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Sawt Ashabab is an collaborative multimedia project which aims at engaging young people (age 18-25) from different universities, groups, regions, to report, monitor, and act as 'citizen journalists' for critical issues in Lebanon. We are developing and launching this project now related to the upcoming elections, but we are working to develop this into an ongoing effort engaging young people around Lebanon in regular media production and information & media literacy projects.

There are three main outputs to this current effort: a printed newspaper published as a supplement to partner media outlets (An-Nahar and Al-Akhbar) and distributed as a stand-alone paper on campuses and other youth gathering points (cafes, etc); web content carried on our website and in sections of partner online media outlets (including Al-Akhbar, An-Nahar, Jaridtak, Menassat, and UPI); and video pieces of 3-4 minutes about critical issues of concern to young people, and produced in a creative and original manner, for showing online and possibly through other media outlets.

The web content will be online starting next week and the printed newspaper will be published on June 4th. We are also recruiting a team of students to send us reports live on the day of the elections. Students will be on the ground gathering interviews and reports and producing audiovisual content (videos and podcasts) that will all be published on the website of Sawt Ashabab as well as partner web outlets.

We believe that being able to participate in the creation of an alternative-citizen newspaper is a unique opportunity that every young people should seize and we hope to engage as many as possible for this could be an excellent way to create for the youth an unbiased platform where they could make their voice heard.