education
SMEX • 06 Oct 2020

Lebanon protests: Authorities prey on digital spaces to silence criticism

This article is a crosspost from Global Voices. Editor’s note: This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative…

  • Beirut
  • Digital Space
  • Freedom Of Expression
Mohamed Taher • 01 Oct 2020

Website Blocking in the Arab Region: Monitoring and Counteraction Techniques

Governments in various Arab countries are increasingly investing in financial and human resources to control internet content and the free…

  • Blocking
  • blocking
  • Egypt
SMEX • 21 Sep 2020

Surveillance in Lebanon: A crisis of privacy

This article is a crosspost from Global Voices. This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative that is…

  • Crosspost
  • Dark Caracal
  • Digital Surveillance
SMEX • 11 Sep 2020

Security Concerns with Lebanon’s New Contact Tracing App

On September 1, the Ministry of Public Health launched Ma3an – Together Against Corona, a contact-tracing application intended to stop…

  • Contact Tracing
  • Corona
  • Coronavirus