March 09, 2005
Thinking-East.Net - Call for Writers
This call for writers can also be downloaded as a PDF.
Thinking-East
Giving voice to people left behind unheard
CALL FOR WRITERS
"Thinking-East is an innovative venture grounded on intelligent, honest dialogue across frontiers of geography and mind in the service of understanding. It deserves respect and support."
David Hayes / openDemocracy.net
"Thinking-East is a splendid source of on-the-ground information on Central Asia. Its authors give voices and faces to people who all too often only appear as statistics and cliches in the mainstream media."
Lutz Kleveman, author of The New Great Game. Blood and Oil in Central Asia
Thinking-East is a fresh, pioneering project started by two young Western academics to bring together young thinkers from North Africa, the Near and Middle East, and Central Asia to report and reflect upon issues that are important for their homelands. Too often the important issues are overlooked and always the voices of the educated youth - YOU - are ignored.
It is the dream and hope of Thinking-East that by offering regional young thinkers space to publish their ideas in English, unrestrained from the agendas of established publishers and political-intellectual elites, bit by bit we can effect positive changes in our troubled era.
Thinking-East is seeking Guest and Permanent Authors from Central Asia:
-> Guests may submit any article at any time.
-> Permanent Authors commit to submitting at least one article every two months. In return, they become members of the Thinking-East network, an Internet community now stretching from New York City, London and Berlin to Jerusalem, Tashkent and Bishkek, with increasing publicity and growing institutional ties to other reporting projects and youth movements in Central Asia and the United States.
Students of journalism, the social sciences and humanities are preferred, but all our welcome. Furthermore, you do not need to have any prior experience in writing, reporting or activism.
Thinking-East publishes articles of any type (written and photographic essays, interviews, videos, edited e-mail debates, etc.). All published articles are freely licensed to their original authors. The project provides free English language editing for all submissions.
If you are interested or would like more information, please contact us:
Ben Paarmann
Editor
ben@thinking-east.net
Tel: 0044 7906 712 699
"True investigative journalism is more than just detective work... it bears witness and investigates ideas."
John Pilger, Australian journalist
