Middle East

Mideast Youth has proudly launched Mideast Tunes this morning – in other words, music for social change!
Music is a powerful form of expression and is currently underrated, although it can be used in activism. Meanwhile, Free speech can be magnified through music. And this is exactly what inspired us with Mideast Tunes.
Mideast Tunes, which comes [...]

Friendship has many definitions and it has been a topic since 2500 years ago when Aristotle in his book, Nichomachean Ethics, tried to define it. By the way here I don’t want to talk about Aristotle or definition of friendship.
I’ve been an author here at MEY when I felt I have something to share [...]

The day’s coming. Streets are filled with people. Red is the typical color of most shops; Color of Love: Aritificial Hearts, Teddy Bears, Rose flowers, Chocolate boxes. Good days for sellers as well, to fill their pockets with price of ‘LoVe’!
As a multi-million dollar industry, It’s getting just an “opportunity” for companies to take more [...]

Transcript of Turkish Prime Minister Erodgen’s famous ‘one minute’ speech at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland

Over the month of January, we at Migrant-Rights.org have covered cases of abuse against migrant workers in Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Qatar, the UAE, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Following our documentation of several cases of suicide and attempted suicide by domestic workers in Kuwait, the Kuwait Times has published an expose on the subject. [...]

Prof. Galtung is one of the most important dissident intellectuals of our time; distinguished professor of Sociology, Peace and conflict research and world renowned founder of the academic discipline of peace research and founder of PRIO, is currently director of TRANSCEND, a global peace and development network. He has served at so many universities that [...]

10 years ago today, Middle East Youth would have probably been backing up all their information on paper with the fear of the Y2K lingering. As we dawned on the Y2K era we were scared – very scared. We thought that if computers could survive it, then we’ll live happily ever after.
Looking back at the [...]

After around two months of international phone calls, this Sunday and Monday Green Prophet hosted a whirlwind two-day (20-hour) seminar on environmental blogging in Madaba, Jordan.
Thanks to the good efforts of Volunteers for Peace and the Masar Center, nearly 20 Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli writers and activists met for the first time and learned about [...]

December 3, 2009 passes, just another day among 365 days of the year. But no day here is boring. I videotape at length (mostly for another project) but put a tiny bit on YouTube to give you a visual to accompany this description since I am still experimenting with video productions but hopefully will get [...]

Rima Malallah, a young woman living and creating in Amman, Jordan, is bringing her colorful handmade art to the Ammanian masses.  Different from other galleries in Amman, Malallah offers a wide variety of products (including original paintings, prints, postcards, journals, cards, jewelry, handpainted ties, hand-knit scarves, bottle vases, key chains and coasters) and encourages interaction [...]