Your Middle East

We are a private, for-profit company owned by its Swedish founders who have no direct or indirect affiliations or vested interests in the MENA region. While we remain politically neutral, our value base is built on the UN Charter of Human Rights. Our work is funded through a transparent network of crowd, corporate, governmental and non-governmental... partnerships, donations and advertisement. Your Middle East is a young, innovative company that challenges existing structures and looks for new paths with the aim to change MENA societies and the world for the better. We've covered the Gaza war from the ground, visited Salafists in Cairo who invite Christian youth to their meetings, talked to Saffron retailers in Iran, met Tunisian resistance dancers, and interviewed an atheist in Saudi Arabia. In our first 24 months of operation we have published more than 20,000 articles. Today, most traditional news companies struggle with expensive organizations and red numbers. That's not what we do. By engaging bloggers, activists, tweeters, and combining their stories with those of established journalists, academics, and experts, we offer a much more interesting soup than traditional media at a fraction of the cost. Ironically, this is exactly why many of the more established publications now turn to us for stories they can't find in the news wires or from their few correspondents. The Washington Post in the US, Austria's Der Standard, France's Courrier International and Sweden's Dagens Nyheter - all leading publications in their respective country - have republished or rewritten our stories. Just to mention a few.Read More