We are young digital natives reaching out across seemingly impenetrable national, social, political, ethnic, and sectarian barriers, employing the freedom created by media platforms to demand and create our own civil discourse.

Website Updates

Request: With your support, we can continue the struggle for human rights in the Middle East

January 13th, 2010Esra'a (Bahrain)

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 [...]

Is that Mideast Youth in your pocket?

December 4th, 2009Ahmed Zidan (Egypt)

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 [...]

ImageNew Migrant-Rights Design

November 5th, 2009Fatima (Saudi Arabia)

We are happy to share with you the new redesign of one of our projects, Migrant-Rights.org. Migrant-Rights was created to raise awareness about the common abuse of migrant workers in the region.
We worked hard on this design, trying to make the site more welcoming and increase its functionality. We hope you like it!

Let us know [...]

ImageNote to users of our iPhone Application: Don’t update yet

October 17th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

For those of you that have downloaded our iPhone Application, you might notice that there is an update that was released today. You’re encouraged to ignore it. We noticed a few bugs that were overlooked and are now being currently fixed. We’ll be releasing a new build as soon as it’s done, and the update [...]

Support the New Arabic Facebook Group

October 5th, 2009Ahmed Zidan (Egypt)

The Mideast Youth Organization proudly announces the launching of its new official Facebook group of the Arabic version of the website here.
The brand new group comes after a series of updates to the Arabic website, so that it could proceed to hold the precious name [...]

ImageMideast Youth iPhone Application

September 10th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

The Middle East and North Africa has a growing web presence. For those of us curious about the latest news and social networking activities from the region, we tend to spend too much time going through separate websites and feeds on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and various blogs and websites from the region in an attempt [...]

ImageLAUNCHED: Widget generator to raise awareness on imprisoned bloggers, journalists and activists!

May 12th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

Setting up campaigns is not an easy task if you don’t have the right tools. There was one tool that we at Mideast Youth always felt was missing, and that was the ability to easily create and embed a widget to help spread the word on imprisoned bloggers, journalists or activists. So we simply felt [...]

ImageFreeKareem.org WordPress Plugin Update

January 8th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

We have recently launched a WordPress plugin for Kareem. It has been in the works for some time, but we’re back now with a great update. In the previous post we noted that we were already working on introducing new features to improve the plugin/widget, these are now completed and you can download the latest [...]

MideastYouth.com launches an Arabic version

January 7th, 2009Rima (Syria)

I think many of you do not know me yet, so I’ll use this opportunity to introduce myself to you all.
I’ve been following topics on the website for months as they kept dragging my attention, until I decided that it’s important to spare some time in this busy life for an honost word.
And I volunteered assisting in [...]

URGENT: 1) Why the site was down and 2) Help us afford decent server space

January 7th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

You may have noticed that we have suffered with over 4 days of complete downtime. It was a really horrible experience for us to witness the site being non-operational during such a critical, busy time. But unfortunately these things happen, specifically when money is an issue and we can barely ever afford the best hosts/servers [...]