MEMRI: Subjects

Subjects

The threat of militant-Islamic terrorist organizations operating in the United States has become a reality. In response, MEMRI has established a Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project to monitor militant-Islamic groups that educate and preach Jihad and martyrdom in mosques, school systems, and in the media. This project will also focus on individuals and radical Islamist organizations, sermons and religious rulings (fatwas) and reactions to terrorist attacks both in the U.S. and abroad.
This section MEMRI's website features translation and analyses of Middle Eastern news events which impact U.S. Middle East Policy.
MEMRI's Reform in the Arab and Muslim World focuses on advocates of reform, and the debate surrounding it, within the Middle East and Muslim world. The project is divided into four main categories: Social Reform, which will focus on women's rights, civil society, and educational systems. Political Reform, which includes debates on democracy and the rule of law, protection of the individual, and freedom of speech, religion, and assembly. Also, Religious Reform, which covers the debate on reform in Islam, as well as the misuse of religion. Finally, the Reform Project will cover Economic Reform, which examines issues of free market economy, globalization, and modernization.
This section of the website focuses on current developments in the peace-process, as well as its breakdown, and will review the relationship between major Arab nations and Israel.
This section of the website focuses on main inter-Arab developments such as the decline of pan-Arab nationalism, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and will review elements of unity and disunity in the Arab world.
The primary purpose of the economic report is to bring to the American reader news and comments of an economic nature on the Middle East based on surveys of primarily non-English sources. The sources include newspapers, and reports and studies published in Arabic, Hebrew, and occasionally, Turkish.
This section of MEMRI's website documents Arabic newspaper reports, editorials, and other media sources which are primarily based upon antisemitic themes. During recent years, Arab antisemitism has become a main catalyst of antisemitic incidents throughout the world.
The Islamist Websites Monitor, which focuses on the major jihadi websites, is a new initiative of MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project. It will be regularly releasing translated news, analysis, and videos from these websites. The URLs of the sites will be available upon request.
The MEMRI Urdu/Pashtu Media project will include translations and analysis from Urdu and Pashtu media. This project comes as a timely addition to the monitoring, translation, and analysis of media in Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish that MEMRI has conducted for the past decade. MEMRI will be taking its media coverage to the heart of one of the focal regions of Islamism and jihad and will be reporting directly from the world's fault line: the Pakistan-Afghanistan region.