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Mashallah News is a collaborative online platform with a cross-cultural outlook on the Middle East and beyond. Since our foundation in 2010, we have featured over 600 original stories from more than 200 contributors about daily life, urban issues, culture and society in the region. Our platform has been awarded several times, including with a 2012 Anna Lindh Mediterranean Journalism Award given to our former editor Sophie Chamas. During the past two years we have received funding through a joint project in Lebanon run by the Lebanese NGO Jibal. One of the people behind it is Jenny Gustafsson, one of Mashallah News’ co-founders and editors. This funding comes from the Lebanese office of GIZ, the German development agency. Within the scope of that project, Mashallah News has produced and published one journalistic series on migration in Lebanon (and will produce another one this fall) with contributions from former participants to our trainings on journalism and migration. In the past years, we have received funding through the workshop project organised with bapob and Tabadol. These were funded by the Erasmus+ program and the French-German youth program OFAJ. We also received funding for our editorial collaboration with Orient XXI, which comes mostly from the French development agency AFD.
We believe that our region is dynamic and diverse, and rich with stories that rarely make it into conventional media. Our aim is to showcase such stories and, thereby, diversify the media image of the region and imagine alternative futures and realities.
During our ten years of existence, besides publishing stories on our platform, we have organised conferences and workshops on journalism, storytelling and culture, and authored a book about Beirut. We are also in our third year of hosting week-long trainings for young journalists about migration.
We can contribute in many different ways, our expertise in the media sector for example and our experience with intercultural projects.
In fact we are already part of the ALF network in Lebanon, but since our administrative registration is under French law, we want to be part of the French network in order to be able to apply to upcoming calls.