Minute 22 is a project about taking a single photo at the exact same time in the Arab world. The objective of the initiative was to document, through pictures, what everyone was doing at a specific snapshot in time.
On Friday 22 August 2008, participants with a camera who were present in the Arab region took a single photo at exactly 2:22pm Lebanon local time. The number twenty-two was selected because it represented the number of countries in the League of Arab States. Individuals living in any of the following countries took part of this project at the respective local times on 22 August 2008: Egypt - 2:22pm | Iraq - 2:22pm | Jordan - 2:22pm | Lebanon - 2:22pm | Saudi Arabia - 2:22pm | Syria - 2:22pm | Yemen - 2:22pm | Libya - 1:22pm | Sudan - 2:22pm | Morocco - 12:22pm | Tunisia - 1:22pm | Kuwait - 2:22pm | Algeria - 12:22pm | UAE - 3:22pm | Bahrain - 2:22pm | Qatar - 2:22pm | Oman - 3:22pm | Mauritania - 11:22am | Somalia - 2:22pm | Palestine - 2:22pm | Djibouti - 2:22pm | Comoros - 2:22pm
Sowar Magazine, the sponsor of the Minute 22 project, published a special edition dedicated to the project. A sample of this edition can be viewed on:
http://issuu.com/
Sowar Magazine is a journalistic and documentary photography magazine based in Lebanon that covers events, cultures, scenes, and individuals in the Middle East and the Arab Gulf. It is distributed to major bookstores in Lebanon and is available through online subscriptions to international readers.
