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Mahdi Krayem • 22 Jun 2026

Why has Israel’s NSO changed its WhatsApp spyware attack strategy?

Earlier this month, Meta announced that it had detected a new spear-phishing attempt linked to the Israeli surveillance group NSO,…

  • Digital Rights
  • Smex
  • لبنان
SMEX • 28 Oct 2025

SMEX Launches Its 2024 Annual Report: Digital Rights in Times of War

Over the past year, the digital rights movement in our region, West Asia and North Africa, has gained unprecedented momentum….

  • Smex
SMEX • 22 Feb 2023

Digital Safety Helpdesk Expands beyond West Asia and North Africa

For the second year in a row, Facebook ranked first as the platform where users faced the highest number of…

  • Digital Rights
  • Digital Safety Helpdesk
  • Facebook
SMEX • 18 Aug 2022

Bread&Net Fiction Prize: Digital Utopias and Futures

  • breadandnet
  • Competition
  • Creative Writing
SMEX • 05 Aug 2022

Notetakers Competition for Bread&Net 2022

  • Bread&Net
  • breadandnet
  • Competition
SMEX • 31 May 2019

Save the Date: Bread&Net is back! 15 to 17 November 2019

SMEX is thrilled to announce the return of Bread&Net, the annual Arabic-language unconference to strengthen and defend human rights in…

  • 2019
  • breadandnet
  • Digital Rights
smexadmin • 28 Nov 2018

It’s a wrap! 4 key takeaways from the first Bread&Net 2018

On November 20 and 21, around 200 people from over 20 countries gathered together in Beirut for 35 panels, talks,…

  • Bread&Net
  • Events
  • Lebanon
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