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The monthly meetups bring together folks from the MENA region to share, connect, seek help, and release stress by celebrating each other. In addition, it's a time for us to find ways to support each other, and help us understand what is happening in our part of the world. If you cannot attend the monthly meetups, we are taking notes of each gathering and linking to them below.

 '''Meet me at El Sala'''
 Besides educational workshops and video based meetups, the MENA group is now offering 1-hour, text based chat that features different people from the international digital rights scenes and not only from MENA. The aim is to overlape with different international groups, and to bring more voices from our region to the international digital rights scene. This format will help people get introduced to new projects, build attention to specific cases, to recruit volunteers, testers, researchers, and other things! This takes place in the MENA room on the '''[[IFF Mattermost|IFF Mattermost]]'''.

The MENA community is connected during the week in different ways. Either through various MENA-focused channels on the '''[[IFF Mattermost|IFF Mattermost]]''' or via '''[[Calendar_of_Events|different events organized]]''' on various topics during the year. 

==Next Events==

<span style="font-size:larger"> '''Monthly Meetup / Thursday, May 20th''' </span>

'''Time:''' TBA

'''Who:''' Facilitated by Rima and Wafaa

'''Where:''' The Meetjitsi link will be shared in the [https://community.internetfreedomfestival.org/community/channels/mena Regional:MENA Channel] on the IFF Mattermost one or two hours before the start of the meeting.  Don't have an account to the IFF Mattermost? [[IFF_Mattermost|you can request one following the directions here.]]

== Notes from Past Meetings ==

[[May 20 2021, MENA Meetup]]

[[April 15 2021, MENA Meetup]]

[[March 4 2021, MENA Meetup]]

[[February 4 2021, MENA Meetup]]

[[December 10 2020, MENA Meetup]]

[[Meet Me at El Sala: December 1, 2020|December 1 2020, Meet Me at El Sala]]

[[November 20 2020, MENA Meetup]]

[[November 13 2020, MENA Meetup]]

[[October 29 2020, MENA Meetup]]

[[October 15 2020, MENA Meetup]]

[[September 24 2020, MENA Meetup]]

[[September 15 2020 MENA Notes]]