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Bread&Net 2025: Building a collective movement for digital rights in the WANA region

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Bread&Net took place in Beirut in October 2025, bringing together more than 550 participants from across the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region and beyond. Since then, the political conditions in which the gathering happened have not eased; far from it, they have intensified.  After more than two years without an in-person edition, the […]

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Bread&Net 2021: Towards a growing regional digital rights community

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Bread&Net returned for the fourth time last week, from 23 to 26 November, welcoming around 1000 participants from 74 countries to take part in the regional discourse on digital rights and freedoms in the Arabic-speaking world. Over the course of four days, technologists, organizers, researchers, lawyers, and journalists brought forth their ideas, concerns, insights, and recommendations in

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

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Bread&Net 2020nline welcomed more than 800 participants from 32 countries on Hopin this year! Over four eventful days, we held 63 diverse sessions, with over 100 speakers who joined us to share their valuable insights. Totalitarian Arab regimes, monopolized telecommunications infrastructures, armies of bots promoting fake news, increased surveillance disguised as COVID-19 tracking apps, among

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

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SMEX is thrilled to announce the return of Bread&Net, the annual Arabic-language unconference to strengthen and defend human rights in digitally networked spaces in the MENA region. Join us from 15 to 17 November 2019 at Antwork in Beirut! We took your comments and feedback from last year’s inaugural Bread&Net to heart, and together with

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

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On November 20 and 21, around 200 people from over 20 countries gathered together in Beirut for 35 panels, talks, and workshops at Bread&Net, the region’s digital rights unconference. Hosted by SMEX and organized collaboratively with supporters and partners, Bread&Net created an offline space for discussion about technology and society, in a casual yet safe environment

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Documentary Screening: “The Cleaners”

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Feature image via SMEX: Who controls what we see online? Who controls what we see online? SMEX screened the documentary “The Cleaners” and hosted a discussion yesterday, Sunday 18 November, before the start of regional unconference Bread&Net. “The Cleaners” sheds light on the hidden world of content moderators – thousands of workers who do the largely

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