SMEX
@smex.org
SMEX is a nonprofit dedicated to safeguarding human rights in digital spaces across West Asia and North Africa.
There is no doubt that 2024 was challenging. Even amid war, instability, and the upheavals still reshaping our region, we found ways to protect and advance our human rights online.
Explore the full story in SMEX’s 2024 Activity Report: smex.org/smex-launche...
Explore the full story in SMEX’s 2024 Activity Report: smex.org/smex-launche...
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
There is no doubt that 2024 was challenging. Even amid war, instability, and the upheavals still reshaping our region, we found ways to protect and advance our human rights online.
Explore the full story in SMEX’s 2024 Activity Report: smex.org/smex-launche...
Explore the full story in SMEX’s 2024 Activity Report: smex.org/smex-launche...
Calling all stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, and academics interested in the internet and its governance: register to attend the Lebanon Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on December 10 and 11, 2025 at the Beirut Digital District (BDD).
Register: IGFLebanon.org/registration/
Register: IGFLebanon.org/registration/
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Calling all stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, and academics interested in the internet and its governance: register to attend the Lebanon Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on December 10 and 11, 2025 at the Beirut Digital District (BDD).
Register: IGFLebanon.org/registration/
Register: IGFLebanon.org/registration/
Tomorrow, participants from across the region will gather in Beirut to defend and advance digital rights!
Follow us to keep up with our updates during Bread&Net 2025! #BreadandNet
Follow us to keep up with our updates during Bread&Net 2025! #BreadandNet
October 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Tomorrow, participants from across the region will gather in Beirut to defend and advance digital rights!
Follow us to keep up with our updates during Bread&Net 2025! #BreadandNet
Follow us to keep up with our updates during Bread&Net 2025! #BreadandNet
Bread&Net's platform is now LIVE! 🎉
You can check the agenda, build your schedule, and connect with speakers and attendees before the event.
Complete your registration on www.breadandnet.org and check out the stellar line-up of speakers taking part in Bread&Net this year.
You can check the agenda, build your schedule, and connect with speakers and attendees before the event.
Complete your registration on www.breadandnet.org and check out the stellar line-up of speakers taking part in Bread&Net this year.
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Bread&Net's platform is now LIVE! 🎉
You can check the agenda, build your schedule, and connect with speakers and attendees before the event.
Complete your registration on www.breadandnet.org and check out the stellar line-up of speakers taking part in Bread&Net this year.
You can check the agenda, build your schedule, and connect with speakers and attendees before the event.
Complete your registration on www.breadandnet.org and check out the stellar line-up of speakers taking part in Bread&Net this year.
Program's out!🎉
Over 70 human rights defenders, journalists, tech experts, and researchers from across the globe join us this year to share their insights and findings from 2025.
Explore the sessions at breadandnet.org.
Over 70 human rights defenders, journalists, tech experts, and researchers from across the globe join us this year to share their insights and findings from 2025.
Explore the sessions at breadandnet.org.
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Program's out!🎉
Over 70 human rights defenders, journalists, tech experts, and researchers from across the globe join us this year to share their insights and findings from 2025.
Explore the sessions at breadandnet.org.
Over 70 human rights defenders, journalists, tech experts, and researchers from across the globe join us this year to share their insights and findings from 2025.
Explore the sessions at breadandnet.org.
Join SMEX for the launch of the CADE Mapping & Baseline Study Report on civil society in internet governance, spotlighting Global South voices.
📅 Oct 2, 2025. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 Oct 2, 2025. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Join SMEX for the launch of the CADE Mapping & Baseline Study Report on civil society in internet governance, spotlighting Global South voices.
📅 Oct 2, 2025. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 Oct 2, 2025. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Is your device acting out? Don’t ignore the signs.
This short guide provided by our Digital Forensics Lab (DFL) walks you through what to look for, what not to do, and the safe steps to take next, whether you are using an Android or an iOS device.
This short guide provided by our Digital Forensics Lab (DFL) walks you through what to look for, what not to do, and the safe steps to take next, whether you are using an Android or an iOS device.
September 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Is your device acting out? Don’t ignore the signs.
This short guide provided by our Digital Forensics Lab (DFL) walks you through what to look for, what not to do, and the safe steps to take next, whether you are using an Android or an iOS device.
This short guide provided by our Digital Forensics Lab (DFL) walks you through what to look for, what not to do, and the safe steps to take next, whether you are using an Android or an iOS device.
Great news for everyone!
We've created tickets at reduced prices to accommodate all attendees. Head to our website breadandnet.org and get your discounted community ticket for the price of $40 to attend the event in person, in full.
Students get in for free!
We've created tickets at reduced prices to accommodate all attendees. Head to our website breadandnet.org and get your discounted community ticket for the price of $40 to attend the event in person, in full.
Students get in for free!
September 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Great news for everyone!
