The role that MEMRI is playing in bringing the voices of the Arab and Muslim Reform – from Arabic into English, to the world – had been absolutely invaluable for everyone who cares about this process and wants to follow it. –
— Thomas Friedman
“… the indispensable Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org).”
— Wall Street Journal, Editorial Page
“MEMRI, the organization which translates from the Arab press. It is a treasure trove of information.”
— Washington Post
“MEMRI just launched the Arab TV Monitor project. Translated segments from Arab TV are posted online, and you can watch the segments or read the transcripts. The TV Monitoring Center will post new clips from the major Arab language channels. You’ll find it at memritv.org.”
— CNN Headline News
“M-E-M-R-I-T-V.org… I hope people go to your website…”
— Sean Hannity, Fox News Channel
“The respected Middle East Media Research Institute.”
— CBS News
"…The influential Middle East Media Research Institute.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
“All quotes are from MEMRI, whose invaluable website translates a vast array of material from the Arab and Iranian media.”
— Boston Globe
“… an invaluable organization called MEMRI”
— New York Daily News
“People who can’t read or speak Arabic can access Web sites such as those of the MidEast Media Research Institute, which translates into English key Arabic print and broadcast media.”
— Chicago Tribune
“The estimable Middle East Media Research Institute, www.memri.org”
— United Press International
“…MEMRI, a leading source of translations of Arab-language media into English…”
— The Atlantic Monthly
“… the invaluable MEMRI…”
— Andrew Sullivan
“The website of the Middle East Media Research Institute, which diligently translates the Arab press.”
— Foreign Policy Magazine
“…the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute.”
— William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard
“MEMRI has succeeded in breaking the near-monopoly on Washington discourse. No source of information is more reliable. MEMRI has an enormous mark on the mind of America. I wish its work would be read by everyone who cares and writes about that frenzied part of the world.”
— Martin Peretz, Owner and Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic
We [Newsweek] do follow what Arab leaders say in Arabic – please remember many of them don’t speak English so any reports on their speeches are on their Arabic speeches. Organizations like memri.org monitor this even more carefully.”
— Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International
“It is almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of the work of MEMRI, which sheds lights on aspects of the Middle East that our enemies would prefer to go unnoticed. MEMRI is simply invaluable asset to any journalist or anyone who wants to understand the Middle East.”
— Rich Lowry, Editor, National Review
“The excellent Middle East Media Research Institute, a Washington -based group that translates samples from the Arab press.”
— The American Spectator
"MEMRI, the amazing institution."
— Die Welt (Germany)
“There is a very useful site that offers an insight into fundamentalist ideology. It is written by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI – www.memri.org). The voice of the Middle East is to be found here, and not just the official voice, but even the sermons given each Friday in mosques around the world. Its pages may provoke revulsion, the variety and volatility of many of the positions is surprising, a mish-mash of opinions from the most moderate and even liberal, to the hardcore.”
— El Pais (Spain)
“Translations on the excellent Middle East Media Research Institute website...”
— Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
“The outfit [MEMRI] runs on a shoestring... MEMRI exists entirely on private donations... Staffers work virtually around the clock, with an almost missionary spirit, feeling that their work is vital, that their moment is now.”
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review
“If there were justice in the universe, the Middle East Media Research Institute would already have been awarded some kind of special-achievement Pulitzer Prize… For more information from and about the Middle East Media Research Institute, see their website at www.memri.org. And if you’re able, please consider sending them a contribution.”
— David Tell, The Weekly Standard
“Thanks to the Middle East Media Research Institute (memri.org) for the invaluable translations.”
— Calgary Sun (Canada)
Exposing the Arab world to the West, a media translation service makes an increasing impact in Washington and inspires dread in Arab capitals... MEMRI has become an indispensable tool. ‘It’s superb,’ says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. ‘It introduces me to important reformists writing in papers... Four out of five times I use MEMRI, it is for reformist writers.’ Without MEMRI, Friedman believes, the Western non-Arabic speaking press would have no chance of diagnosing the diseases the Arab world suffers from. Ned Walker, president of the Middle East Institute in Washington, former assistant secretary of state for the Middle East and former ambassador to Israel, takes MEMRI publications on the road with him, frequently confronting Arab leaders with unacceptable stories in the Arab press. ‘I tell them: You cannot do that.’”
— Jerusalem Report
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