Dear Friend of MEMRI,
We are writing to you as Vice President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which this year marked its 23rd year of operations.
#GivingTuesday – our nation's annual day of generosity, when we Americans recommit, through volunteering and charity, to causes important to us – falls this year on November 30. On this occasion, many Americans choose to support organizations that assist in U.S. defense and security and that provide insight and clarity on issues that are critical in these tumultuous times.
We recognize that you receive many end-of-year requests for support from nonprofit organizations, but we would be grateful if you could take the time to allow us to present our case for why we deserve your support in these difficult times.
In today's era of disinformation and "fake news," MEMRI research on the Arab and Muslim world – all its countries and their political, military, and religious leaders, trends within them, conflicts among them, and other key aspects – is vital to understanding the region.
Despite the tremendous difficulties we all have faced in 2021, MEMRI has remained one of the world's most productive nonprofit think tanks focusing on the Middle East and South Asia and on threats to the U.S. and the West. Our phenomenal research output equals or surpasses that of similar organizations many times our size with many times our budget. Not only that, but six years ago, we launched our Russian Media Studies Project to present to our audiences Russia's domestic and international politics. Additionally, last October we launched our Chinese Media Studies project, with the goals of informing military and government, including the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, of all Chinese efforts to harm the U.S. in a variety of ways; exposing China's educational system, which constitutes the official indoctrination of its masses; exposing the government-operated "influencers" that carry the China Communist Party (CCP) messages to the larger population; following the military preparations to attack Taiwan, as well as other regions in which China considers itself to have hegemony; and identifying Chinese efforts to harm U.S. with cyberattacks and with its soft power inside the U.S.
In all 50 U.S. states and Washington, DC, lawmakers, counterterrorism officials, law enforcement, and other first responders turn to MEMRI. In Congress, we meet regularly with staff of leading Republican and Democratic committee members. We provide our research to the White House and the Departments of State, Homeland Security, and Justice, the National Counterterrorism Center, the TSA, and others. In the U.S. and worldwide, MEMRI research has prevented terrorist attacks. We assist academia, including 700+ universities and institutions of higher learning, in the U.S. and worldwide. MEMRI research is regularly used by leading U.S. print and broadcast media outlets – including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and CNN, as well as by leading foreign media across the world. Our research is also available free of charge to the general public. No one else does the work that we are doing.
As 2021 draws to a close, we are asking you today, as our reader, to help us continue our essential work. We cannot do this without you.
So far this year, MEMRI has published 512 Special Dispatch translations and 144 Inquiry and Analysis reports and Daily Briefs, and has sent out 862 emails of translations and research to readers like you.
Other MEMRI projects include: exposing hate-filled sermons in mosques across the U.S., Canada, and Europe; monitoring the threat of white supremacism and neo-Nazism online; amplifying the voices of reformists in the Middle East and South Asia; and monitoring, translating, and analyzing the Russian and Chinese media, following ideologies and strategies as well as its activities inside Russia and China, in their orbits and areas of influence, and in the Arab and Muslim world. MEMRI is assisting Western authorities on a daily basis in connection with all these issues and more.
This #GivingTuesday, please help MEMRI continue its crucial work in support of American freedom and security.
Sincerely,
