Munathara

WHO WE ARE

INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARABIC SPEAKERS

The Munathara Initiative is a registered non-profit organization founded in 2012 with offices in Washington D.C. and Tunis, Tunisia.The Initiative aims at creating an independent and inclusive discussion and debate platform in the MENA region. The Munathara Initiative is working to provide everyone in the Arabic speaking world with a voice regardless of their age, gender or background in order to create a public sphere characterized by evolvability and tolerance towards different points of view.

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Where we work

We are located in :

Washington D.C, USA

Tunis, Tunisia

Beirut, Lebanon

Tripoli, Libya

Rabat, Morocco

About Us

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

ONLINE ENGAGEMENT

REVIVING ARAB DEBATE CULTURE

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Followers

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Registred Members

Our projects

#Opinion Makers : Tunisia & Lebanon

Our projects

Lubnan_Townhall

Lubnan Townhall is Munathara’s public interest media initiative, bringing together a number of the country’s leading broadcasters to air a series of townhalls through a single, unified feed. The programs will discuss major national challenges facing Lebanon and feature the voices of young citizens from across the country.

Our projects

Oumour T'hemna

Omour T’hemna (“What Matters to Us”) is a Public Interest Media project established in partnership with the Tunisian Union of Associative Media (UTMA) to produce local associative web-FM radio shows accessible to listeners across all 24 of Tunisian governorates.

Our projects

Debating Our Destiny (DOD)

DOD aims to empower youth, women, and marginalized communities (YWM) across Arabic speaking communities in 15 countries, including: Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Yemen, and diaspora communities in Turkey, France and Germany.

Our Activities

Impact TV

Since its establishment in 2012, the Munathara Initiative has promoted the voices of youth, women and marginalized (YWM) communities in the Arabic public sphere to meet their growing desire for participation in society, politics, and governance.

Public Interest Media

Public Interest Media is broadly defined as generating and disseminating information that serves everyone in society. According to the Ethical Journalism Network, “it is about the common good, the general welfare and the security and well-being of everyone in the community we serve.”

Musabaqat

The Munathara Initiative launches a dedicated Musabaqa (“Competition”) for each of its live shows. In order to enter a Munathara Musabaqa, participants are invited to record then upload speeches either supporting or opposing the presented Musabaqa motion in video format to MUNATHARA'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE.

Workshops

Parallel to its online outreach campaigns, The Munathara initiative works closely with local and regional civil society organisations. Munathara’s certified outreach debate trainers provide on the ground training sessions to Arabic speakers both within and outside the MENA region, especially focusing on marginalised and rural areas.

Opinion Makers: Tunisia & Lebanon

Opinion Makers is a youth-oriented project that aims to strengthen the debate culture in Tunisia and Lebanon by empowering a new generation of opinion leaders to shape important national conversations. In pursuing this objective, Opinion Makers will expand public spaces for conversation, foster civic participation of underrepresented voices and marginalized communities, promote accountable governance through constructive engagement between duty-bearers and citizens, and give rise to and support emerging opinion leaders in the region.