The Luminous Scope

a virtual portal into North Africa and the Middle East

The Luminous Scope creates traveling educational exhibits about issues in North Africa and the Middle East which highlight topical humanitarian issues and individuals making a positive social impact in the fields of the arts, human rights, education, the environment and women’s issues via short videos, photographs, soundscapes and an interactive blog.

04/05/2016

Can you help?

17/10/2015

Poignant

Starvation - جـــوع

23/09/2015

Check out HADAYA TOYS in LEBANON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEQ2BEATCc

HADAYA TOYS in Lebanon We spread joy one toy at a time by delivering timeless toys, art supplies and books to refugee children who have lost everything due to war. This is our firs...

17/08/2015

Big numbers...

17/07/2015

Big thanks to The Laurel of Asheville for their interest and support!

Spotlight On: Hadaya Toy Baskets All children deserve to enjoy simply being a child. The children Asheville filmmaker Jennifer MacDonald encountered in Syria, however, desperately need an opportunity to expand their horizons physically and emotionally. The situation haunted her all the way home. She mulled over ideas and talked wit…

24/06/2015

Update from The Luminous Scope blog.....
preparations for distribution of the Hadaya Toy bags to the Syrian refugee children.

Journal Update from Lebanon June 15, 2015SHOPPINGI arrived in Beirut last night to find that my right hand man, Walid Rashid, had lost the use of his left hand (and by default his right) by falling from a cherry tree and breaking his collar bone. Walid has been the organizational brains behind the Lebanese…