Activism

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 [...]

Hypocracy[1] is understood as a so called democratic government in which hypocrisy rule i.e. the ruling party/individuals does not keep on what is being promised and/or told.

We are pleased to bring you the good news that Walid Al-Saqaf, the developer of alkasir circumvention software, which was developed with the support of Mideast Youth, won the Democracy Prize for 2010 from the Swedish Örebro University for his work.
Bellow is the press release from the university:
Arab Scholar and Software Developer Wins Swedish Democracy [...]

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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Don’t let history Repeats Itself, UN sanctions on Iraq caused half a million deaths among young children, US sanctions on Iran will have the same effects, open your eyes and react to planned massacre of ordinary people! Our goal is to pressure the Iranian government, particularly the Revolutionary Guard elements, without contributing to the suffering [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

An article about the Climate Action Day that took place on the 24th of October all over the world. Egyptian activists did their part with this brilliant night of short films, Sci-fi Documentary screenings, stand up comedy acts, and a discussion led by three of the most recognized professionals in Environmental issues in Egypt.

Originally published at PalestineNote.Com

A few days ago, I posted one of Al-Thawra’s songs, “Gaza: Choking on the Smoke of Dreams,” on the Internet for free download. We wrote the song the day after the Israeli bombing started on December 27th, 2008, and we intended it as a commentary on the sheer human tragedy of the [...]

Mideast Youth is extraordinarily open to criticism and feedback. We aim to constantly adjust, adapt, and evolve based on the commentary we receive. But there are a few points of criticism which come up again and again. We’d like to address them here.
First, there’s the question of how we go about choosing issues and projects [...]