Thoughts through photos..

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Rasha (Saudi Arabia)

woman shadow mental prison male vs female Relationships, what is vs. should be! tumbled thoughts!

Posted in Culture, Fun Stuff, Gender, General, Photography, Photos, Saudi Arabia, Women | 2 Comments

Look out of your window and take a photo (share it with a German e-Zine)

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Esra'a (Bahrain)

For the past couple of months we have been occasionally collaborating with the great German e-Zine Zuender, and you can see a previous list of contributions here. This time they come to us with a new curiosity – what lies …

Posted in Creativity, Entertainment, Fun Stuff, General, Photos | 11 Comments

Barack-y

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Shobrawy

Any regular reader of this site knows I haven’t endorsed any of the available candidates and its fair to say I hate all of them although I cant deny that I’ve reserved a special serving of disgust and ridicule for …

Posted in Fun Stuff, Media, USA, Videos | 8 Comments

Teleconference with American students, Part II

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Shobrawy

Hey everyone, after a slight delay our second teleconference with American students is ready for your listening enjoyment. Participating in the conference are Esra’a, Liz and myself. Our first conference was very successful and we’ve followed it up with what …

Posted in Culture, Fun Stuff, Middle East, Podcasts, USA | 6 Comments

Mideast Youth Comic #3: Ali's Story

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Sarah Glidden (USA)

Here is comic number three! This one was written by Ali, from Bahrain.

I still need more submissions from people! Please please click on the “submit your story” button on the comics page and send me yours! Remember, it can be about almost anything and there are no restrictions in terms of where you’re from. Don’t be shy and don’t make the mistake of thinking your stories are boring. I guarantee they are not! And you can also submit the story of a friend or relative (as long as its not an invasion of privacy). The more stories I get, the more comics I can post here so do it now!

Posted in Bahrain, Fun Stuff, Humor, Middle East, Society | 4 Comments

Podcast: Teleconference with American high school students

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Esra'a (Bahrain)

A while ago I announced that we were going to have a Skype conference with a few students from Pennsylvania. D.B shortly wrote a follow-up to that after the conference call, and this is the third follow-up with the actual …

Posted in Culture, Education, Fun Stuff, Podcasts, USA, Youth | 19 Comments

Ohio's inspiring Jewish and Arab community

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)

The University of Chicago’s Arab community was a big disappointment for me when we performed there for MASA-Israel Journeys and Hillel — not only would they not attend the open performance of the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour, they even refused to …

Posted in Arab Americans, Fun Stuff, Humor, Islam, Israel, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Politics, USA | 9 Comments

Fun with Dick and Jane on Israeli-Palestinian comedy tour

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)

We did two shows so far, one at the University of Madison, hosted by MASA/Israel Journeys, the Middle East Studies Association and the Jewish Agency/Hillel at the University of Wisconsin. We had 120 reservations (four days planning and 30 more …

Posted in Arab Christians, Arabs, Censorship, Civil Rights, Entertainment, Freedom of Speech, Fun Stuff, Islam, Israel, Media, Middle East, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Racism, Taboos | 1 Comment

Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour experiment in USA begins

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)

(Chicago) — Well, I’m off this morning on a 10-day tour of selected campuses in the United States for the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour to see if the experiment works in the US as well as it has in Israel and …

Posted in Arab Americans, Creativity, Culture, Current Events, Entertainment, Fun Stuff, Humor, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Satire, USA | 10 Comments

First ever Arab American comedy festival in New York — 2002

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Ray Hanania (Palestine/USA)

I was honored in 2002 to be invited to participate in the first ever comedy festival that was held in 2002 and organized by the Arab American Professionals of New York City. The event was held at the New York …

Posted in Arab Americans, Creativity, Culture, Entertainment, Fun Stuff, Humor, USA | 1 Comment