Rawan Damen
@rdamen.bsky.social
Director General - ARIJ. Arab Journalist.
💡 Live | Unlearning Privacy
Happening now! At Mozilla Festival - Udbhav Tiwari @signal.org : “Privacy is not a luxury. It is a human right”.
Featuring also @alexhanna.bsky.social & Lauren Hendry Parsons @mozilla.org
#Privacy #DataProtection #Mozilla #MozFest
Happening now! At Mozilla Festival - Udbhav Tiwari @signal.org : “Privacy is not a luxury. It is a human right”.
Featuring also @alexhanna.bsky.social & Lauren Hendry Parsons @mozilla.org
#Privacy #DataProtection #Mozilla #MozFest
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
💡 Live | Unlearning Privacy
Happening now! At Mozilla Festival - Udbhav Tiwari @signal.org : “Privacy is not a luxury. It is a human right”.
Featuring also @alexhanna.bsky.social & Lauren Hendry Parsons @mozilla.org
#Privacy #DataProtection #Mozilla #MozFest
Happening now! At Mozilla Festival - Udbhav Tiwari @signal.org : “Privacy is not a luxury. It is a human right”.
Featuring also @alexhanna.bsky.social & Lauren Hendry Parsons @mozilla.org
#Privacy #DataProtection #Mozilla #MozFest
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Happening now at our #MozFest stage in Barcelona: Unlearning Privacy with Udbhav Tiwari from Signal, @alexhanna.bsky.social, DAIR Institute, and Lauren Hendry Parsons, Mozilla Foundation.
Follow the live stream 🔴📽️ -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6W...
Follow the live stream 🔴📽️ -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6W...
Unlearning Privacy - Mozilla Festival 2025
YouTube video by Mozilla
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November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Happening now at our #MozFest stage in Barcelona: Unlearning Privacy with Udbhav Tiwari from Signal, @alexhanna.bsky.social, DAIR Institute, and Lauren Hendry Parsons, Mozilla Foundation.
Follow the live stream 🔴📽️ -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6W...
Follow the live stream 🔴📽️ -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6W...
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Read the first commentary by @leticiabode.bsky.social & @pfchap.bsky.social here 👉 www.techpolicy.press/seeing-the-d...
And stay tuned this week for new essays and our launch event at #MozFest 2025 in Barcelona, where we’ll discuss the future of data access, research, and platform accountability.
And stay tuned this week for new essays and our launch event at #MozFest 2025 in Barcelona, where we’ll discuss the future of data access, research, and platform accountability.
Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data | TechPolicy.Press
Introducing a series from Tech Policy Press and the Knight-Georgetown Institute, exploring why public platform data access is vital in today’s digital world.
www.techpolicy.press
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Read the first commentary by @leticiabode.bsky.social & @pfchap.bsky.social here 👉 www.techpolicy.press/seeing-the-d...
And stay tuned this week for new essays and our launch event at #MozFest 2025 in Barcelona, where we’ll discuss the future of data access, research, and platform accountability.
And stay tuned this week for new essays and our launch event at #MozFest 2025 in Barcelona, where we’ll discuss the future of data access, research, and platform accountability.
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In Barcelona this weekend for #MozFest? Stop by the Germ Network booth on Sunday to meet our CEO Tessa and designer Katherine and play with Germ DM for iOS!
Mozilla Festival Schedule
For 15 years, Mozilla Festival has been the home for big ideas, bold conversations, and the movement for a better internet. From November 7th to 9th, we’re bringing that energy back to Barcelona, and…
schedule.mozillafestival.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In Barcelona this weekend for #MozFest? Stop by the Germ Network booth on Sunday to meet our CEO Tessa and designer Katherine and play with Germ DM for iOS!
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Very excited to see cybersecurity creator Tazin Khan speak about everyday threat models and how we get ahead of them.
She’s also chic af. But not on Bluesky!
#MozFest
She’s also chic af. But not on Bluesky!
