Off the Shelf - In ‘Grown Up Digital,’ the Virtues of the Millen. Poll shows rise in premarital sex in Iran - Israel Culture, Ynet. Despite Islamic regime's efforts to promote marriage by age of 29, increasing number of young Iranians wait till their 30s, have sex illegally out of wedlock. Sociologist blames education An increasing number of Iranians are having sex illegally outside marriage, The Guardian reported Monday, quoting Iran's state-run body for youth affairs. A survey by the national youth organization found that more than one in four men aged 19 to 29 had experienced sex before marriage. About 13% of such cases resulted in unwanted pregnancies that led to abortions. Sex outside marriage and abortion are outlawed under Iran's Islamic legal code, the report said. The survey also revealed that the average marrying age had risen to 40 for men and 35 for women, a blow to the government's goal of promoting marriage to shore up society's Islamic foundations.
Asarnia said Iran had around 15 million single young people and that 1.5 million more were becoming eligible for marriage each year. Saudis Race All Night, Fueled by Boredom. Clerics urge Valentine's Day boycott | Oddly Enough | Reute. Inside Vancouver Film School - Iran + Blogging = Motionographer. UPDATE: Because of the incredible attention this piece is getting online thanks to Digg and being featured on Boing Boing, we asked one of the designers, Lisa Temes, to tell us more about the team’s process in approaching this piece. Lisa says: “Our goal for this project as motion designers was to complement an informative and powerful script by using subtle yet engaging imagery. Although we took inspiration from sources such as the recent animated film Persepolis, we created all of our assets by photographing live subjects and tracing them in illustrator, so we were able to achieve the exact look we were aiming for.”
Thanks, Lisa — and stay tuned, VFS Blog readers… you haven’t heard the last of this team! Digital Design students have done it again: a team-made motion design infographic about blogging culture in Iran has just been written up on Motionographer! ShareThis. Iraqi youth’s needs and hopes - Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead. Youth in Iraq were effected very much by the war in Iraq ,their happiness to be free from ex-regime tyranny ,turned soon in to finding themselves in the middle of large conflict.
We in Iraq are eager for peace , good services ,for good education. The youth want to be opened to the world, to learn, explore and feel new experiences, but the realty is all about war, bombs and conflicts, corruption, lack of services, and absence of strong state of law and order. This is forcing youth to think of leaving Iraq or at least search for an alternatives, which make them ends in conditions much worse than the ones the ran from. The USA needs to expand their policy on building people, democracy, freedom . These are rights to be gain and needs people to learn their importance and the methods to use them to get justice for every one regardless of their colour, ethnicity, or religion – something the politicians in Iraq unfortunately failed to do.
Foreign Policy: The Young World. Middle East | Israeli anger over 'Nazi' gro. Israelis have been shocked by the story of a group of young immigrants from the former Soviet Union who allegedly formed a neo-Nazi cell in the Jewish state - founded as a haven from the European anti-Semitism that led to the Nazi Holocaust in World War II. The group, from the central town of Petah Tikva, are said to have filmed themselves carrying out hate crimes, wearing Nazi insignia and proclaiming their allegiance to Adolf Hitler.
Eight young men are being held over 15 assaults of Orthodox Jews, foreign workers and other minority groups. Police said a ninth youth had fled the country. It is thought to be the first organised neo-Nazi cell to be uncovered in Israel, although alleged members and their families have denied any neo-Nazi activity. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke of his outrage at the footage, viewed by ministers at a cabinet meeting, and said that Israeli society had failed to educate the youths. 'Widely ignored' "Some of this generation are completely lost in society.