SMEX: Channeling Advocacy

Egyptian-American VJ Um Amel (VJ Mother of Hope), one of the participants in last year’s Arab Techies Women meeting in Lebanon, made this video remix in support of a free Egypt to help spread the word. Please watch and repost or circulate! #JAN25 #video remix by @vj_um_amel (MUST WATCH 4 #EGYPT) from VJ Um Amel on Vimeo. Read More »

Dear Funders, Partners, and Friends: When we met recently in San Francisco to discuss the E-Mediat program to build the capacity of civil society organizations through the use of digital and social media in the Middle East, we were gratified to see your interest and support. Now, we need your help in calling for a clear statement from President Obama ... Read More »

To express our gratitude for how much we’ve learned from Egyptian activists—and our solidarity with their current struggle—we are reprinting the following call to the people and governments of the free world from the blog of our friends @manal and @alaa. A Call to the People and Governments of the Free World We call upon all of you to support ... Read More »

SMEX spent last week in San Francisco, California, just about the center of the universe for social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and a myriad of other social media giants and upstarts all call the city or its Silicon Valley surroundings home. We went as part of the lead-up to a new project, called E-Mediat, that will conduct basic ... Read More »

If you had five minutes with representatives from some of the top Internet companies in the world, what would you tell them about Arab social media? What should they know? What would you ask for? This Friday, in San Francisco, SMEXbeirut will present about social media in Lebanon and the region to representatives of Twitter, Facebook, Google, Creative Commons, and ... Read More »