Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 2003
The executive director of Zayed International Center for Coordination and Follow Up asserted that the aim of the campaign of the Jewish student is to prevent the center from communicating with the Western public opinion.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Egyptian authors show a continuous interest in discussions how to improve the Arab image in the West. This article was written on the request of Dr. Hamdi Hassan for Al-Ahram but not published. The article explains how Arabs can work on improving their image. They can do this IF they are realy...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
The Egyptian weekly Akher Saa published a number of articles with the title: “They sow hatred, malice and war.” [AWR, 2003, week 4, art. 26; week 6, art. 33; week 7, art. 37] The ‘they´ in the title refers to Israelis and Jews. Akher Saa lifts out negative statements on Arabs and Islam from Israeli...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Many people in the West accused the Ramadan series A Knight Without a Horse of anti-Semitism. Egyptians denied this. The series is evaluated in this article. The conclusion is that A Knight Without a Horse served as an outlet for Egyptian frustration of being helpless observers of Palestinian...
Date of source: Friday, November 29, 2002
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) provides free translations of Arabic media but their selection shows a pro-Israeli attitude. A large part of the texts either confirms Israel’s policies or reveals the authors as anti-Israeli extremists who therefore discredit Arabic media.
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 2004
The new U.S. State Department’s office entrusted with monitoring acts of anti-Semitism will apparently focus on the Arab world for several considerations. One of these considerations is that the American report in this concern will be based on material from Zionist organizations like the Anti-...
Date of source: Saturday, December 14, 2002
MEMRI denies writing the first paragraph of their dispatch in October 2000. They believe that Rev. Snyder changed the title and added that paragraph himself after reading the text that was put out by MEMRI.
Date of source: Saturday, December 7, 2002
The MEMRI writes many of its translations “bring honor and respect to the Arab world and show it isn´t made up of radicals only.” Hulsman provides examples of MEMRI placing some of their translations in a wrong context.
Date of source: Saturday, December 7, 2002
MEMRI´s translations show the Arabic media becomes more polarized but MEMRI does not explain the background of this polarization nor compares this with the Hebrew media which is probably not less polarized
Date of source: Friday, November 22, 2002
It is often believed that the best defence is an attack. This is the approach that Yigal Carmon seems to use to defend his institute in the Guardian. His article starts out immediately by accusing Brian Whitaker of the Guardian of selective journalism. But who is selective?