#MozFest
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Very excited to see cybersecurity creator Tazin Khan speak about everyday threat models and how we get ahead of them.
She’s also chic af. But not on Bluesky!
#MozFest
She’s also chic af. But not on Bluesky!
#MozFest
My first time at Mozilla Festival in #Barcalona
Very interesting discussions.
Do you want to know about AI in Arabic language? Do you want to collaborate with a huge network of journalists & fact checkers in the Arab World?
Join me Sun@14:45 PM at B1.
Thanks @mozilla.org
#MozFest
Very interesting discussions.
Do you want to know about AI in Arabic language? Do you want to collaborate with a huge network of journalists & fact checkers in the Arab World?
Join me Sun@14:45 PM at B1.
Thanks @mozilla.org
#MozFest
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My first time at Mozilla Festival in #Barcalona
Very interesting discussions.
Do you want to know about AI in Arabic language? Do you want to collaborate with a huge network of journalists & fact checkers in the Arab World?
Join me Sun@14:45 PM at B1.
Thanks @mozilla.org
#MozFest
Very interesting discussions.
Do you want to know about AI in Arabic language? Do you want to collaborate with a huge network of journalists & fact checkers in the Arab World?
Join me Sun@14:45 PM at B1.
Thanks @mozilla.org
#MozFest
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Nabiha Syed and @ruha9.bsky.social in conversation on the main stage at #MozFest
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Nabiha Syed and @ruha9.bsky.social in conversation on the main stage at #MozFest
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Opening up #MozFest, @ruha9.bsky.social asks us "who owns the future?" but also problematizing the notion of ownership. Need to shift the question, expanding the vision of how we imagine new futures.
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Opening up #MozFest, @ruha9.bsky.social asks us "who owns the future?" but also problematizing the notion of ownership. Need to shift the question, expanding the vision of how we imagine new futures.
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Not all speed is movement. - Toni Cade Bambara
The world may be ending. But there are other worlds. - Octavia Butler
Some quotes Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social dropped at #MozFest this morning
The world may be ending. But there are other worlds. - Octavia Butler
Some quotes Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social dropped at #MozFest this morning
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Not all speed is movement. - Toni Cade Bambara
The world may be ending. But there are other worlds. - Octavia Butler
Some quotes Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social dropped at #MozFest this morning
The world may be ending. But there are other worlds. - Octavia Butler
Some quotes Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social dropped at #MozFest this morning
Now | At Mozilla Festival in #Barcelona
Opening - Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social Department of African American Studies, Princeton University - #Gaza & genocide is in the heart of “imagination” comprehensive way of thinking. #MozFest
Opening - Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social Department of African American Studies, Princeton University - #Gaza & genocide is in the heart of “imagination” comprehensive way of thinking. #MozFest
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Now | At Mozilla Festival in #Barcelona
Opening - Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social Department of African American Studies, Princeton University - #Gaza & genocide is in the heart of “imagination” comprehensive way of thinking. #MozFest
Opening - Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social Department of African American Studies, Princeton University - #Gaza & genocide is in the heart of “imagination” comprehensive way of thinking. #MozFest
If you are at IPI in Vienna today, come to our panel “Ending Impunity in Gaza” at 12 noon at “Maria Theresia Room” with a central question: how can we end the cycle of impunity for the killing of journalists?
#IPIWoCo25
@globalfreemedia.bsky.social
#IPIWoCo25
@globalfreemedia.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If you are at IPI in Vienna today, come to our panel “Ending Impunity in Gaza” at 12 noon at “Maria Theresia Room” with a central question: how can we end the cycle of impunity for the killing of journalists?
#IPIWoCo25
@globalfreemedia.bsky.social
#IPIWoCo25
@globalfreemedia.bsky.social
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Each life lost is more than a statistic—every journalist was a person, not just a colleague, but a target.
Yesterday, @rdamen.bsky.social, ARIJ's Director General delivered a powerful speech during #iMEdDIJF25 in the session “She Wasn’t Just a Colleague — She Was a Target.”