We've created tickets at reduced prices to accommodate all attendees. Head to our website breadandnet.org and get your discounted community ticket for the price of $40 to attend the event in person, in full.
Students get in for free!
We've created tickets at reduced prices to accommodate all attendees. Head to our website breadandnet.org and get your discounted community ticket for the price of $40 to attend the event in person, in full.
Students get in for free!
Bread&Net is West Asia and North Africa’s oldest digital rights gathering, bringing together journalists, advocates, researchers, and technologists from the region and beyond.
We can’t wait to welcome old friends and make new ones this year!
Head to breadandnet.org and secure your spot.
We can’t wait to welcome old friends and make new ones this year!
Head to breadandnet.org and secure your spot.
August 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Bread&Net is West Asia and North Africa’s oldest digital rights gathering, bringing together journalists, advocates, researchers, and technologists from the region and beyond.
We can’t wait to welcome old friends and make new ones this year!
Head to breadandnet.org and secure your spot.
We can’t wait to welcome old friends and make new ones this year!
Head to breadandnet.org and secure your spot.
Good news for students! Free entry to #BreadandNet 2025 🥳
Just present a valid university ID to [email protected] when you register at breadandnet.org.
We’re excited to welcome you to the region’s largest digital rights gathering this October, in Beirut.
Just present a valid university ID to [email protected] when you register at breadandnet.org.
We’re excited to welcome you to the region’s largest digital rights gathering this October, in Beirut.
August 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Good news for students! Free entry to #BreadandNet 2025 🥳
Just present a valid university ID to [email protected] when you register at breadandnet.org.
We’re excited to welcome you to the region’s largest digital rights gathering this October, in Beirut.
Just present a valid university ID to [email protected] when you register at breadandnet.org.
We’re excited to welcome you to the region’s largest digital rights gathering this October, in Beirut.
Registration is open! If you want to be part of the largest digital rights gathering in the West Asia and North Africa region, head to our website and sign up to attend. Students access the event for free!
August 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Registration is open! If you want to be part of the largest digital rights gathering in the West Asia and North Africa region, head to our website and sign up to attend. Students access the event for free!
Registration is open! If you want to be part of the largest digital rights gathering in the West Asia and North Africa region, head to our website and sign up to attend. Students access the event for free!
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Registration is open! If you want to be part of the largest digital rights gathering in the West Asia and North Africa region, head to our website and sign up to attend. Students access the event for free!
We’re opening our doors to 50+ speakers from across West Asia and North Africa to share their real-life work and experiences advocating for a free and open internet.
Join us in Beirut this October at the region’s largest digital rights meetup!
🎟️ Free registration for students.
breadandnet.org.
Join us in Beirut this October at the region’s largest digital rights meetup!
🎟️ Free registration for students.
breadandnet.org.
August 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We’re opening our doors to 50+ speakers from across West Asia and North Africa to share their real-life work and experiences advocating for a free and open internet.
Join us in Beirut this October at the region’s largest digital rights meetup!
🎟️ Free registration for students.
breadandnet.org.
Join us in Beirut this October at the region’s largest digital rights meetup!
🎟️ Free registration for students.
breadandnet.org.
We've extended the deadline to submit a proposal for Bread&Net 2025! If you've got ideas, we want to hear them. ALL of them!
breadandnet.org
breadandnet.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
We've extended the deadline to submit a proposal for Bread&Net 2025! If you've got ideas, we want to hear them. ALL of them!
breadandnet.org
breadandnet.org
📢 We’re excited to share that Lebanon IGF 2025 will take place on 2-3 December 2025, hosted by the American University of Beirut at the Beirut Digital District!
Workshop proposals are now open! Submit an idea for a session by August 3, 2025.
🔗 Details & submission form: igflebanon.org/workshop/
Workshop proposals are now open! Submit an idea for a session by August 3, 2025.
🔗 Details & submission form: igflebanon.org/workshop/
July 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
📢 We’re excited to share that Lebanon IGF 2025 will take place on 2-3 December 2025, hosted by the American University of Beirut at the Beirut Digital District!
Workshop proposals are now open! Submit an idea for a session by August 3, 2025.
🔗 Details & submission form: igflebanon.org/workshop/
Workshop proposals are now open! Submit an idea for a session by August 3, 2025.
