Videos

Today is the first anniversary of Iranian blogger Omid Reza’s death. For those of you who don’t know who Omid is, this is an excerpt from the entry we created on Wikipedia: Omid Reza Mir Sayafi (also Omidreza Mirsayafi), a 29-year old Iranian blogger and journalist died in Evin Prison in Tehran on March 18, 2009. In December, he was sentenced to two and half years in prison for allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging [...]

Bloggers across the globe are being imprisoned for writing posts that are deemed “blasphemous” or are accused of “spreading false information harmful to the country.”
In the last month almost 10 netizens and bloggers have been arrested worldwide.
The March 18 Movement aims to shed light on these cases and calls for free speech on the [...]

We made this video mash up a while ago and thought it would be appropriate to share it with you again today, on Martin Luther King day. Not only is this video relevant for today because it includes the immortal words of MLK, but also because it addresses the lack of freedom in Iran, an [...]

2009 was a big year for us. We at Mideast Youth worked really hard throughout the year and as a result managed to release a lot of new or improved projects and experimental applications. I can’t possibly list everything here, and one of our editors will soon make a seperate list of our best content [...]

Maziar Bahari, an Iranian Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker who was arrested without charge during the Iranian election protests in June, thanks supporters everywhere who campaigned for his release on Twitter, Facebook, and through diplomatic relations which all contributed to his eventual freedom. Below is a video taken by our partners, Highest Common Denominator Media [...]

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

There is really nothing more to say. What else could be added… ?? This is simply reality… It has happened, and can happen anytime in the Occupied West Bank – or (no more these days, though…) at Erez Checkpoint to Gaza.
But I think that nowadays private cars wouldn’t even get THAT close to the [...]

Arian Band, is the most successful and popular pop band in Iran. They have released four successful studio albums and are highly valued in Iran. Lately they’ve donated parts of their profit to “United Nations World Food Programme“. They’ve also released a related video clip.
Watch the video clip:
You can also download the song here, and [...]

Al-Jazeera English aired a story today about the abuse domestic workers suffer in the Gulf. The report included an interview with a women who came to work as a maid in the UAE from East Africa (her accent is Ethiopian, as far as I can tell). The maid was daily abused by her female employer [...]

We are extremely excited to release our latest video, which has been in the works for quite some time now. Abuses against the innocent Baha’i minority in Iran have been committed for over 30 years. Inspired by the reactions of Iran’s latest election, where many Iranians took to the streets to demand change and respect [...]