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.

Press Room

The Official Mideast Youth Press Room
Welcome to the place where Mideast Youth can humbly boast about its goals on the web and across the world (not to be confused with taking over the world, of course). If interested in covering our activities or interviewing members, feel free to contact us. Check out some of our latest stops on the world tour:

- CNN: Young Muslims turn to technology to connect, challenge traditions

- Beyond Profit: Social Enterprise of the Day

- Gulli:News, Censorship and the Middle East

- CNN Live Report

- The Guardian

- Al Hasnaa Magazine (Arabic)

- Golem.de

- The Jerusalem Post (featured on front page)

- Sky News

- Mideast Youth is featured in the 2009 Mothers Acting Up Calendar

- Harvard Law School: MideastYouth.com wins Berkman Award for Internet Innovation

- BBC Persian

- Radio Zamaneh (Persian): Listen to audio feature

- Radio Farda (Persian)

- WireTap Magazine, [Pt. II]

- NRC Handelsblad (Dutch)

- Die Zeit (the paper)

- Die Zeit (the e-Zine), [Pt. II], [Pt. III]

- Zoomer (German)

- Al Masry Al Youm writes about our video. (Egypt)

- Skype [Pt. II - Skype used to open 'fierce but respectful' discussions about the Mideast]

- Poynter Online

- ETC.se (Swedish)

- New York Times

- RP Online (German)

- L’atelier (French): La plate-forme MideastYouth.com fait collaborer les jeunes du Moyen-Orient en les familiarisant au Net

- The Daily Star (Egypt): Arab and Chinese activists campaign to release ‘cyber dissidents’

- School Library Journal

- The MidEast Connect: Mideast Youth: Bridging Inter-Cultural Tensions

- Paz Agora

- The Arab Press Network

- National Review Online: Getting Kareem Freed

- The Blogging Journalist: Some Arabs Using Blogs “To Agitate For A Better Future”

- AP News wire: Bloggers in Mideast transforming dialogue but face clampdowns by authorities

- Alef Magazine

- The Daily Star: A gateway to freedom with which we can do more [Full article available here]

- Bitter Lemons: Democracy is possible, Arab bloggers assure us every day

- la.indymedia.org: Interfaith Coalition Condemns Jailing of Egyptian Student over Blogposts

- The Media Line (Radio interview concerning our project Migrant-Rights.org)

- Harvard Law School/Digital Natives: Providing platform for public voice. (Podcast)

- Boston.com/The Boston Globe: More Seder in the blogosphere

- Observatorio da Imprensa: Resistência digital no mundo árabe

- Frankfurter Rundschau FR-online.de: “Sie wissen, wer ich bin” (German)

- 20.minutes.fr: Le baisemain d’Ahmadinejad (French)

- BBC Radio

- Frankfurter Rundschau FR-online.de

- Al Ayaam (Bahrain)

- Mondiaal Niuews (Dutch)

- Jetzt: Die Welt ist nicht perfekt und wird es niemals sein (German)

- Taz: Arabische Webrevolutionärin (German)

- Sueddeutsche (German)

- ICN-News (Italian)

- Radio: KPFK, community radio station in Los Angeles, California (featuring our interview with a Saudi DJ.)