You may remember that a few weeks ago, our project CrowdVoice.org was selected amongst 11 finalists at the Citizen Media competition. We relied entirely on your votes and mobilization to secure a spot amongst the four winners. We’re proud to …
Posted in Announcements, Bahrain, Freedom of Speech, Media | Tagged CrowdVoice, Media | Leave a commentHeadlines involving domestic workers in the Gulf often fall into one of two categories: the horrifying or the ‘quirky.’ Reactions to the former – a maid raped, a woman tortured and enslaved – are instantaneous: absolute revulsion. But condemnation of …
Posted in Awareness, Ethics, Gulf, Media, Migrant Workers, Society | Tagged Gulf, migrant rights, Migrant Workers, slavery | Leave a commentWe are pleased to inform you that our project CrowdVoice.org has been selected as a finalist at the Citizen Media competition. Now we rely on your votes! All you have to do is log in (it can be via Facebook …
Posted in Announcements, Media, Website Updates | Tagged CrowdVoice, protests | 1 CommentWe’ve been huge fans of Flipboard since its launch. It’s by far the best way to flip through and discover content on the iPad. It first got my attention when I was using it to flip through some of the …
Posted in Announcements, Media | Tagged Censorship, flipboard, social media, Twitter | Leave a 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 CommentsWe at Migrant-Rights.org have just released a new video in an effort to continue to spread awareness about the dire situation of migrant/expat workers throughout the Middle East. We have yet to subtitle it to English, but the message remains …
Posted in Activism, Announcements, Awareness, Civil Rights, Creativity, Media, Migrant Workers, Racism | Tagged migrant rights, Migrant Workers, Racism | 1 CommentWe are pleased to announce that Mideast Tunes has officially entered a partnership with Blazetrak, a New York based company that provides direct video access to the world’s top professionals. Bands and artists from the Middle East and Africa are …
Posted in Announcements, Creativity, Culture, Media, Music | Tagged band, hip hop, Mideast Tunes, Music, musician | Leave a commentIt begins Monday. The trial of the Kurdish satellite channel Roj TV begins Monday in Copenhagen, Denmark and will end with a verdict that either confirms or repudiates the alleged links between Roj TV and PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party or …
Posted in Current Events, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds, Media, Turkey | Tagged Free Speech, kurdish rights, Kurdistan, roj tv | 4 CommentsRead Write Web, a popular tech blog, published a great write-up about our growing project, Mideast Tunes. Here’s an except: As popular uprisings have unfolded across the Middle East this year, much attention has been paid to the both underlying …
Posted in Announcements, Culture, Media, Music | Tagged mideastunes, Music | Leave a comment* Expelling students continues in Bahrain. Tens of students were expelled from Bahrain Polytechnic yesterday and today for voicing their anti-government view on the internet and mainly on Facebook and for allegedly taking part in anti-government protests that rocked the …
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