Yesterday, @rdamen.bsky.social, ARIJ's Director General delivered a powerful speech during #iMEdDIJF25 in the session “She Wasn’t Just a Colleague — She Was a Target.”
September 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Each life lost is more than a statistic—every journalist was a person, not just a colleague, but a target.
Yesterday, @rdamen.bsky.social, ARIJ's Director General delivered a powerful speech during #iMEdDIJF25 in the session “She Wasn’t Just a Colleague — She Was a Target.”
Yesterday, @rdamen.bsky.social, ARIJ's Director General delivered a powerful speech during #iMEdDIJF25 in the session “She Wasn’t Just a Colleague — She Was a Target.”
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At #iMEdDIJF25, @rdamen.bsky.social honours the murdered journalists in Gaza and urges newsrooms to "stop outsourcing courage to freelancers while outsourcing responsibility to silence".
September 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
At #iMEdDIJF25, @rdamen.bsky.social honours the murdered journalists in Gaza and urges newsrooms to "stop outsourcing courage to freelancers while outsourcing responsibility to silence".
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At yesterday's #DWFreedom deep-dive, researcher Samar Sabry and regional experts @rdamen.bsky.social and @amhanna.bsky.social explored our State of Media Development Report's findings and recommendations for the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Read more here: lnkd.in/enggp8Ss
Read more here: lnkd.in/enggp8Ss
September 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
At yesterday's #DWFreedom deep-dive, researcher Samar Sabry and regional experts @rdamen.bsky.social and @amhanna.bsky.social explored our State of Media Development Report's findings and recommendations for the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Read more here: lnkd.in/enggp8Ss
Read more here: lnkd.in/enggp8Ss
The Guardian's great, former Middle East correspondent David Hirst has left our world.
He was a deep serious voice in my documentary Al Nakba.
youtu.be/H7FML0wzJ6A?...
He was a deep serious voice in my documentary Al Nakba.
youtu.be/H7FML0wzJ6A?...
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
September 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The Guardian's great, former Middle East correspondent David Hirst has left our world.
He was a deep serious voice in my documentary Al Nakba.
youtu.be/H7FML0wzJ6A?...
He was a deep serious voice in my documentary Al Nakba.
youtu.be/H7FML0wzJ6A?...
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We are proud to announce that ARIJ Director General, @rdamen.bsky.social, has been elected for the @gfmd.info steering committee. Rawan Damen joins 16 other members in the committee, 13 of whom are women.
More details ⬇️
gfmd.info/steering-com...
More details ⬇️
gfmd.info/steering-com...
GFMD Members Elect New Steering Committee for 2025–2029
The new Steering Committee will officially begin its four-year term on 20 November 2025 at an in-person meeting during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
gfmd.info
July 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
We are proud to announce that ARIJ Director General, @rdamen.bsky.social, has been elected for the @gfmd.info steering committee. Rawan Damen joins 16 other members in the committee, 13 of whom are women.
More details ⬇️
gfmd.info/steering-com...
More details ⬇️
gfmd.info/steering-com...
Caught between the need to find food and the duty to report, many are too weak to work. Exhausted and malnourished, they fear starvation will silence their voices, leaving Gaza without those who bear witness.
🎥 Watch the full video: youtube.com/shorts/pBpld...
🎥 Watch the full video: youtube.com/shorts/pBpld...
July 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
July 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’
‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’
When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime. Then Trump got back into power ... Is it time to move again?
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’
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Former Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti, now a coach for Brazil’s national team, was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term and more than $450K fine for tax fraud. He appeared in ICIJ’s #PandoraPapers. www.icij.org/investigatio...
Former Real Madrid manager mentioned in Pandora Papers receives suspended jail term in tax fraud case - ICIJ
Spanish courts hit Carlo Ancelotti, now head coach of Brazil, with a one-year suspended prison term and a fine.
www.icij.org
July 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Former Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti, now a coach for Brazil’s national team, was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term and more than $450K fine for tax fraud. He appeared in ICIJ’s #PandoraPapers. www.icij.org/investigatio...
