Recently, I had the opportunity to know a bunch of Yemenis youth who are open minded, well educated and very intelligent as well, so I keep asking myself how to change the stereotyped image of Yemen's youth in the region and around the world , especially after the western medias put Yemen as a breathing ground of terrorist and extremism.
Mr. Fernando (an American researcher) who own a consulting company called "Global Link" came up with an idea of a debate in English ,so we decided with other two friends (Shady & Ahmed Assery) to establish new initiative called "Bina' Initiative" to execute debate projects in English every year to spread the awareness among Yemenis youth about how important to build dialogues with others who are deferent then us in any aspect, and at the same time,we break the pattern stereotyped image of Yemenis in the western media and the world.
therefore,I start calling some friends to participate in Building debate project ,then Mr Fernando started giving them lectures of how to do academic debate.The participants really liked it and they feel like they learn something new in term of the way of research and how to rebuttal the open statement of other opponent .
The debate is going to be held at the last week of march, and there's going to be prizes for the winners.
