Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Digital Rights Perspectives

• Who: Islam Al Khatib
• Date: Wednesday, June 7
• Time: 9am EDT / 1pm UTC (What time is it in my city?)
• Language: English
• Location: Zoom

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Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Digital Rights perspectives with Islam Al Khatib

In this session we will talk about digital rights in MENA, its perspectives and cases during 2022-2023. The main topics will be:

• Increased campaigns and conversations on digital justice in the region from different contexts (highlighting different campaigns, projects, reports by community members).

• Further state attempts across borders to control flow of information (violations of data privacy, apps that attempted data extraction, digital surveillance, smearing, COP27 in Egypt as an example).

• Community conversations about infrastructure and accessibility (challenges of remote work, financial crises and challenges).

• Wellbeing, burnout, and a collective need for better working conditions (consistent campaigning has lead to severe burnout, examples of crises and catastrophes that has deeply impacted the work of DRDs).

Speaker:

Islam Al Khatib is our MENA Community Lead at Team CommUNITY. She is a Palestinian refugee feminist researcher born and raised in Beirut. Her work focuses on the methods and the processes with which we produce knowledge.