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This is where you’ll find discussions around our various project activities, resources in development and commentary on topical discussions in the media, including case studies from across the MENA region.

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Our partnership with Maharat Foundation

As well as the Newsroom’s initial partnership with Raseef22, we have recently also started working with Maharat Foundation, an NGO based in Lebanon who “endeavour to defend the freedom of opinion &...

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Newsroom partnership with Raseef22

Since late 2017, Raseef22 has been working in partnership with the Check Newsroom, demonstrating exactly the kind of relationships we’d like to be establishing with news platforms and organisations...

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#CheckCon 2017 in Beirut

#CheckCon Beirut, April 20-22, 2017 Rethinking the interplay between media, tech & social change in post-2011 MENA January 25, 2017 marked the sixth anniversary of the Egyptian...

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