As a past donor to MEMRI, you know that for nearly 25 years MEMRI has been meeting the constantly evolving challenge of bridging the language gap between the West and the Arab and Muslim world, from the Gulf to the Arabian Peninsula to Africa, including Iran, Afghanistan, and Turkey. In recent years, we have added Russian and Chinese to our priority languages, as both Russia and China pose significant threats to the U.S. and the West. You know about our vital research, translations from primary sources, and original analysis.
While we are aware that you must be receiving many end-of-year donation appeals from nonprofit organizations, we would be grateful if you would allow us to explain why MEMRI is deserving of your support.
MEMRI research continues to focus on the most recent developments in the Arab and Muslim world, providing key research, primary source translations, and original analysis to U.S. and foreign governments, counterterrorism officials, law enforcement, militaries, and other authorities, to help them tackle threats and prevent terror attacks. We work with media to inform their understanding of the complexities of issues and developments in the Middle East and South Asia, Russia, and China, and serve as a valuable resource for academia worldwide.
We also continue to assist U.S. federal and state agencies and governments overseas, including throughout Europe and in Australia, by providing real-time information on threats and alerts that we identify in our monitoring of domestic terrorist, white supremacist, antisemitic, and jihadi online activity. No one else does the work that we are doing.
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, 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 research output equals or surpasses that of similar organizations many times our size with many times our budget. In the past decade, not a single day has passed without MEMRI research being published.
As 2021 draws to a close, we are asking you today, as our loyal reader and past donor, to help us continue our essential work. We cannot do this without you.
PLEASE HELP US TODAY SO WE CAN CONTINUE OUR WORK INTO 2022
So far this year, MEMRI has published 569 Special Dispatch translations and 165 Inquiry and Analysis reports and Daily Briefs, and have sent out 921 emails of translations and research to readers like you.
MEMRI TV In 2021: Releasing Clip No. 9000 – Now Over 330 Million Views Worldwide
In July 2021, MEMRI TV released its 9,000th clip, topping nearly 60,000 minutes of translated content since the project's launch in 2004. These clips, from Arab and Iranian as well as from Urdu, Turkish, Russian, and Chinese channels, are used by governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, legislatures, media, and academia worldwide, with over 330 million views to date in 238 countries and territories, and often prompt reactions from the media outlets highlighted in them. The MEMRI TV Archives comprise the world's largest collection of broadcast video content translated from these languages into English. In 2021 the project has so far released 585 translated clips, and MEMRI TV clips have had a total of more than 10 million views on all platforms. If you have not already subscribed to the MEMRI TV project, we invite you to do so, at www.memri.org/subscribe-now.
Helping Fight Extremism Through Our Cutting-Edge Research Projects
On a daily basis, MEMRI is helping fight extremism, on the ground and in cyberspace, through our Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM), Domestic Terrorism Threat Monitor (DTTM), and Cyber and Jihad Lab (CJL) projects. This year the JTTM assisted U.S. and Western authorities with massive amounts of information on jihadis, including potential lone-wolf attackers – leading, in some cases, to arrests and prosecutions. The DTTM continues to track online neo-Nazi and white supremacist incitement, in the U.S. and internationally, exposing planning, threats, and calls to action, and works closely with authorities in the U.S. and abroad. Additionally, the CJL is consistently on the forefront of research into terrorist use of cryptocurrency and encryption, social media, drone technology, and hacktivism, and works with Capitol Hill, the Department of Justice, and other government agencies, as well as with tech companies and technology industry leaders in the U.S. and abroad.
Access MEMRI Research On Social Media
Readers can now access MEMRI research on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn in addition to free email subscriptions – over 500,000 subscribers are already doing so.
YOUR TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION SUPPORTS MEMRI RESEARCH TODAY – AND FOR 2022
In offices located around the globe, MEMRI's dedicated research teams produce cutting-edge research around the clock, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
MEMRI RESEARCH IS MORE CRUCIAL NOW THAN EVER – WE NEED YOUR HELP TODAY
Please support MEMRI today to help us continue our success. Your donation is 100% tax-deductible. You may donate online at www.memri.org/donate, mail a check to MEMRI, P.O. Box 27837, Washington, DC 20038-7837, or phone us at 202-955-9070.
In gratitude for your consideration,
