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- Arts
- Human rights
- Media
- Research
- Youth and education
With courage and innovation, Majal addresses issues that receive little or no attention: the rights of the invisible lower income migrant workers, the ‘stigmatized’ LGBTQ community, and those seeking to express dissent through music. Our mission is to amplify underrepresented voices to help build informed communities that celebrate and protect diversity and promote social justice.
Below is an overview of our work:
Ahwaa: Serving the Arab LGBT community
Ahwaa is a bilingual discussion platform for the LGBT community in the Arab world that leverages game mechanics to facilitate high-quality interaction. Its unique functionality provides a fun and easy way to share stories, request advice, and seek solidarity.
CrowdVoice.org: Harnessing the power of crowdsourced media to contextualize social movements throughout the world.
Migrant-Rights.org: Advocating and promoting awareness on migrant issues across the GCC and wider Middle East. Migrant-Rights.org (MR) is the Middle East's foremost platform dedicated to advancing rights of migrant workers. Currently focusing primarily on the GCC countries and their corridors of migration, MR bridges the spectrum of the region’s otherwise self-contained stakeholders by producing resources for citizens, academics, media, local civil society organizations, as well as migrants.
Mideast Tunes: A web and mobile app showcasing underground musicians in the Middle East and North Africa who use music as a tool for social change. (mideastunes.com)
The mission of Mideast Tunes is to unite people across social, political, and religious barriers by creating constructive discourse through music. Mideast Tunes has reinforced the value of music as more than just a creative outlet, but as a social tool that amplifies the voices of marginalized communities, especially youth, in a way that transforms the entire narrative around the Middle East and North Africa.
The platform is a microcosm of what the region has to offer. Many of our artists are women who perform across a wide variety of genres, or artists from minority communities who face multiple barriers in their search for expression. With over 1,500 bands registered, and over 250,000 mobile app users, the demand for the platform continues to rise. In these times of political turmoil, music and art serves an important purpose, challenging its audience to reconnect with truth and beauty despite the world’s destructive forces.
Leading and participating in workshops on the use of digital media and technology for advocacy, assisting other organizations in the ALF Network, making other regional organizations aware of ALF's ongoing projects and iinitiatives for potential participation.
We share a lot of the core values at ALF and find ourselves to be a good fit aligned with ALF's vision in the target areas and countries it focuses on. We also want to be made aware of ALF's work in the field and to assist wherever possible, as well as working with its regional partners to help advance, solidify and protect other civil society organizations in our field.