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MEMRI's work is organized into projects, each with a specific focus. The main subjects the organization addresses are jihad and terrorism; relations between the U.S. and Middle East; pro-democracy and pro-civil rights views; inter-Arab relations; and anti-semitism.[1]

The Reform Project, according to MEMRI, focuses on monitoring, translating, and amplifying media from Muslim figures and movements with progressive viewpoints in the Arab and Muslim world.[2][3][4] The project also aims to provide a platform for those sources to expand their reach. MEMRI has stated that this is the organization's flagship project.[3][4]

The MEMRI Lantos Archives on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial, a joint project with the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice launched in 2009, is a repository of translated Arabic and Farsi material on anti-Semitism.[5] The project is sponsored by the U.S. State Department.[6] Through its translations and research, the project aims to document anti-Semitic trends in the Middle East and South Asia.[7] The project provides policymakers with translations and footage of anti-Semitic comments made by media personalities, academics, and government and religious leaders.[8] MEMRI holds an annual Capitol Hill gathering through the project, and publishes an annual report on Antisemitism and Holocaust denial. The archives were named for Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in United States Congress.[9]

Arab and Iranian television programming is monitored, translated, and analyzed through the MEMRI TV Monitoring Project.[10] Established in 2004,[10] the project's translated video clips are available to the media and general public.[11]

Activity by terrorist and violent extremist organizations is tracked through the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM).[12] The project disseminates jihadi-associated social media content and propaganda released by various Islamic State media companies.[13][14][15]

The organization's Cyber and Jihad Lab (CJL) tracks cyberterrorism.[16] According to MEMRI, the CJL's goal is to inform and make recommendations to legislators and the business community about the threat of cyberterrorism.[17] Initiatives have included encouraging social media companies to remove terrorist accounts and sought legislation to prevent terrorist entities from using their platforms.[18]

MEMRI's other projects include the Russian Media Studies Project, which translates Russian media and publishes reports analyzing Russian political ideology,[19] the Iran Studies Project,[20] the South Asia Studies Project,[21] and the 9/11 Documentation Project.[22]

