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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 Ynet 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.
KHARTOUM | Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:11pm EST KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Senior Muslim clerics have urged Sudanese youngsters to boycott Valentine's Day, saying it is a Western institution that could lead couples astray. Members of the Sudan Ulema Authority, an influential body of religious leaders, called on young men and women to ignore the event on February 14 and resist the temptation to mark it by taking romantic strolls in parks.
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!
With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. In this ethnography of contemporary youth culture in Iran's capital, Shahram Khosravi examines how young Tehranis struggle for identity in the battle over the right to self-expression. His analysis reveals the transformative power these spaces have and how they enable young Iranians to develop their own culture as well as individual and generational identities. Khosravi teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Excerpts: Expectations of Modernity
Agents of change | Iranian.com
Iraqi youth’s needs and hopes - Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead
by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq) 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.
The accused and their families have denied any neo-Nazi activity 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.
