The Middle East and North Africa ( #MENA) region is rapidly becoming a global digital hub, particularly for artificial intelligence and cloud computing. But integrating these technologies introduces policy challenges.

As MENA continues its technological development, governments must shape digital policies that support innovation, investment, and an open Internet. Learn more ⬇️ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/01/navigating-data-governance-privacy-intermediary-liability-and-encryption-in-the-rapidly-digitalizing-mena/

📢 The Spanish government has officially enacted a comprehensive ban on the import of all goods produced in Israeli settlements across the #westbank, East Jerusalem (Quds), and the occupied Golan Heights

🔹 This move makes #spain the second European nation to implement such a boycott, following #slovenia ’s lead last August

#news #palestine #genocide

#economy #mena #europe

📰 Report YPA JAN-03 19:30 Sanaa-t

https://en.ypagency.net/381068

📢 The Spanish government has officially enacted a comprehensive ban on the import of all goods produced in Israeli settlements across the #westbank, East Jerusalem (Quds), and the occupied Golan Heights

🔹 This move makes #spain the second European nation to implement such a boycott, following #slovenia ’s lead last August

#news #palestine #genocide

#economy #mena #europe

📰 Report YPA JAN-03 19:30 Sanaa-t

https://en.ypagency.net/381068

Esther Möller (Universität Marburg) – Aid to European #Refugees in #MENA during #WWII : How did colonial, international, and local actors support displaced Europeans ? The keynote talk of the workshop “Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context”.

Dec 3 | 19:00–19:45 CET | GHIP & online

https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindetails/esther-moeller-centre-marc-bloch-aid-to-european-refugees-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-during-world-war-two-colonial-international-and-national-considerations.html

#MiddleEast #NorthAfrica @histodons

Nabil Aziz Ksibi, consultant advising and representing #ORCID in the #MENA region, recently gave a presentation entitled Bridging the Gap: Persistent Identifiers Adoption in the MENA Region as part of the Forum for Open Research in MENA (FORM) Annual Session.

Panel N: Open Science Capacity Building in the Arab World was moderated by Raed Al-Zoubi of Jordan University of Science and Technology and representative for ASREN.

Watch the replay 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJul27Gg0c