A blog covering the struggle for civil and human rights in the Middle East

OpenSyria.org aims to serve as one-stop hub for information and news about Syrian groups and individuals who oppose the monopoly on power held by Bashar el-Assad’s regime.

Bitterlemons.org is a website that presents Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on prominent issues of concern. Its goal is to contribute to mutual understanding through the open exchange of ideas.

This website wants to involve people from the Middle East and Europe to enhance understanding by providing texts and information and facilitate spaces for exchange and debate.

The Lamp of Liberty is a non-profit and non-partisan initiative of the Cato Institute’s Byrne Project on Middle East Liberty. It strives to promote the ideas of liberty, justice, and peaceful cooperation in the Middle East through a website, syndicated newspaper articles, book publications, lectures, and seminars.

The goal of MideastWeb.org is to weave a world-wide web of Arabs, Jews and others who want to build a new Middle East based on coexistence and neighborly relations.

Mideast Youth is a student-owned independent network dedicated to eliminate extremist ideologies and ignorance from the Middle East.

The Initiative For an Open Arab Internet is an initiative by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) advocating free use of the Internet without censorship, blocking or spying.

The Arabic word "qantara" means "bridge". The Internet portal Qantara.de represents the concerted effort of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Center for Political Education), Deutsche Welle, the Goethe Institut and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) to promote dialogue with the Islamic world.

Project Syndicate is an international association of quality newspapers devoted to:

• bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere;
• strengthening the independence of printed media in transition and developing countries;
• upgrading their journalistic, editorial, and business capacities.

The Mission of the IWPR is to build peace and democracy through free and fair media.

HAMSA unites Americans of all backgrounds to support the movement to secure civil rights in the Middle East.

The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) is an independent, non-profit, educational foundation that develops and encourages the study and use of civilian-based, nonmilitary strategies to establish and defend human rights, democracy and justice worldwide.

OpenDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy. We aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard. We believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice.

Founded in 1982, Search for Common Ground works to transform the way the world deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. We work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalities.

The Tharwa Community was designed as a unique portal for activists and bloggers from the Broader Middle East and North Africa region interested in improving inter-communication between them in the hope of establishing a true community of democratic voices from across the region.