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Mashallah News
National Network
Lebanon
Address
132 California street, Kronfol Bldg., Ras Beirut Beirut 1103 LebanonCountry
LebanonCity
BeirutStreet address 2
132 California street, Kronfol Bldg., Ras BeirutTelephone
+961-70-392863E-Mail (2)
clemgirardot@hotmail.comE-Mail (3)
michelinetoubia@hotmail.comE-Mail (4)
jennygus@gmail.comWebsite
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2011Contact Person1
Ms. Micheline ToubiaJob Title 1
Co-FounderContact Person 2
Ms. Jenny GustafssonJob Title 2
Co-FounderOrganisation Type
Non-Governmental OrganizationFields of Activity
MediaGeneral Information
Mashallah News is an initiative that was started in 2010 by a group of journalists, graphic designers, writers and photographers, and now includes five core members - four editors and one graphic designer - and more than 15 contributors. The core group is based in Beirut and Istanbul, while the collaborators live in different Middle Eastern cities. Up until now, Mashallah News has worked on an entirely voluntary basis, without external sources of funding. Writers and collaborators contribute without reimbursement, and the few expenses Mashallah News has had, have been covered by the founding members as well as by funds raised during two events in Beirut. Mashallah News is partner with Babelmed and La Revue De Tehran, two online platforms with whom we share articles. We are also cooperating with Lebanese citizen media initiative Hibr in organizing events in Beirut.Mission and Objectives
Mashallah News is a new online platform for the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran, that is collective, independent, grass-root, dynamic and cross-cultural. The perspective is social and cultural and the project aims to describe events, circumstances and developments in the daily life of people in the region. Mashallah News tells stories that have important societal implications, artistic value, cultural bearing and regional and global dimensions. The core of Mashallah News is an engagement with contemporary societal change and cultural developments. We believe that Middle Eastern cities are dynamic places, rich with stories that rarely make it to conventional media. Mainstream news coverage of the Middle East is largely focused on geopolitics, something that creates a single-minded conception of the region. Mashallah News aims to describe a different side, and sets out to move beyond narrow categories and such single-minded focus.Main Projects / Activities
Mashallah News has a regional and urban outlook and publishes stories, articles and visuals describing life, society and change. Fourteen cities are covered at the moment but Mashallah News aims to gather writers from all major urban centers between the Moroccan coast and the Iranian shores. Since the start, we have published more than 100 articles, video reports and photo essays from places like Cairo, Jeddah, Istanbul, Ramallah, Algiers and Beirut. This way, the platform contributes to both cross-cultural understanding and inter-regional connections, and to the creation of a new, independent and people-focused media outlook.