Abbreviation | MEMRI |
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Founded | December 1, 1997[1] |
Type | 501(c)(3)[2] |
52-2068483[2] | |
Legal status | Think tank (non-profit) |
Focus | Media monitoring |
Headquarters | Washington, D.C., United States |
Region | Worldwide |
Product | Media research, English-language translation, original analysis |
Official language | English |
President | Yigal Carmon |
Vice president | Alberto M. Fernandez |
Executive director | Steven Stalinsky |
Senior analyst | Nimrod Raphaeli |
Oliver Revell[3] Michael Mukasey[3] Reid Morden[3] Robert R. Reilly[3] Jeffrey Kaufman[3] Steven Emerson[3] | |
Revenue (2018) | $6,292,683[4] |
Expenses (2018) | $6,247,476[4] |
Employees (2017) | 20 (United States) 57 (international)[4] |
Volunteers (2017) | 5[4] |
Website | www |
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), officially the Middle East Media and Research Institute,[1] is an American non-profit press monitoring organization co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1997.
Critics describe MEMRI as a strongly pro-Israel advocacy group that, in spite of describing itself as being "independent" and "non-partisan" in nature,[5][6][7] aims to portray the Arab world and the Muslim world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it re-publishes.[8][9] It has also been accused of selectively focusing on the views of Islamic extremists while de-emphasizing or ignoring mainstream opinions.[10]
The group has an established reputation for distributing highly selective, distorted, and inaccurate translations of Arabic and Persian media