Check out Falafel TV
I genuinely apologize for tricking your salivary glands into secreting liquids with the futile hope of biting into an electronic image.
This is the reason I haven't been writing or filming so much lately. No I haven't been trying to break any falafel eating records. The reason is that I have been staring at this image catatonically for a few months now. This is true, but I have done so with a purpose. This picture now represents an idea that enthralls me like the people who first invented sliced bread. An idea that is vegetarian, Middle Eastern, satiating, green, and yummy. An idea that is sharable, edible, transportable, and something that can me made over and over again. It is a concept that will revolutionize media in the Middle East, change the way the world perceives this region, and most importantly, change the way this region perceives itself.
Here is the idea in 100 words:
The Middle East has a public relations problem. Thanks to the media’s obsession with violence in the region, it is widely imagined as an anarchy of freely-flying bullets and bombs; FalafelTV will fill the gap between how the media represents the Middle East and reality. Just as falafel is a local food that unites the entire Middle East, FalafelTV will offer original, viewer-created content that will present an authentic, local perspective of the Middle East. Through social networking and the medium of internet video, people will be able to connect to and learn from people not so different from themselves.
Falafel TV is currently an internet video broadcaster, a blog on the Middle East, and a documentary production company, all in one. This idea is something I've been dreaming about for a long time and so I'm really excited to see it taking its first baby steps. I look forward your feedback and if you know any video journalists looking to display their work, they can email info@falafel.tv
To see the Middle East for yourself the way it actually is, without the jet lag, Arabic lessons, or diarrhea pills, go to: www.falafel.tv