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Among the first activists to introduce freedom of expression onto the agenda of human rights NGOs in the MENA region, when the issue of free speech was considered a Western bourgeois luxury by the leftist nationalists and the Islamists. - Wrote more than 50 reports on differents aspects of freedom of expression and the press in the states of the Arab region - Trained a dozen of now leading Arab human rights activists on freedom of expression issues and advocacy - Founded the Euromed Human Rights Network (EHRN), based in Copenhagen in 1997 - Launched the first regional NGO (CMF MENA) specialising on research and advocacy on media freedom issues in the MENA region in 1998 in London. - Mo...