  1. ^ Greer Fay Cashman (16 April 2009). "Impacting the collective global MEMRI". The Jerusalem Post. The main topics MEMRI deals with are: Jihad and Terrorism Studies; The US and the Middle East; Reforms in the Arab and Muslim World; Inter-Arab relations; Economic Studies; The Anti-Semitism Documentation Project and the Islamist Web sites Monitoring Project. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ^ Rowan Scarborough (12 September 2016). "Group exposing the drumbeat of Islamic State's propaganda machine". The Washington Times. Retrieved 26 October 2016. created its own self-titled "Reform Project" that features videos of Muslims preaching a moderate form of Islam." "'We support and amplify voices of Muslim reformists.'
  3. ^ a b Greer Fay Cashman (16 April 2009). "Impacting the collective global MEMRI". The Jerusalem Post. 'Reforms in the Muslim and Arab world constitute our flagship project,' he said. 'We are big on reforms. We have helped several reform initiatives, and in 2001 we monitored and distributed dissident voices in the aftermath of the bombing of the World Trade Centre. When these voices were small and weak, we were able to amplify them by publishing them - and we keep doing that without support from any quarter. We even helped reform Web sites to operate.' {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. ^ a b Jay Nordlinger (6 May 2002). "Thanks For The Memri (.Org)". The National Review. Retrieved 26 October 2016. Carmon and his team are most eager to stress that a major part of their mission is to highlight the "good guys" in the Middle East: the democrats, or near democrats; the liberals, or near liberals–anyone who evinces the slightest interest in reform.
  5. ^ Richard Greenberg (30 April 2009). "Denying the deniers". Washington Jewish Week. The translated article was the first document officially released by MEMRI's Lantos Archive on Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial"; "The formal dedication of the renamed archive was held a week ago Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol.";"The archive project brings together MEMRI and the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice";"The archive that now bears the Lantos name is the world's largest repository of translated Arabic and Farsi material on anti-Semitism from the past decade {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  6. ^ Ruth Ellen Gruber (15 August 2011). "State Dept. gives $200,000 grants to MEMRI, Centropa". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 25 October 2016. The U.S. State Department awarded $200,000 grants each to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, and the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, known as Centropa."; "MEMRI, a Washington-based group that translates and researches anti-Semitic trends in the Middle East and South Asia, was awarded the grant to document and translate anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Middle East.
  7. ^ Ruth Ellen Gruber (15 August 2011). "State Dept. gives $200,000 grants to MEMRI, Centropa". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 25 October 2016. MEMRI, a Washington-based group that translates and researches anti-Semitic trends in the Middle East and South Asia, was awarded the grant to document and translate anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Middle East.
  8. ^ Marieke van der Vaart (27 July 2011). "Fight against Holocaust denial 'far from over'". The Washington Times. Retrieved 20 September 2016. Mrs. Ros-Lehtinen was one of several human rights advocates who reviewed anti-Semitism in the Middle East and in Sudan at a Capitol briefing organized by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and the Lantos Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial Archives"; "MEMRI, which translates Middle East news reports, released a 15-minute video archive of TV programming at the briefing that showed anti-Semitic comments from television personalities, government officials, academics and clerics in the past year.
  9. ^ Ariel Ben Solomon (16 April 2015). "At MEMRI's Washington event, McCain says world seeing resurgence in anti-Semitism". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 29 August 2016. The sixth annual Lantos Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial Archives Commemoration was sponsored by Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner. The late Tom Lantos, born in Hungary, was a 14-term member of the House of Representatives from California and the only Holocaust survivor to serve in congress."; "MEMRI also presented its annual report on anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Arab and Muslim world
  10. ^ a b Susan Jones (7 July 2008). "Israel Is 'Stealing Palestinian Children's Eyes,' Iranian TV Series Says". CNSNews.com. Retrieved 29 August 2016. Launched on July 1, 2004 the MEMRI TV Monitoring Project tracks and translates Arab and Iranian TV channels
  11. ^ Mariam Lau (23 April 2005). "A window on the Middle East". Die Welt. Retrieved 26 October 2016. Memri also has an 'Arab TV Monitoring Project.' It is accessible - for television journalists even in broadcastable quality - via www.memritv.org, and shows stunning examples of discourse in the Arabic world in the translated sound bites.
  12. ^ Anthony Kimery (10 September 2014). "Apparent New Al Qaeda-Linked Magazine Is Being Published". Homeland Security Today. Retrieved 29 August 2016. The publication was disclosed by the Middle East Media Research Institute's (MEMRI) Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor, which scrutinizes Islamist terrorism and violent extremism worldwide, with special focus on activity within and emanating from the Arab world, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
  13. ^ Neal Ungerleider (14 May 2013). "Virtual Jihad: Chechnya's Instagram Insurgency". Fast Company. Retrieved 26 October 2016. One of the only studies to date, Online Jihadis Embrace Instagram, was published in March by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).";"the report primarily studied Arabic-language propaganda on Instagram along with English-language captions aimed at the outside world. Although the bulk of the content in MEMRI's report came from Syria and Iraq, photographs of dead Chechen fighters were also included.
  14. ^ Amanda Vincinanzo (October 2014). "Countering Cyber Jihad: A Look inside the Middle East Media Research Institute's Cyber Jihad Lab". Homeland Security Today Magazine. One of MEMRI's most important projects, the Jihadist and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM), scrutinizes the main online jihadi websites and forums 24/7. Since the project began, it has expanded to incorporate social media as well. MEMRI has reported on multiple quiet attempts over the past decade of different jihadi groups - mostly associated with Al Qaeda - conducting or attempting to conduct cyber attacks on the websites of the White House, CIA, and FBI. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  15. ^ Andrea Chang and David Paresh (20 August 2014). "Social networks crack down on terror posts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 August 2016. The images and videos get posted to social media websites and then are immediately saved on Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library.
  16. ^ Myra Iqbal (11 June 2015). "The Islamic State Casts a Shadow in Pakistan". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  17. ^ Ariel Ben Solomon (12 December 2014). "US Tech Firms urged to help combat cyber jihad". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 31 August 2016. 'One of the missions of MEMRI's new Cyber Jihad Lab is to explore ways to challenge cyber jihad, including by working and assisting both Western government agencies and the tech community to come up with proper strategies to do this,' he said.
  18. ^ Amanda Vincinanzo (October 2014). "Countering Cyber Jihad: A Look inside the Middle East Media Research Institute's Cyber Jihad Lab". Homeland Security Today Magazine. The Cyber Jihad Lab has worked to advance legislature to hold American social media companies responsible for failing to remove accounts associated with designated terrorist organizations. MEMRI has also issued reports on American companies who host jihadi websites.The Cyber Jihad Lab also offers companies, as well as members of government agencies and the military, the ability to contact MEMRI with questions or for help translating through MEMRI's Assisting America program. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); line feed character in |quote= at position 212 (help)
  19. ^ Jed Babbin (25 August 2016). "A New Window Into Russia". The American Spectator. Retrieved 30 August 2016. "Now, our friends at MEMRI have opened another window, this time on Vladimir Putin's Russia through MEMRI's 'Russian Media Studies Project.' Like MEMRI's studies of Middle Eastern media, MEMRI-Russia provides a lot more than propaganda published at home to the Russian people. It gives considerable insight into what Russian leaders are arguing to each other and to the Russian oligarchy." ; "Which brings us to a report by MEMRI-Russia entitled "Understanding Russian Political Ideology and Vision."
  20. ^ Dan Verten (23 August 2013). "Global Growing Concern About Iran's Offensive Cyber Capabilities". Homeland Security Today. Retrieved 1 February 2017. 'We believe this is a real threat because they have institutionalized their offensive cyber efforts,' said Ayelet Savyon, director of MEMRI's Iran Studies Project, in an interview
  21. ^ "Urdu media has radicalised Muslims, feels ex-BBC scribe". The New Indian Express. 14 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016. Speaking at the launch of his book 'Jihadist Threat to India', the author and director of the South Asia Studies Project, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), US said that Islamism is a methodolgy and that Jihadism is the weaponised version of Islamism.
  22. ^ MEMRI. "9/11 Documentation Project". memri.org. MEMRI. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
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