WishBox Media

Wishbox offers you a complete communications toolkit. We provide training and tools to deliver the right storytelling package for your audience. We tell human stories while maintaining the highest professional standards of compelling journalism. We present meaningful content for your successful online campaign. And we offer research services by experts in politics, society and culture across the Middle East.

Wishbox Media is a company that values the power of free speech and digital storytelling to amplify marginalized voices through innovative media techniques. It achieves this goal by providing the training and tools needed to succeed in today’s digital landscape. We guide our clients through a customized process of story design and then offer a complete package, or ‘wishbox’, that includes such tools as customized visual stories, GIF, animation, photography selection, videos and more.

The company was launched in June 2018 with its main office in Amman and works across the Arab world. It aims to contribute to development in the region by creating original media content and producing customized training programs and workshops for Arab youth, aspiring journalists, and non-media professionals. Many countries in the MENA region are home to large diaspora and refugee populations so we strive to use our organization’s services to work with the reality on the ground. We also work with non-profits, helping them to ‘tell their story’ in each place and reach as many people as they can.

We work with our clients according to their individual needs, whether managing their social media or offering a customized digital storytelling package. One of the videos we created for Libraries Without Borders (Alex Soros Foundation) can be viewed here. We have also offered customized original storytelling workshops to non-profits and cultural centers including the Sijal Institute for Arabic Language and Culture and the Middle East non-profit organization, Ruwwad.

We partner with popular, dynamic online educational platforms, a public relations agency that brings a fresh perspective to the media scene, and we collaborate with some of the most talented contemporary Arab artists to produce beautiful images and products.

Our media workshops aim to guide talented creatives in telling the human stories that are often left untold, while maintaining the highest standards of professional journalism and research. The structure of the training program is designed to connect our clients with the best resources and knowledge, creating meaningful content for successful online campaigns across our networks locally, regionally and internationally. We train aspiring reporters, content creators, and media and non-media professionals in a variety of topics such as the art of storytelling, the craft of journalism and new media. We always aim for gender balance and if possible have at least half of each workshop made up of female participants.

We also offer research briefs to guide clients through the complex political, social, cultural, media, and refugee issues of the MENA region in order to improve the knowledge of regional human rights issues on a global scale. The briefs are written exclusively for the client in English or Arabic by journalists, policy makers and others.

As a media professional for the past 17 years, founder and managing director Rana Sweis wanted to partner with organizations and creative professionals, both to find them opportunities and to channel her passion for media. She created Wishbox because she saw a need in the market for talented creatives to contribute to and connect with institutions, organizations, and individuals. She was also inspired to offer customized storytelling packages and research briefs. Storytelling, training, online campaigns and research is what the Wishbox team excels at. The company has a talented in-house team that works on daily tasks, and partners with whom we work closely to implement our ideas and strategies.

Our staff is made up of Arabic and English media content experts. Our interns are a mix of university students and graduates with experience in the Middle East and the media.

Our spacious office in Amman’s Rainbow Street includes a large training room, well-appointed offices for staff, a conference room, and a small kitchenette.