Category: Interviews
Posted on October 30, 2011 by Trevor Avedissian
Its amazing how random a chance meeting in Tweed Heads (Northern NSW east coast of Australia) can end you up in a 5 star hotel in Egypt on the banks of the Nile. This’ll be my first departure from Australia …
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Posted on May 28, 2011 by Fatima (Saudi Arabia)
Below is an interview we conducted with a Syrian Kurd from Aleppo, who gave us a unique on-the-ground perspective about the Syrian uprising and the participation of Kurds in it. “Rêber” (a pseudonym) details the different protests that took place …
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Posted on August 21, 2010 by Fatima (Saudi Arabia)
Below is an interview with Matthew Cassel, an American photographer and journalist based in Lebanon about his photography project Unseen Lives: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon (see slideshow at the bottom of this post). In the interview Matthew describes how …
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Posted on July 28, 2010 by Reem Shawkat (Sudan)
Sometimes when I describe my house to my friends, I tell them to get off the Omdurman bridge and go straight after they see “Awadia Fishes” to their right. Awadia has become a landmark in Omdurman, hundreds of people commute from Khartoum and Bahri to eat Awadia’s fish. When you go there, you probably wouldn’t see her sitting at the reception desk, if you look outside the new, fairly-modern restaurant, you will see a woman of significant size dressed in black sitting on a tiny metal chair under the boiling sun.
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Posted on July 6, 2010 by Shahrazad (Iran)
Martin Luther King says: “There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.” People resist oppression and that spirit of resistance won’t die until a courageous people are free again in their …
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Posted on May 17, 2010 by Fatima (Saudi Arabia)
Below is a video-slideshow about digital activism in the Middle East and especially the use of social media by Arab youth to create change in their society. The video discusses the April 6 Movement in Egypt, circumvention of censorship and …
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Posted on April 5, 2010 by Ari (Palestine)
Even though I am in Austin, the international music festival South By Southwest is in Austin, and Hypernova was meant to be at SXSW, I had to catch Raam over the phone. The Hypernova frontman was temporarily separated from his …
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Posted on January 8, 2010 by Ahmed Zidan (Egypt)
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 …
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Posted on November 1, 2009 by Esra'a (Bahrain)
I recently got a chance to interview a young Bahraini entrepreneur Reem Al-Khalifa, who founded her own company, Green Bar Inc. in 2006. Green Bar products include oils and moisturizers, all made from natural ingredients. Reem makes sure to use …
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by Esra'a (Bahrain)
This week we’re talking to the editor of our Migrant-Rights.org website, which aims to explore, expose, and find ways to improve the horrific conditions of migrant workers in the Middle East, specifically the Gulf. This is one of the most …
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