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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Tactic for Creating Change in Lebanon?</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/02/tactics-for-change-in-lebanon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, after Martyrs&#8217; Square cleared out and before Valentines dates began, 10 activists and social media enthusiasts gathered at the SMEX offices in Badaro to watch the new video documentary 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action (2009) and talk about the potential for using digital and social media for positive social change in Lebanon. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanon&#8217;s Online Community Emerges Offline at GeekFest Beirut!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/02/geekfest-beirut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art lounge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who struggle to stay connected in Lebanon—and that would be just about all of us, thanks to Internet speeds that can make waiting for an image or a video to load feel like waiting for Godot—Friday night&#8217;s Geekfest Beirut was a wonder to behold. Never before had so many members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop: Career Development with Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/02/training-career-development-with-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/02/training-career-development-with-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SMEX Training & Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy & Technics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a young Lebanese person looking for a job? Or maybe you already have a job but need freelance work to make ends meet? Are you tired of visiting offices and depositing your resume, knowing that you probably will never hear back from them?
Social media might be able to help you. The strategic use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s All the English-Language Coverage about Wael?</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/what-happened-to-wael/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/what-happened-to-wael/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaa abd el Fattah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Egyptian blogger and filmmaker Wael Abbas, who has used online video to expose police brutality and other human rights abuses in Egypt, was sentenced to six months in prison for a misdemeanor charge of damaging his neighbor&#8217;s internet cable. This week, his appeal was set for February 18.
Most of the time, Abbas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Comment on a Recent Article on the &#8220;Developing Lebanon&#8221; Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/comment-developing-lebanon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/comment-developing-lebanon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Participatory Media Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design & Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
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I tried several times—unsuccessfully—to post this comment on a recent post on the Safadi Foundation USA blog, Developing Lebanon. It&#8217;s an important topic that&#8217;s being raised and I want to continue the discussion, if a bit belatedly. Below is some thinking from SMEX:
I appreciate the mention of our work in Lebanon. It&#8217;s true, we&#8217;re trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>مؤتمر صحفي للحملة المدنية للاصلاح الانتخابي حول الانتخابات البلدية ٢٠١٠</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mohamad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SMEX News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[




لا احد يعلم ما الاصلاحات الاكيدة التي سوف تنفذ 



عقدت الحملة المدنية للاصلاح الانتخابي مؤتمر صحفي نهار الجمعة ٢٢ كانون الثاني في قصر الانيسكو و قد شارك في المؤتمر الصحفي منظمات و جمعيات غير حكومية و ناشطين من مختلف المناطق اللبنانية. تكلم السيد زياد عبد الصمد عن الاصلاحات الضرورية للانتخابات البلدية و عدد ايضا بعض [...]]]></description>
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		<title>تعلم الصحافة في الجامعة الاميركية في بيروت‬</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%83%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%83%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mohamad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SMEX News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[الصحافة المكتوبة الجامعة الاميركية في بيروت]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‫
بكل سرور تعلن جمعية تبادل الاعلام الاجتماعي عن برنامج تعلم الصحافة في الجامعة الاميركية



الشهادة في الصحافة تتابع مسيرتها في الأميركية
ماذا من جديد اليوم؟ ما الذي حدث بالأمس؟ ما الذي يتوقع حدوثه؟
ماذا حدث؟ متى؟ من؟ أين؟ كيف ؟ ولماذا؟ وإذا؟؟

هي أسئلة كثيرة يبادر كل منّا الى طرحها صبيحة كل يوم عما يدور حولنا تلازم تفكيرنا وخطواتنا. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A List Apart, in Arabic: Q&amp;A with the Creators</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/arabic-a-list-apart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/arabic-a-list-apart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech & the Arabic Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design & Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distributed teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week saw the launch of Arabic A List Apart, an official version of the standard-setting A List Apart Magazine, which has been exploring &#8220;the design, development, and meaning of web content&#8221; for more than a decade. The Arabic version was spearheaded by the team of Mohammad Saleh Kayali (editor), Beshr Kayali (web development and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to Expect from SMEX in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/what-to-expect-from-smex-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2010/01/what-to-expect-from-smex-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Badaro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>
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Happy New Year!
November and December were busy months for SMEX. On November 1, we moved into our very own offices in Badaro, where we have a dedicated training space and a space for intimate screenings and events.
On November 21, we hosted a wrap-up event for our second social media training project in Lebanon. Then, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshopping Innovations in Mobile Data Collection in Amman</title>
		<link>http://www.smex.org/2009/12/mobdata-in-amman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smex.org/2009/12/mobdata-in-amman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SMEX Training & Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#mobdata]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mapping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smexevents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that we haven&#8217;t posted in a long time. And we look forward to changing all that with a streamlined and updated online presence in the New Year. Which, as it happens, will also coincide with an updated offline presence in our new offices in the lovely Badaro neighborhood of Beirut. Please bear with [...]]]></description>
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