The Social Arab Web 2.0 event will be held in Beirut, Lebanon from 7-12 December.

A great group of bloggers and new media enthusiasts from all over the Arab world will gather for a week to exchange knowledge, share experiences and learn from each other about the emerging trends in new media and the social web, focusing primarily on relevance to the Arab region and the Arabic language.

During the event, I will be talking about how we have been working at Meedan to break the language barrier for access to knowledge and access to each other, and how the tools we have been developing can serve bloggers and social media professionals in the Arab region. You can check the event's program on the event's website.

I will be talking at the Copyright Protection in the Digital Age workshop at the Library of Alexandria from 29 September - 1 October 2009 in Alexandria, Egypt

This workshop will focus on copyright issues and the new tools to access and disseminate knowledge in the Arab countries.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• An introduction to copyright laws, definitions, international treaties and works protected by copyright
• The World Intellectual Property Organization and its Development Agenda proposed by developing countries in 2004
• New tools to access and disseminate knowledge: Creative Commons licenses, Free and Open Source Software and open access
• Creative Commons licenses in the Arab world
• Licensing in the digital age
• The protection of software and databases

My presentation at the Arab Media Centre in the University of Westminster, London

My presentation at the "Intellectual Property in the Digital Era" Workshop at Bibliotheca Alexandrina