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Justin Timberlake concert scheduled for next week in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, has prompted local backlash in the form of an online petition calling for the American pop artist to condemn what it describes as a “dark authoritarian turn” in the country.
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www.occrp.org/en/news/fans...
Fans Urge Justin Timberlake to Condemn Georgia Crackdown Ahead of Tbilisi Show
Fans of the SexyBack star have launched an online petition urging Timberlake to condemn “repression unfolding in Georgia” ahead of his appearance at a scheduled concert in Tbilisi next week hosted as ...
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July 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Justin Timberlake concert scheduled for next week in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, has prompted local backlash in the form of an online petition calling for the American pop artist to condemn what it describes as a “dark authoritarian turn” in the country.
www.occrp.org/en/news/fans...
www.occrp.org/en/news/fans...
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🚨📣 My latest investigation has reached the EU Parliament.
European-trained military/police dogs are being exported and used by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians. @arijnetwork.bsky.social @binvestigations.bsky.social
#HumanRights
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
European-trained military/police dogs are being exported and used by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians. @arijnetwork.bsky.social @binvestigations.bsky.social
#HumanRights
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
Parliamentary question | The export and use of European dogs as weapons against Palestinian civilians | E-002814/2025 | European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002814/2025 to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Rule 144 Anja Hazekamp (The Left), Sebastia...
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July 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚨📣 My latest investigation has reached the EU Parliament.
European-trained military/police dogs are being exported and used by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians. @arijnetwork.bsky.social @binvestigations.bsky.social
#HumanRights
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
European-trained military/police dogs are being exported and used by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians. @arijnetwork.bsky.social @binvestigations.bsky.social
#HumanRights
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
Thanks @gfmd.info members for the trust 🌷🙏
We are proud to announce that ARIJ Director General, @rdamen.bsky.social, has been elected for the @gfmd.info steering committee. Rawan Damen joins 16 other members in the committee, 13 of whom are women.
More details ⬇️
gfmd.info/steering-com...
More details ⬇️
gfmd.info/steering-com...
GFMD Members Elect New Steering Committee for 2025–2029
The new Steering Committee will officially begin its four-year term on 20 November 2025 at an in-person meeting during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
gfmd.info
July 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thanks @gfmd.info members for the trust 🌷🙏
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📣 ARIJ Director General @rdamen.bsky.social will speak at “Connected & Protected: Community Responses to Digital Harms in Jordan”.
🗓️17 July
📍Fairmont Amman | 🕐 12:30–15:30
The event brings together voices from media, tech, gov & civil society to explore how tech can empower—not harm—communities.
🗓️17 July
📍Fairmont Amman | 🕐 12:30–15:30
The event brings together voices from media, tech, gov & civil society to explore how tech can empower—not harm—communities.
July 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📣 ARIJ Director General @rdamen.bsky.social will speak at “Connected & Protected: Community Responses to Digital Harms in Jordan”.
🗓️17 July
📍Fairmont Amman | 🕐 12:30–15:30
The event brings together voices from media, tech, gov & civil society to explore how tech can empower—not harm—communities.
🗓️17 July
📍Fairmont Amman | 🕐 12:30–15:30
The event brings together voices from media, tech, gov & civil society to explore how tech can empower—not harm—communities.
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⭕️ This week, ARIJ Board of Directors meeting convened in Copenhagen to review strategic priorities for the second half of 2025. The discussions focused on navigating funding cuts & regional political turbulence, investigative reports, fact-checking, and AI at ARIJ.
June 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
⭕️ This week, ARIJ Board of Directors meeting convened in Copenhagen to review strategic priorities for the second half of 2025. The discussions focused on navigating funding cuts & regional political turbulence, investigative reports, fact-checking, and AI at ARIJ.