Hailed as the only gathering of its kind in the United States, the third Kurdish Youth Festival is scheduled to, once again, deliver an unforgettable experience. The upcoming 2012 festival will take place in the Nation’s Capital, Washington, DC, on …
Posted in Announcements, Culture, Events, Kurdistan, Kurds, Youth | Tagged kurdish youth festival, Kurdistan, Kurds | Leave a 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 comment“The oppressed is more unjust to himself than his oppressor when he allows oppression to be committed against him.” (Martin Luther King) Dear Director of El-Marg Public Prison, Due to the severe injustice committed against me by the Military Justice …
Posted in Announcements, Bad news, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Middle East, News and Politics, Politics | Tagged corruption, Egypt, Human Rights, Maikel Nabil, Middle East, Politics, revolution, Sami Anan, SCAF | 2 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 commentMideast Youth has been redesigned and relaunched this August for a better experience. The website, which has celebrated its fifth anniversary last May, has never been better, with a smooth user-friendly interface and a better way to find out about …
Posted in Announcements, Mideast Youth | Leave a commentWe’re extremely excited to launch the new CrowdVoice.org design! Check it out. What’s new? Apart from various improvements on usability, the site now allows anyone to create their own page. It takes 2 seconds to sign up to be able …
Posted in Announcements, Freedom of Speech, Videos | Leave a commentMideast Youth just celebrated its fifth year. We went through many hardships to get here, overcame many challenges, and adopted a handful of logos – the first one being below from 2006. Those were the days when Mideast Youth was …
Posted in Announcements, Mideast Youth | Leave a commentMideast Youth and TEDxCairo have agreed an official partnership which could see many co-operative ventures between the two sides in the near future.
Originally, MEY share a wide breadth of vision with TED, which was founded 27 years ago in CA, USA, namely, creativity, innovation, and inspiration. Accordingly, we’ve planned to approach the independent TEDx events in the region, in order to support the rise of local talents in the age of open skies.
Posted in Announcements, Egypt, Mideast Youth | Tagged TEDxCairo | Leave a commentToday we make the official launch of our latest project, Ahwaa.org. Ahwaa.org is a bilingual tool for LGBTQ youth in the Middle East that leverages game mechanics to facilitate authentic, high-quality interactions. To learn more about its mission and some …
Posted in Announcements, Awareness, Civil Rights, Gender, Homosexuality, Society, Taboos, Videos, Youth | 6 CommentsMigrant Rights website has been awarded one of the prizes of the seventh annual Deutsche Welle Blog Awards: The BOBs (Best of Blogs) competition. “Jury Award for Human Rights at DW Blog Award #thebobs to Migrant Rights in Middle East …
Posted in Activism, Announcements, Awareness, Bahrain, Civil Rights, Mideast Youth, Migrant Workers | 1 Comment