Podcasts

This is the first podcast in a long series on homosexuality in Sudan. Mideast Youth talks to Ali, a single gay Sudanese man living and working in the Gulf. When Ali started his blog, black-gay-Arab, he was only trying to find himself. Three years later, Ali has a lot of followers and writes about his identity [...]

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We’ve broadcast today a new Arabicast episode on MEYArabic; an interview with Dr Sahar Al Mougy.
The interview was recorded during Ana Al-Hekaya (I’m the Tale) workshop, that has taken place at the AUC from 27 to 29th of December 2009.
The workshop, which is held annually since 1998, focuses on rewriting and renarrating the Egyptian folkloric [...]

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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“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, [...]

United4Iran is a nonprofit startup whose mission is to “promote fundamental human and civil rights in Iran.” In this podcast, I speak with the organization’s founder, Firuzeh Mahmoudi, and 2 of the organization’s volunteers, Tori Egherman and Kamran Ashtary. We first talk generally about United4Iran as an initiative, and then move on to how they’re [...]

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The Chief Editor of Radijojo World Children’s Radio Network in Berlin; an international NGO dedicated to use media with and for children as a tool for intercultural dialogue, participation, children’s rights and global learning decided to work with Mideast Youth on an intercultural project. They were having a Radijojo radio Workshop about the relationship between [...]

Pakistan has been making the news lately. Unfortunately, it’s nothing positive. Here’s a sample of the latest headlines: 15 injured in explosion in Pakistan, Blasts strike across Pakistan, Blast kills 17 on bus in Pakistan, Explosion Kills Six in Peshawar, Pakistan, Bomb Blast Hits UN Agency in Islamabad. It’s hard to be shocked by any [...]

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In this podcast, I speak with Nadia from Tunisia about relationships and the perception of sex in the Arab world. What is accepted, what isn’t, and what’s hypocritical about our current societies. This is an important discussion but still surprisingly a taboo in the MENA region. Amongst the things we discuss are: virginity, independence (specifically [...]

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Yara Al Wazir is a 16 year old student attending the British School in Kuwait. She created the Green Initiative, with a solid mission: “To provide a cleaner, greener, and brighter future for our earth by raising awareness with issues regarding the environment, simaltaneously providing practical and realistic solutions that can be carried out by [...]

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In this week’s podcast I talked to Leah, an Israeli who’s using the internet to connect with Arabs and Iranians. Leah has been very active since the June 12 election in Iran, following the events in Iran and sharing the news with her fellow Israelis.
In this podcast we discussed the ways the internet and social [...]

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