Stories
Our stories examine the ways that race, religion, class, dis/ability, age, gender and sexual identity issues intersect with major topics in the media, and aim to bring new perspectives to light.
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Egypt Homosexuality Debate: Luxury or Breaking a Taboo?
Published: 10 August 2015 Country: Egypt By Heba Katoon Facebook turned into a rainbow-drenched platform following the U.S. Supreme Court’s …
Broken Borders: Films about People Beyond the News Coverage
Dates: 7-13 August 2015 Country: UK Broken Borders is a new season of films exploring different and deeper perspectives on …
Media in Sri Lanka: from Division to Inclusion?
Published: 3 August 2015 Country: Sri Lanka Ahead of August 17 Parliamentary elections, all Sri Lankans are talking about is …
MDI Western Balkans’ New Project on More Transparent High Educat...
Published: 2 August 2015 Country: Serbia Almost 80 per cent of young academics in Serbia do not believe their country …
Get the Trolls Out!
Online Monitors against Antisemitic Speech Needed! Apply here before 20 August!
Call for Online Monitors Against Antisemitic Hate Speech
Deadline: 20 August 2015 Region: Europe Do you want to contribute to the fight against antisemitism at a European level? …
Richard Dawkins, the Liberator of Women?
Published: 28 July 2015 Region: Worldwide ‘Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to …
Who’s Afraid of Miniskirts?
Date: 25 July 2015 Region: Morocco/MENA Professor Manuel Castells, the sociologist well known for his theories on network society in …
Cameron – Combating Extremism or Attacking Freedom of Speech?
Published: 23 July 2015 Country: UK The British Prime Minister David Cameron presented his 5-year-plan for fighting ‘home-grown’ Islamic extremism …
Get the trolls out! MDI to counter antisemitism in Europe
Published: 15 July 2015 Region: Europe The recently launched MDI project “Get the trolls out!” will counter incidents of antisemitic …
