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You know there are sometimes things that you hear or see and you just never forget. Things that immediately make it into your permanent memory and pop out as flying-by thoughts every now and then. They don’t [...]

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 [...]

10 years ago today, Middle East Youth would have probably been backing up all their information on paper with the fear of the Y2K lingering. As we dawned on the Y2K era we were scared – very scared. We thought that if computers could survive it, then we’ll live happily ever after.
Looking back at the [...]

This is Damascus… If you want to play punk, you need to really want to. The hand of politics is everywhere. Both US foreign policy and domestic law can make or break your band: trade embargoes determine whether or not you can get equipment and censors make it difficult to speak about any real issues. While the suffocating restrictions and obstacles are annoying, the fact that the punks exist is a testament to their perseverance.

Tensions between the Arab and Kurdish communities in the North and West of Iraq are the main destabilizing factor in the country, warns a senior American military official in Bagdad, General Steve Lanza. After the terrorist threat presented by Al Qaida in 2006-2007 and the inter-Shiite conflict in 2008, current tensions could represent the beginning [...]

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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As an honor graduate, I’ve always been proud of myself, and so were my family and my friends. After all, I’ve worked hard to earn my degree and I spent days and months gaining experience through extracurricular activities; whether by volunteering, doing internships or representing my country abroad. [...]

David Gee is an English author and a wannabe satirist. He lived in the Gulf for six years trying to be funny and failing miserably in the process. In order to evidence his failure at humor he felt the urge to publish his poorly designed “novel” that recycles tedious stereotypes about the Gulf and specifically [...]

The zionists are not going to freeze settlement and they are going ahead in their project in judaizing the whole of Palestine. This is what all the zionist ministers state repeatedly, against the will of the whole world who is begging them for “peace”, as MK Silvan Shalom stated yesterday after meeting with a [...]

This is not the first time, and certainly not the last time I and several other Arabs here would be attacked and apparently “boycotted” because we chose to do what very few other Arabs in this region usually do, and that is tackle an injustice other than Palestine – a “sin” in the world of [...]