Digital Citizen is a monthly review of news, policy, and research on human rights and technology in the Arab World. Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah was released from prison on bail in September. In June, Alaa was sentenced to 15 years in jail under Egypt’s infamous anti-protest law. Abd El Fattah has been jailed.

By Areej Abuqudairi The Sharia court in South Amman buzzes with clients on a hot summer day. Squeaky doors and clacking heels mix with whispers of a crowd of men and women waiting in the main hallway to be served by the court staff. Sara’s young face stands out among the crowd and so does.

Helga Tawil-Souri* Israel tends to approach Gaza in two ways. On the one hand, Gaza is considered and treated as a dangerous threat that needs to be sealed off and contained. Various forms of threat are assumed to emanate from Gaza: an existential threat, an Islamic threat, a threat of rockets, a threat of socio-economic.

(This story originally appeared on 7iber in Arabic in April 2014) By Doa Ali, Hussam Da’anah, Sara Obeidat, Mohammad Hijazi, and Sufian Ahmad Most stories that travel the 70 Km from Mafraq to Amman arrive exaggerated or distorted. A shroud of peculiar indifference to detail around this historically marginalized and disenfranchised northern city creates the.

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By Ghassan Atmeh We all use the internet in one way or the other. We check our email, keep track of our friends, pay our bills, read the news, watch videos of funny cats, video call people who are thousands of miles away, watch historical events unfold live from the comfort of our bedrooms, or.

By Reem Almasri Not only was the page of IDF soldier Oron Shaul removed from Facebook after the announcement of his captivity by Hamas, but also posts by users sharing this page were deleted. Below is a screenshot from a journalist that says “I am pretty sure I have shared the page of the captured.

By Mahmoud Ismail (A surviver’s testimonial from the town Khuza’a east of Khan Younis, which was attacked by Israeli aerial strikes and tank shelling, resulting in a massacre the extent of it is not entirely clear yet). We were three thousand people who decided, individually, to ignore all the threats and evacuation orders and to.

Wireless (LaSilkee) is a 7iber program that aims to push the dialogue on the interplay between technology, culture, and politics in Jordan and the region through research-based content. We create critical content that examines the effect of different technologies we use on our understanding of ourselves, communities and politics. It also explores the extent to.

Lina Ejeilat Yesterday the Jordanian Media Commission blocked access to 7iber.org, the alternate domain we began using last year after the Jordanian government first blocked 7iber.com along with roughly 200 other websites based on the amended Press and Publication Law. Despite the ban, or perhaps in part because of it, 7iber went through some exciting changes.