MEMRI
| Abbreviation | MEMRI |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 |
| Type | 501(c)(3) |
| 52-2068483 | |
| Legal status | Think tank (non-profit) |
| Focus | Media monitoring |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., United States |
Region | Worldwide |
| Product | Media research, English-language translation, original analysis |
Official language | English |
President | Yigal Carmon |
Vice president | Alberto M. Fernandez |
Executive director | Steven Stalinsky |
Senior analyst | Nimrod Raphaeli |
| Oliver Revell Michael Mukasey Robert R. Reilly Jeffrey Kaufman Yigal Carmon Alberto Fernandez Steven Stalinsky Anna Mahjar-Barducci | |
| Revenue | $9.24 million (2021) |
| Expenses | $7.77 million (2021) |
| Website | www |
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), officially the Middle East Media and Research Institute, is an American non-profit press monitoring organization. MEMRI tracks and translates Arabic and Muslim media, including extremist comments by Arab and Iranian leaders and communications from terrorist groups.
MEMRI was co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1998. MEMRI describes itself as being independent and non-partisan. Some critics have described MEMRI as aiming to portray the Arab world and the Islamic world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it republishes.