{"id":197,"date":"2008-09-10T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T20:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-09-10T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T20:37:05","slug":"mideast-youth-providing-platforms-for-public-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/2008\/09\/10\/mideast-youth-providing-platforms-for-public-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast Youth: Providing platforms for public voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s &#8220;Digital Natives Reporters in the Field&#8221; series turns the microphone over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mideastyouth.com\/author\/esra\/\">Esra\u2019a Al Shafei<\/a> of Bahrain, the 21-year-old director of student-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mideastyouth.com\/\">MideastYouth.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mission of MideastYouth is \u201cto inspire and provide young people with the freedom and opportunity of expression, and facilitate a fierce but respectful dialogue among the highly diverse youth of all sects, socio-economic backgrounds, and political and religious beliefs in the Middle East.\u201d MideastYouth.com fights for social change with podcasts, blogs, social networks, and online video.  <\/p>\n<p>In this podcast, Esra\u2019a talks about the ability of the internet to empower minorities with a voice, the mission of MideastYouth.com, and the change it has sparked in the world.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/mail\/services\/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwilkins.law.harvard.edu%2Fprojects%2FDN%2Freporters%2F2008-09-05_mideastyouth%2Fmideastyouthpodcast0908.mp3\">podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And learn more about Esra&#8217;a, <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/node\/4316\">winner of Berkman Award for Internet Innovation<\/a>, who when not &#8220;kicking butt&#8221; directing the ever impressive MideastYouth platform, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mideastyouth.com\/author\/esra\/\">&#8220;enjoys drinking flavored milk and writing about herself in 3rd person to remind herself of her existence.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s &#8220;Digital Natives Reporters in the Field&#8221; series turns the microphone over to Esra\u2019a Al Shafei of Bahrain, the 21-year-old director of student-owned MideastYouth.com The mission of MideastYouth is \u201cto inspire and provide young people with the freedom and opportunity of expression, and facilitate a fierce but respectful dialogue among the highly diverse youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2753,3176,259,2751],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-podcast","category-civic-engagement","category-innovation","category-reporters-in-the-field"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}