Mideast Youth

Mideast Youth has proudly launched Mideast Tunes this morning – in other words, music for social change!
Music is a powerful form of expression and is currently underrated, although it can be used in activism. Meanwhile, Free speech can be magnified through music. And this is exactly what inspired us with Mideast Tunes.
Mideast Tunes, which comes [...]

We are pleased to bring you the good news that Walid Al-Saqaf, the developer of alkasir circumvention software, which was developed with the support of Mideast Youth, won the Democracy Prize for 2010 from the Swedish Örebro University for his work.
Bellow is the press release from the university:
Arab Scholar and Software Developer Wins Swedish Democracy [...]

We’re not the first to realize that t-shirts are a great way to raise awareness about causes. We wanted to make fun shirts that deliver the message of coexistence without being tedious. We hope you like it! Let us know what you think in the comment section.
You can buy the shirts here.

Writing on the [...]

Since 2006, Mideast Youth has been working nonstop on human rights campaigns in the Middle East. We started out with one site and a series of ideas, but soon expanded into a solid network of a dozen websites with growing influence. Some of our best efforts can be seen here. We know that many people [...]

Mideast Youth is extraordinarily open to criticism and feedback. We aim to constantly adjust, adapt, and evolve based on the commentary we receive. But there are a few points of criticism which come up again and again. We’d like to address them here.
First, there’s the question of how we go about choosing issues and projects [...]

2009 was a big year for us. We at Mideast Youth worked really hard throughout the year and as a result managed to release a lot of new or improved projects and experimental applications. I can’t possibly list everything here, and one of our editors will soon make a seperate list of our best content [...]

After around two months of international phone calls, this Sunday and Monday Green Prophet hosted a whirlwind two-day (20-hour) seminar on environmental blogging in Madaba, Jordan.
Thanks to the good efforts of Volunteers for Peace and the Masar Center, nearly 20 Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli writers and activists met for the first time and learned about [...]

We’re pleased to announce a brand new competition and Facebook application for MEYArabic. The events that come along with MEYArabic first anniversary celebrations, in style.
The new competition will put all the blogs of passing month, at the beginning of every new month, head-to-head to compete hot-on-heels for the elegant virtual awards, The Featured Blog of [...]

“Arabicast Shabaket Shabab Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat.” Prepare yourself, as your ears will take on this frequently, since you’ll not stop listening to our Arabicasts. It reads, Middle East Youth Network Arabicast.
MEYCast has launched in December 2006, and here we go with the brand new Arabicast on December 2009. Not only 3 years since the MEYCast début, [...]

A year of Mideast Youth Arabic has never witnessed one single moderated letter, or a deleted comment, or a censored entry, regardless of the harsh criticism we received sometimes, but simply we believe in what we’re doing. In addition, that we’re completely aware that the fine line between criticism and unjustifiable attack can’t be seen by naked eyes sometimes. Especially for who’re taking part in the debate. Our policy in Mideast Youth Arabic is plain at this area, as we support unmoderated, unedited, and uncensored freedom of speech. Our tagline isn’t yet another shallow slogan. We do speculate vertically in-depth of future thinking.