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Photography

Trash to Treasure: Young artist inspired by trash

December 23rd, 2009Yara Al-Wazir

Reuse is an annual contemporary art exhibition organised by en.v Earth in Kuwait.  It’s putting a zesty twist to the issue of Kuwait’s environment, and rather than preaching, it’s showing the real life effects through art. The exhibition featured many high level attendees, including MP Dr. Rola Dashti, and MP Dr Aseel Al-Awadhi. the pieces [...]

World’s Double Standards

August 28th, 2009Shahrazad (Iran)

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Iran’s Invisible Crowd

July 27th, 2009Shahrazad (Iran)

While there’re thousands of articles and Photos shared around the net, just few have put their opinions on fair basis, most of them often using half truths and inducing in minds certain vocabulary.
In Iran’s colorful political arena, The green color got more attention from the western Media, maybe because they liked the candidate behind it [...]

In three..

May 9th, 2009Rasha (Saudi Arabia)

This is a piece I wrote a short while ago, I didn’t think of posting it until recently when a close friend of mine insisted on having it published somewhere.. Well I guess mideastyouth is the place ! enjoy
It is only in the late hours of the night
That I learn more about my sentience
I [...]

SPINearth Spotlights Middle Eastern Music and Culture

April 30th, 2009Maryam

Serious doubts and lack of nurturing, the Middle East often struggles to find its place not only in the world, media and politics but also in culture, arts and music. While also being stuck between religious governments, war and misinterpreted media conceptions, the Middle East’s music scene is no longer being overlooked with sites like [...]

Help a man achieve his dream in Kurdistan

April 3rd, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

This request is an urgent one. I personally am very passionate about the usage of any media to tell a story, it’s the most empowering thing. So you can imagine why I’d request for your help in pushing this forward; reading the “dream” alone is inspirational as it is:
“My dream assignment would be to work [...]

ImageLife in a Refugee Camp, Through Children’s Eyes

July 25th, 2008Tasnim (Libya)

NGO Zakira’s first exhibition, Lahza, is an innovative photography project which puts cameras in the hands of children living in Palestinian camps in Lebanon. Zakira’s founder Ramzi Haidar, an AFP photographer, first thought of the project while in Iraq, after the US invasion, but couldn’t implement the idea there for security reasons.
The 141 photos showcased [...]

Basir Seerat, An Afghan Photo Journalist

July 3rd, 2008Lord Kavi (Iran)

Wandering in blogosphere, led me today to Afghan’s weblogs which were really interesting. Of those, was Basir Seerat’s photo weblog. He is 26 years old who has B.A in directing theater and cinema. Also is photo journalist for Human Rights in Afghanistan. He had made some art works in filmmaking, photography and calligraphy. I found [...]

Thoughts through photos..

June 29th, 2008Rasha (Saudi Arabia)

woman shadow

mental prison

male vs female

Relationships, what is vs. should be!

tumbled thoughts!

The Bigotry of Liberal Sympathy

June 9th, 2008D.B. Shobrawy (Egypt)

If there is anything I hate more than right-wing Conservative nut jobs with tunnel vision, it’s fruit cake Liberals and their “compassionate” racism. That’s what I would call it anyway.
Generally it’s the conservative members of society that attract and harbor the most intolerant and bigoted elements of society. The Jerry Falwell’s of the world, [...]