This is something I wrote when I was thinking how war/life in middle east stole away my (and many other’s) childhood, and shuttered most of our dreams, but I’m still trying to pick up the pieces of my dreams, and …
Posted in Arabs, Art, Iraq, Literature, Poetry, Youth | 6 CommentsThroughout history the kurds have been forgotten and stigmatized as having a high record of unemployment, lack of human rights and primitive education. To treat this misperception as Kurdish professionals we have a ethical & moral duty to represent Kurdistan …
Posted in Activism, Afghanistan, Awareness, Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Middle East, Youth | Tagged clean technology, Education, Green Prophet, Human Rights, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Middle East | 1 CommentSit-inners have been camping out for a week to put pressure on representatives of the National Constituent Assembly concerning the draft law on the provisional organization of public authorities. There is a wide range of demands, the most important of which …
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Tunisia, Youth | Tagged Tunisia | Leave a commentTunisians are keeping an eye on the representatives they elected on October 23. Occupy Bardo is a open sit-in held in front of the National Constituent Assembly premises, seat of the former Camber of Deputies to demand transparency of the …
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Education, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Tunisia, Youth | Tagged Tunisia | 1 CommentFeras Baqna, Hussam Al-Drewesh and Khaled Al-Rashed started an online television series based in Saudi Arabia called “We are being cheated.” They posted several episodes on topics that are often not covered by mainstream Saudi television. The last episode was …
Posted in Activism, Arabs, Awareness, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Education, Freedom of Speech, Media, Saudi Arabia, Society, Youth | Tagged Free Speech, Mal3ob3lena, Saudi Arabia | 2 CommentsHip-Hop and Rap are part of the few genres that were made to be used as a vehicle for exposing social injustice and expressing pent-up frustration. Be that as it may, it’s really no surprise that music from said genres …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds, Youth | Tagged hip hop, kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Music, rap | 1 CommentTo some people, November 11th, 2011 is yet another regular day that may pass as much as the next one, aside from the funny coincidence that it carries 6 (ones) in it. Well, I beg to differ; for this day …
Posted in Afghanistan, Creativity, Events, Film, Iraq, Youth | Tagged events, Youth | Leave a commentRiding on the heels of his latest album release, “difrent,” Stephan Said has been keeping busy with a project of the same name which aims to erase the borders that separate us with the power of music. His vision, in everything that he does, …
Posted in Activism, Culture, Iraq, Music, Philosophy, USA, Youth | Tagged difrent, Iraq, new york, stephan said, stephan smith | Leave a commentOf the books which I started reading in prison, was “Natures of Tyranny and Slavery Wrestler” for sheikh “Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi”… I liked the book very much and I was surprised that there exists an Islamic cleric with this enlightenment, …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Civil Rights, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Philosophy, Society, Taboos, Youth | Tagged Egypt, hunger strike, Maikel Nabil, Maikel Nabil trial, Political Prisoners, strike | Leave a comment[This article first appeared on our other site, Mideast Tunes.] I kinda lucked out with this one. A friend happened to get me into personal contact with Busac of Smouldering In Forgotten for an interview via email. As people know, …
Posted in Bahrain, Creativity, Culture, Music, Youth | Tagged Bahrain, band, Interview, metal, Music | Leave a comment