Announcements

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 [...]

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, [...]

Mideast Youth has launched a brand new Lite Edition of the website for mobile sets.
Whether your mobile supports Java™, Symbian™, or Windows Mobile™. Or even if you own one of the Smartphones, this is the Edition for you!
Our developers worked around the clock to make this Edition possible at last. And it’s time to be [...]

We are happy to share the with you the news that The March 18 Movement (OR318), won a 2009 ThinkSocial Award for “outstanding innovation” and representing a “powerful model for how social media can be used to address global problems”. We would like to express our deep gratitude to all the people who have expressed [...]

It’s a great pleasure to introduce to you our latest project: Israelis for Palestine. This has been in the works since the beginning of October and we’re happy to finally be launching it, despite the fact that it’s still very much in its early stages. To find out what it’s all about, a simple visit [...]