Soliya - global network between the "West" & "Arab/Muslim World"

Soliya is developing a global network of young adults and empowering them to bridge the divide between the "West" and the "Arab & Muslim World."

Soliya is a pioneering non-profit organization using new technologies to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe. Our flagship program, the Connect Program, uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. In a time when media plays an increasingly powerful role in shaping peoples’ viewpoints on political issues, Soliya provides students with the opportunity, skills, and tools to shape and articulate their own viewpoints on some of the most pressing global issues facing their generation. more

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Creativity in Schools

A humorous and thoughtful talk about how creativity is cultivated or suppressed in our current education system. Good to listen to if you're doing mindless internship work, like stuffing envelopes.

Kids with Cameras again?

Good evening my fellow coco-pebbles. I would love to see this type of per-student navigation be incorporated into our micro-sites. There is a lot of clutter but there is a lot of fat that can be trimmed. This is a great way to condense student bios with their images. I will be more eloquent and explicit when I see you all in the morning. Definitely explore this site because there are a lot of cool pages like this one about the hope house. And if you have not yet seen the Born into Brothels, you must.

Simon