This is where you’ll find discussions around our various project activities, resources in development and commentary on topical discussions in the media, including case studies from across the MENA region.
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Check Global is a program run by Meedan in partnership with Birmingham City University, with funding from Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)...
As our COVID-19 micrograntees in NAWA wrapped up their important projects, we invited them to a private informal event with our NAWA Newsroom students to discuss reporting amid a pandemic and the importance of local independent voices in the fight against misinformation. In that sense, this event provided a reconciliation...
Written by Dima Saber, Azza el Masri It has taken us some time to get this post written and published. First, because like most of our Lebanese friends, family members and colleagues based in Beirut and in the diaspora, we needed time to process what has actually happened on August...
In recent weeks, we have been working closely with Open Democracy to address pressing changes in our plans during the COVID-19 outbreak. One of the activities that we were looking forward this year was the Check Global Investigative Camp in July in Tunis for NAWA Newsroom We have been able to...
As a part of our development of partnerships and focus of delivering collaborative training with partners, we are pleased to work with our partners on the production of a new set of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). The three MOOCs which will be produced by Sowt, the Yemeni Archive and...
We are pleased to launch the NAWA Newsroom after a months-long effort to bring together students from five countries – Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Yemen – under a shared interest in and dedication to journalism and digital media literacy. While the newsroom’s launch was initially meant to be inaugurated...
The funding support from the NAWA-IF has enabled The Yemeni Archive to investigate weapon supplying in Yemen. The Syrian Archive report was able to identify the UK among arms-supplying...
‘Aden Then & Now’ is an interactive exhibition which draws on archival material from 1914 onwards in what was then known as the ‘Aden Protectorate’ to better understand more contemporary developments...
