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:
Public Broadcasting Service’s Idea Lab: Open Source Meets Mobile in Ashoka’s Citizen Media Competition. (2011)
Gulf Daily News: Website developer shrugs off threats (2011)
In These Times: Will the Arab Spring Leave Migrants Out in the Cold? (2011)
- Mashable: QR Code Campaign Fights for Education Equality in Iran
- CNN: The Middle East’s leaders of the future?
- Read Write web: Middle Eastern Music Site Helps Fuel Change in the Region
- Assyrian International News Agency: Assyrian rights websites launched
- Change Observer: A Voice for LGBTQ in the Middle East
- Ahwaa.org featured on CNN Arabic
- Featured in a book, The Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing – “I’m even more impressed with the non-businesses uses of crowdsourcing principles to gather important information such as tracking protests globally via CrowdVoice.org” [Read full interview with author]
- Our project “Migrant Rights” featured in: “Will the Arab Spring Leave Migrants Out in the Cold?”
- Svergie Radio (Swedish).
- CNN: Iranian students barred for beliefs, say campaigners
- Fast Company’s 100 Creative People in 2011 list.
- Sheltered Silicon Valley has a role to play on the net’s front line [Irish Times]
- IRIN.
- When a bug fix can save a journalist’s life [Committee to Protect Journalists]
- Interview with Ahmed Zidan about Migrant-Rights.org [Video]
- The Atlantic: Mideast Youth Opens Online Platform for LGBTQ Community
- The Stream on Al Jazeera, and also a blog post here.
- TechCrunch: Coverage of CrowdVoice.org
- NYTimes and Post-Gazette, while we were covering Egypt’s protests 2011: Here, here, and here.
- Time: Songs of the Revolution: A Bahrain Website Mixes Music and Activism.
- MTV: Young Egyptian ‘Digital Activist’ Speaks, here and also here.
- VH1:Egyptian Activist Asks American Youth To ‘Share This Moment Of Glory
- ReadWriteWeb: Here, here, here, and here. (2011)
- Daily Telegraph: Immigrant worker abuse in Middle East condemned by human rights group. (2010)
- La Stampa coverage on CrowdVoice.org (Italian)
- Rolling Stone Middle East: Artists Tunes in to Social Change. (2010)
- National Public Radio: In The Mideast, An Online Music Site With A Message. (2010)
- MIT’s Technology Review features Ahwaa.org in report
- Akhbar al-Adab: Mideast Youth celebrates its fourth birthday. (2010)
- Abu Dhabi TV: Mideast Tunes gets featured on Abu Dhabi TV (2010)
- CNN World: YouTube gives Bahraini youth window to world (2010)
- CNN: Young Muslims turn to technology to connect, challenge traditions (2009)
- Beyond Profit: Social Enterprise of the Day
- Gulli:News, Censorship and the Middle East
- The Guardian (2008)
- The Guardian (2010)
- 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
- 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)
- Toronto Star (2010)
- Skype [Pt. II - Skype used to open 'fierce but respectful' discussions about the Mideast]
- ETC.se (Swedish)
- 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’
- The MidEast Connect: Mideast Youth: Bridging Inter-Cultural Tensions
- 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
- 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
- WireTap Magazine: Mideast Digital Détente
- 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)
- Frankfurter Rundschau FR-online.de
- Al Ayaam (Bahrain)
- 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.)