🔗 Details & submission form: igflebanon.org/workshop/
SMEX stands in solidarity with Laila Soueif and demands the immediate release of her son, his continued detention is a violation of basic rights and a failure of justice. #FreeAlaa #SaveLaila
@freedomforalaa.bsky.social
@freedomforalaa.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
SMEX stands in solidarity with Laila Soueif and demands the immediate release of her son, his continued detention is a violation of basic rights and a failure of justice. #FreeAlaa #SaveLaila
@freedomforalaa.bsky.social
@freedomforalaa.bsky.social
Looking for a wrap-up of digital rights news and updates from the WANA region? 📨 Subscribe to #TheByte, our monthly newsletter. From this month's issue: AI Investments in the Gulf, Starlink in Lebanon, job openings, and Bread&Net 2025
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June 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Looking for a wrap-up of digital rights news and updates from the WANA region? 📨 Subscribe to #TheByte, our monthly newsletter. From this month's issue: AI Investments in the Gulf, Starlink in Lebanon, job openings, and Bread&Net 2025
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SMEX is attending IGF 2025 in Norway to participate, speak, and engage with the global internet governance community
@intgovforum.bsky.social
Under this year’s theme, "Building Digital Governance Together," the forum offers a range of sessions exploring key digital rights issues.
@intgovforum.bsky.social
Under this year’s theme, "Building Digital Governance Together," the forum offers a range of sessions exploring key digital rights issues.
June 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
SMEX is attending IGF 2025 in Norway to participate, speak, and engage with the global internet governance community
@intgovforum.bsky.social
Under this year’s theme, "Building Digital Governance Together," the forum offers a range of sessions exploring key digital rights issues.
@intgovforum.bsky.social
Under this year’s theme, "Building Digital Governance Together," the forum offers a range of sessions exploring key digital rights issues.
If your work falls at the intersection of technology and human rights, we’re looking for you for Bread&Net 2025.
Submit a workshop, talk, or presentation before July 15, 2025.
Want to know more? Visit breadandnet.secure-platform.com/site/ or reach out on [email protected].
Submit a workshop, talk, or presentation before July 15, 2025.
Want to know more? Visit breadandnet.secure-platform.com/site/ or reach out on [email protected].
May 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
If your work falls at the intersection of technology and human rights, we’re looking for you for Bread&Net 2025.
Submit a workshop, talk, or presentation before July 15, 2025.
Want to know more? Visit breadandnet.secure-platform.com/site/ or reach out on [email protected].
Submit a workshop, talk, or presentation before July 15, 2025.
Want to know more? Visit breadandnet.secure-platform.com/site/ or reach out on [email protected].
📡 Ready for Bread & Net 2025?!
The leading unconference on digital rights in WANA is back! After a two-year hiatus, we’re returning to Beirut for a highly anticipated in-person gathering.
👀 Dates will be announced soon, stay tuned!
The leading unconference on digital rights in WANA is back! After a two-year hiatus, we’re returning to Beirut for a highly anticipated in-person gathering.
👀 Dates will be announced soon, stay tuned!
March 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📡 Ready for Bread & Net 2025?!
The leading unconference on digital rights in WANA is back! After a two-year hiatus, we’re returning to Beirut for a highly anticipated in-person gathering.
👀 Dates will be announced soon, stay tuned!
The leading unconference on digital rights in WANA is back! After a two-year hiatus, we’re returning to Beirut for a highly anticipated in-person gathering.
👀 Dates will be announced soon, stay tuned!
Apply to the Digital Rights Fund!
SMEX is supporting a number of community-oriented, rapid-response projects intended to safeguard digital rights in the SWANA region.
🔗The committee will check proposals on a monthly basis; submit your proposals here: smex.org/digital-rights-fund/
SMEX is supporting a number of community-oriented, rapid-response projects intended to safeguard digital rights in the SWANA region.
🔗The committee will check proposals on a monthly basis; submit your proposals here: smex.org/digital-rights-fund/
November 25, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Apply to the Digital Rights Fund!
SMEX is supporting a number of community-oriented, rapid-response projects intended to safeguard digital rights in the SWANA region.
🔗The committee will check proposals on a monthly basis; submit your proposals here: smex.org/digital-rights-fund/
SMEX is supporting a number of community-oriented, rapid-response projects intended to safeguard digital rights in the SWANA region.
🔗The committee will check proposals on a monthly basis; submit your proposals here: smex.org/digital-rights-fund/
Today, Alaa Abdelfattah should have been celebrating his 42nd birthday with his friends and family. Instead, Alaa remains unjustly imprisoned in Wadi al-Natroun Prison.
November 18, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Today, Alaa Abdelfattah should have been celebrating his 42nd birthday with his friends and family. Instead, Alaa remains unjustly imprisoned in Wadi al-Natroun Prison.
On September 12, Libya witnessed minor internet shutdowns following the floods in the city of Derna.
Though the connection seems to be restored, @internetsociety.bsky.social reports that many users still face internet connection issues.
Though the connection seems to be restored, @internetsociety.bsky.social reports that many users still face internet connection issues.
September 21, 2023 at 3:15 PM
On September 12, Libya witnessed minor internet shutdowns following the floods in the city of Derna.
Though the connection seems to be restored, @internetsociety.bsky.social reports that many users still face internet connection issues.
Though the connection seems to be restored, @internetsociety.bsky.social reports that many users still face internet connection issues.