Crisis in Gaza: Tarek explains the situation from the ground [11:11m]:
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Several months ago we began exploring potential work with the Palestinian Center for Youth Work, which Tarek Badra is a Chairman of. Since not many people there can visibly express what’s happening it is crucial for us to conduct these podcasts with people on the ground so the world can see what they’re going through [...]
Interview with Israeli human rights activist Eva on crisis in Gaza:
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This is an interview with an admirable Israeli human rights activist who finds it deplorable what the Israeli government is currently doing to Gaza. In this podcast she speaks about Israeli violence, racism, and how the current terrorist activities from the Israeli military is far from justifiable. She is both against Hamas corruption and Israel [...]
Ramzy in Gaza gives an on-the-ground account on the Gazan crisis [14:51m]:
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Hundreds have died so far and there is no sign of Israel quitting its aggressive attacks against innocent civilians. The international world is reacting but Ramzy, who is a young teacher in Gaza and occasional author on Mideast Youth, notes that it’s doing so far too slowly. There is no way to put it, despite [...]
Interview with Rana Kamil [19:48m]:
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This weekend, I had been invited to Beirut for a conference on how to use the internet for social change, where I gave a presentation about Mideast Youth and its projects. During this event I roomed with Rana Kamil from Baghdad, Iraq, who is inspirational and great. She was kind enough to allow me to [...]
Gaza Concert - Using music to end the siege [14:29m]:
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There’s a large number of underrepresented Palestinians who are resorting to peaceful and creative methods to bring peace and end the siege in Gaza. Perhaps one of the best efforts of the year is the Gaza Concert, which is described as the following:
From the heart of Gaza a sound of hope. Performers from Gaza will [...]
Free Kareem Podcast with Bureaucrash [18:59m]:
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Xaq Fixx of Bureaucrash, “a non-profit organization that facilitates freedom-oriented activism,” recently conducted this podcast with me about Kareem, Mideast Youth’s Free Kareem Campaign, and free speech in the Arab world. Bureaucrash members provided a lot of support for the campaign and have helped us organize several rallies for Kareem in the past two years [...]
Interview with Israeli historian about Palestinian rights [13:25m]:
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This is an interview with Shaul, an Israeli historian, and part of the pro-Palestinian minority in Israel. Some of the questions asked are leftovers from this session, others were brought up along with the discussion as you’d notice. We understand the controversy of this topic, I’d just ask that you try your best to be [...]
Interview with Antony Loewenstein [26:13m]:
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I can’t imagine any readers of this site not being interested in the content of Antony Loewenstein’s “The Blogging Revolution,” a book about bloggers who live and blog under authoritarian regimes.
It’s relevant to many of us blogging at this site. Antony has long been one of my favorite bloggers, mostly because he has guts. [...]
Interview with Mira Al Hussain:
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When we conducted our previous podcast, where several American high students asked us questions in order to learn more about the Middle East for their Global Studies class, some students didn’t have a chance to ask their questions. So I’m now giving others the opportunity to answer these questions as a continuation of that series.
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Teleconference with American students [35:06m]:
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We were extremely excited to be doing this again. I love it that today we live in a world where with just a few clicks you can connect yourself with people and hear their views or express your own without having to worry about the geographical limitations.
For the third teleconference (we did this previously here [...]
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