Creativity

Managers of my dream school, only concerned with sharing their affections, traditionally reserved for their own kids, with orphans.
My dream school’s statute, comprised of only one article, no exception or discretion included in it. “Your only income shall be the peace you earn by serving the disadvantaged.”
My real friends, each of them, playing a role [...]

We’re starting off the year with a new podcast, and this time with Marwan Kamel, lead singer of the punk Middle Eastern band “Al Thawra.” I could try my luck writing my own introduction of this awesome band, but I wouldn’t be able to top my friend Daniela who wrote about them on Mideast Youth [...]

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We’re pleased to announce a brand new competition and Facebook application for MEYArabic. The events that come along with MEYArabic first anniversary celebrations, in style.
The new competition will put all the blogs of passing month, at the beginning of every new month, head-to-head to compete hot-on-heels for the elegant virtual awards, The Featured Blog of [...]

One night, three friends in Khartoum , Sudan acted on their dissapointment. They wanted to encourage people to register to vote and then, vote in the general elections, so they started “Girifna”

Dear friends,
The last couple of weeks have been quite busy for the Alliance for Kurdish Rights campaign, one of our earliest projects. Aside from a complete redesign of our website, we just launched our latest video, which we’ve worked very hard on

Haroon R. Abu Arra is a 23 year old born in Aqqaba, Palestine. He studied in Aqqaba until he reached secondary school where he left to Jenin to work in a TV and radio station where he requested to become a broadcaster. He started preparing for his first program called “Qethart Al Layel,” a music [...]

This is what the United 4 Iran movement has in storage for tomorrow: “a day devoted to worldwide displays of musical, visual, and performing arts highlighting the issues of human rights in Iran.”
We are proud to be collaborating with United 4 Iran on this project alongside Shahrzad Dance Company, Kala Art Institute, Design Action Collective, [...]

“Arabicast Shabaket Shabab Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat.” Prepare yourself, as your ears will take on this frequently, since you’ll not stop listening to our Arabicasts. It reads, Middle East Youth Network Arabicast.
MEYCast has launched in December 2006, and here we go with the brand new Arabicast on December 2009. Not only 3 years since the MEYCast début, [...]

Kurdish Festival is a celebration of Kurdish Heritage in the United States. The festival will stretch a span of three days. During which, Kurds and non-Kurds, from a variety of backgrounds and across the U.S. will gather in Atlanta, Georgia. The festival will take place during the weekend of Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on [...]

Most of the time, I leave the cinema hall feeling disappointed, offended and ripped-off. Here I am, after wasting nearly two hours of my precious life, feeling slightly older and bitter that my intellect wasn’t stimulated in any way.
The question we need to ask here is not why such pathetic attempts at film-making are still being made, it’s simply: why is the public still interested in such films?