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		<title>We Stopped This Law (for a month)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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The picture says it all, but the post must go on. (Follow the conversation on Twitter.)
Yesterday was a busy day. And now we wait. While you scan your Tweetdecks and iPhones, we want to report  back to you on what&#8217;s happened so far, how you&#8217;ve responded, and what we  might have achieved.
The Background
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACT NOW: Postpone the Vote on the E-Transactions Law</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/06/act-now-postpone-the-vote-on-the-e-transactions-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve written an email in Arabic and English (below) to send to friends and colleagues to try to stop passage of the E-Transactions law tomorrow in the plenary session of Parliament. We encourage you to copy-paste and post it widely. It&#8217;s crucial that we respond immediately. This isn&#8217;t an Internet joke, as Maya Zankoul drew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency: Help Delay the Vote on E-Transactions Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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As we mentioned last week, there&#8217;s a law before parliament (in Arabic) that deals with electronic information, signatures, and e-banking. The vote has been set for Tuesday, June 15. A group of stakeholders will hold an EMERGENCY MEETING tonight, Sunday, June 13, to discuss the law and prepare to block the vote on Tuesday. Join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the New Internet Law in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/06/stop-the-new-internet-law-in-lebanon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/06/stop-the-new-internet-law-in-lebanon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time now, whenever anyone started talking about the relative openness of the Net in Lebanon, people have shushed each other or touched wood, so as not to jinx our one very important advantage over the rest of the region: we have very little restrictions on how we use the machine. Wouldn&#8217;t you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aggregating Feeds for Lebanon&#8217;s Municipal Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/05/aggregated-feeds-for-lebanons-municipal-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/05/aggregated-feeds-for-lebanons-municipal-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 09:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: It really doesn&#8217;t seem to be working. We could use some help. 
We&#8217;re experimenting with Yahoo Pipes to aggregate the RSS feeds for the following hashtags and accounts: #engageleb, #lebloggers, #lebelect, @ladeleb, #hibrme, lebanon+elections, #lebelections, #womencan﻿. We&#8217;ve connected the Fetch Feed module with the Unique operator to reduce repetition by title. The results are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arab Women Technologists Start Rewiring the World in Zouk Mikael</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/05/atwomen-rewiring-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SMEX and Arab Techies have spent the past couple of months organizing a meetup of about 34 women from ten Arab countries to talk about technology, empowerment, entrepreneurship, development, and whatever else they want to put on the table. Participants are programmers, web developers, artists, teachers, professors, PhD students, bloggers, social media experts, activists, NGO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Difference a Year Makes</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Lebanon&#8217;s parliamentary elections in June 2009, citizen media hadn&#8217;t quite achieved the critical mass it needed to mobilize. True, the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) mobilized more than 2,000 SMS-enabled monitors and Sharek961 implemented the first instance of the crowdsourced crisis-mapping application Ushahidi, but beyond these interventions and a handful of existing bloggers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Secular Sunday in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/a-secular-sunday-in-lebanon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday was a gorgeous day in sun and spirit. So, we also wanted to commemorate it with a roundup links to some of the stories about #leblaique and highlighted some of the most poignant observations. We&#8217;d love it if you&#8217;d post links to the Arabic stories about the march in the comments section (there&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing Your WordPress Blog, from abaadblogs</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/securing-your-wp-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/securing-your-wp-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In advance of our Basic Internet Privacy and Security workshop, which we&#8217;re hosting tomorrow in our offices, from 10 am to 4 pm, blogger and web developer Mireille Raad, our very first guest blogger, offered to write up a few tips on securing your WordPress blog from hacking attempts. You&#8217;ll also find this post on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CC-Licensed Post #3: Que pensez-vous des blogs?, via Carpe Diem and Nawaat.org</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/cc-licensed-post-3-que-pensez-vous-des-blogs-via-carpe-diem-and-nawaat-org/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/04/cc-licensed-post-3-que-pensez-vous-des-blogs-via-carpe-diem-and-nawaat-org/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 27, blogger Carpe Diem posted analysis of two polls that had been published in the Tunisian newspaper Le Temps. Carpe Diem (hereafter CD) is a member of Nawaat,  a trilingual Tunisian collective blog chock-full with coverage of news and politics and rich multimedia content (click on the Nawaat 2.0 Hub in the [...]]]></description>
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