"MEMRI is the single most important source for understanding what is happening in the Greater Middle East and what we must know to fight effectively the war on terrorism both at home and abroad."
James Woolsey
Former CIA Director and MEMRI Board Member
"I am proud to be a part of the MEMRI team and looking forward to growing MEMRI's products in the future."
Lt.-Gen. Vincent R. Stewart (ret.)
MEMRI Special Advisor and Chairman of Board of Advisors, Former Deputy Commander Of U.S. Cyber Command And Former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director
“Since leaving government, I’ve learned that the private sector does this quite well. One excellent example is the Middle East Media Research Institute (where I am among nearly three dozen members of an unpaid board of advisers), an independent nonprofit that has built quite a reputation tracking traditional and nontraditional media in the Middle East and South Asia.”
Gen. Michael Hayden
MEMRI Board of Advisors member, retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
"MEMRI has proved itself as one of the best institutions in town in its depth of knowledge regarding all things Middle East. What makes you particularly strong and what I have found invaluable is your understanding of open source, on the group intelligence. I look forward to meeting with you again."
Ted Poe
Former Congressman and MEMRI Board Member
"We all need to do more to help those who are risking their lives for the sake of positive and definitive change in the region - many talk of doing this, but MEMRI is actually putting that good will into practice."
Alberto M. Fernandez
President of Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) and Former MEMRI Vice President
“For anyone interested in what is really happening in the Middle East, MEMRI, is utterly indispensable. Scholars, journalists and policymakers should read it daily.”
The Washington Post
“Most of the U.S. administration’s and media information from the Arabs is now delivered from the Middle East Media Research Institute.”
Al-Ahram
“I am writing to express my gratitude to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and its ongoing work… MEMRI provides a huge resource to me personally for analyzing primary resources. The translations of video and print sources MEMRI provides are extremely helpful in this regard.”
Intelligence coordinator and law enforcement liaison
Transportation Security Administration
“The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has utilized the Middle East Media Research (MEMR) Project on many occasions augmenting the development of current intelligence trends. MEMR is an excellent venue which provides real time open source information."
Special Agent in Charge
U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
“I am writing to thank you and the MEMRI organization for the priceless resources that you have placed at the disposal of those of us in the Department of Defense who are involved in the new “long war” of ideas against Islamist ideology… MEMRI provides the indispensable map to this intellectual terrain.”
Senior Advisor for Information Strategy
Office of the Secretary of Defense
“I have visited your website on numerous occasions and found your collection of videos to be very informative and very beneficial to my research.”
Instructor
Department of Defense Pentagon Force Protection Agency
“This letter is to express my appreciation for the enormous public service that MEMRI provides by translating broadcasts of radical speech around the world into several languages. Your efforts to overcome language barriers helps create a profound sense of situational awareness of those of us who seek to understand the nature and direction of established and incipient threats to western security.”
Senior Advisor, Defense Technology Security Administration
Assistant Secretary of Defense
“I would like to request material from MEMRI TV, to be used in Anti-Terrorism Force Protection training here at JCITA. The videos are shown in conjunction with terrorist methodology classes to DoD employees deploying to high threat areas. The videos are extremely valuable in showing terrorist tactics, techniques and procedures. MEMRI TV has done a wonderful job in compiling these videos, they add to our training immensely.”
Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy
Department of Defense
"Thank you again for all you help! These bulletins are important as they align with an intel product that we are publishing… I am exclusively using MEMRI as I feel it is the best data base out there - I will reference MEMRI when we finalize our intel product."
California Fire Department
