A four hour presentation on manipulation strategies on social media with real life examples (not included here) and my concerns about how AI will be used as a tool to sway public opinion.
Judges and media conference
Presiding Panel #2 – “May the judge communicate?” of the “Judge and Media” Conference organized by the Ministry of Justice with Judge Valerie-Odile DERVIEUX, Judge Fayçal Makki, Attorney and President of the Internet Society – Lebanon Chapter, Mr. Charbel Chbeir, and Mr. mounir younes. My Introduction (translated with Google Translate – Original version in French…
Maharat Foundation – Roundtable on Media & Elections
In the past ten years, I analyzed more than 3 million tweets, posts, and WhatsApp messages related to Lebanon’s social and political crises. Here are some of the key insights I’ve gathered: In my opinion, during the most recent municipal elections, political actors refrained from fully deploying their digital arsenal. For 2026, despite the shift…
The new role of teachers and students for AI evolution readiness
My conference at ESA BUSINESS SCHOOL on how to evolve in a world that will be AI driven This conference was part of the first set of conferences for the Ed’Innov project at SmartESA
Scopus Journal Search for Human Sciences
Saving file list to text file
1- Copy the path to the folder 2- Open a cmd (DOS) prompt by typing cmd in the search box 3- click on “Command Prompt” (screenshot above) and type: Paste the folder name you copied in step one. Then Paste the folder name you copied in step one. Then It should look like this (pasted…
Creating a QR code for multiple contacts
The task: Problems: Solution: BEGIN:VCARDVERSION:2.1ORG:Internal Security Forces (ISF)ADR:;;;;;;LebanonTEL:112EMAIL;INTERNET:isf@isf.gov.lbURL:https://www.isf.gov.lb/N:Lebanon;Police;;;FN:Police LebanonEND:VCARD where FN represents the “First Name”, Org the “Organization”, Tel the phone number, Cell the mobile, etc. BEGIN:VCARDVERSION:2.1N:;Emergency Numbers Lebanon;;;FN:Emergency Numbers LebanonTEL;ISF:112TEL;Red cross:140TEL;Civil Defense:125END:VCARD Special thanks to Aya Chamseddine for helping out with the concept!
Fresh Website 2023, LinkedIn and Instagram Badges
After almost 30 years in the business of web development and hosting, I finally terminated my last hosting server and moved my own WordPress blog to shared hosting. I decided to start the website from scratch, just copying the wp_posts table from the old server to the new one. I had to recreate some of…
Smart Govs III: How Political Players Sway Public Opinion
My input at the “Who investigates the crime?” webinar of the Forum for Memory and Future in partnership with the Institute of Political Science of the Saint-Joseph University Introduction The following work is a collection of tweets analysis (more than half a million tweets) that took place between 2015 and 2021. Discussions take several different…
Converting DVD with VLC
A friend recently asked me how to convert a DVD into MP4 or any other format (AVI, MOV, etc.) quick, free and easy. This is the process of converting DVD chapters or films into MP4 with VideoLan (a.k.a. VLC), a free and open source video player you can download from https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html Step 1: Open VLC…