132 California street, Kronfol Bldg., Ras Beirut
Beirut 1103
Lebanon
- Media
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.
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.