For nearly a decade and a half – from before 9/11 and the dawning of the reform movement in the Middle East to the Arab Spring and the end of the bin Laden era, MEMRI has worked to compile the most extensive archives of translations and analyses from the Arab and Muslim world, analyzing crucial developments impacting the security of the U.S. and the West, with a focus on the many reformist and liberal voices that began to speak out and rapidly gathered momentum.
MEMRI relies solely on the generosity of our donors to add research on a daily basis to our extensive archives. During this busy and important time, we have been working around the clock monitoring, translating, and analyzing primary source material from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, to "Bridge the Language Gap Between the Middle East and the West."
As a MEMRI reader, you are familiar with our continuing efforts to monitor more media sources in more countries, research more subjects, and translate into more languages. Your generous support for MEMRI enables us to assist the U.S. government and military in the day-to-day fight against extremism – including monitoring terrorists, supporting reformists, and documenting antisemitic hatred and other forms of bigotry in the region's media. Our work benefits our troops abroad and policymakers at home – and is all the more essential in light of the grave shortage of translators qualified to work for the U.S. government and military.
MEMRI staffers across the world translate from hundreds of Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Hindi, Urdu/Pashtu and Turkish newspapers, magazines, television shows and websites. No other organization does such research. But producing and distributing our research and maintaining our numerous websites is an increasingly costly undertaking.
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