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Understanding Campaign in Ode Magazine
November 2, 2010
From the article:“As words and experiences go, I’d say understanding will go a long way toward peace.”
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Yoko Ono tweeted us
October 25, 2010We’re pretty excited to have the legendary artist Yoko Ono tweet the Understanding Campaign. She’s kind of the coolest ambassador of peace and understanding around. She’s kind of our favorite person ever right now. http://www.twitter.com/yokoono
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Justin and Haneen interviewed on WYPR – NPR
October 12, 2010 View Comments -
Urbanite Mag calls the Understanding Campaign “… [a] big-hearted and ingenuous Web-based campaign.”
October 1, 2010“This human connection was the alchemy by which Sirois and Alshujairy began to make meaning of their separate lives brought together by the conflict in Iraq. Such a relationship begins with small steps, sometimes one word at a time.”
http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/baltimore/one-word-at-a-time/Content?oid=1309508
by Michael Corbin
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WYPR (NPR) interview with Justin and Haneen speaking for the first time ever on the phone
September 23, 2010No kidding. After almost three years of knowing each other, after collaborating on two books and the Understanding Campaign, Justin and Haneen talk on the phone for the first time. Crazy right? Who does stuff like that? We do! I hope those amazing NPR guys didn’t edit out us laughing at each other for 30 seconds. Adorable.
View CommentsTune in to WYPR (Baltimore, Fredrick, and Ocean City, Maryland) or go to http://www.wypr.org/ at noon tomorrow – Friday the 24th – to hear the interview. A repeat broadcast will air at 7pm.
AS A BONUS, anyone who pledges more than 50 dollars between 12pm and 7pm tomorrow will get a Newlights Press print. It’s hand letter-pressed and beautiful. It’s perfect for your office next to your presidential medal of valor.
Spread the word!
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Understanding Campaign gets Best of Baltimore!
September 22, 2010Best Campaign
Understanding Campaign
Local writer/designer Justin Sirois and Egypt-based Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy previously collaborated on the novel Falcons on the Floor. Since the beginning of this year they have been collaborating on another project, the Understanding Campaign. The goal: to get everyone in the world to read just one word of Arabic—fhm (pronounced “fuh’hem”), which means “understanding”—in hopes of getting people to consider opting for understanding over conflict. To date, a number of other artists—including Baltimore’s Post Typography and Squid Fire and Egyptian calligrapher Ahmed Kandil—have created their versions of fhm written in Arabic, and Sirois and Haneen launched their Kickstarter drive for the campaign Sept. 20, hoping to raise funds to start a nonprofit organization that promotes literary projects that bring the Arab- and English-speaking worlds closer. Shukran.
http://citypaper.com/bob/arts-and-entertainment-1.1023680
Thank you Bret and Lee and everyone over at the Baltimore City Paper.
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