MEMRI Announces Redesign of MEMRITV Project Website - World's Largest Archive of TV Footage Translated From Arab and Iranian World

MEMRI Announces Redesign of MEMRITV Project Website - World's Largest Archive of TV Footage Translated From Arab and Iranian World

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has announced the redesign of the MEMRITV Project www.memritv.org

The MEMRITV Project maintains the world's largest archives of footage translated from the Arab and Iranian world. A total of 1,522 clips, and more than 14,000 hours of footage have been produced. MEMRITV is viewed in 197 countries around the world; to date over 20 million visitors have accessed this site.

The MEMRITV Project focuses on the latest developments in the Middle East in the political, ideological, religious and social spheres.

Established in 2004 with the aim of monitoring and translating excerpts from the 100 most important TV channels in the Middle East and Iran, the MEMRI TV Project is the only body in the world - non-profit or governmental - providing subtitled translations.

MEMRI President and Founder, Yigal Carmon, explained, "The redesigned MEMRI TV website is the best of what any journalist and researcher focusing on the Middle East could ask for. Given the extensive breadth of MEMRI TV's archival material, each subject and each channel now has its own web page. Where else could one find an entire webpage of translated interviews of, for example, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Yahya Rahim Safavi [http://memritv.org/subject/en/355.htm] as well as web pages devoted to leading Arab reformists including the former dean of Islamic Law at Qatar University, Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari [http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/154.htm]?" Carmon added, "The technological upgrade of our new website is a overall qualitative leap for the MEMRI TV Project."

Meanwhile, MEMRI Executive Director, Steven Stalinsky, explained that, "the new MEMRITV web site will be housed on high-end servers in a state-of- the-art datacenter that features increased available bandwidth, resulting in a significantly improved end-user experience in navigating the site and viewing MEMRI's extensive video collection."

The channels monitored by MEMRI TV include in: Saudi Arabia: Saudi Channel 1, Saudi Channel 2, Iqra, Al-Majd, Al-Ekhbariya, Ein TV, MBC, Rotana Cinema TV, Al-Risala; Iran: IRINN, Channel 1, Channel 2, Channel 3, Channel 4, Al- 'Alam, Sahar TV, IRIB/Jaam-E-Jam1, IRIB/Jaam-E-Jam2, IRIB/Jaam-E-Jam3, Al- Kawthar TV, Esfahan TV, Kerman TV, Tehran TV, Bushehr TV, Koran Channel, Khorasan TV; Egypt: Dream 2, Mihwar, Channel 1, Al-Nas, Tanweer, Nile Culture TV 5; Lebanon: Al-Manar, LBC, New TV, ANB, Future/Al-Mustaqbal, NBN, Heya, Teleliban, Noursat; Jordan: Jordanian TV; Iraq: Al-Iraqiya, Al-Fayhaa (Iraq/UAE), Al-Baghdadiya, Al-Furat, Salah Al-Din, Anwar, Al-Rafidein (Iraq/Egypt); Europe/ U.S.: Al-Hayat TV (Europe), Islam TV (U.K.), Al-Hurra (U.S.); Al-Mustaqila (U.K.); Qatar: Al-Jazeera, Al-Jazeera Children's Channel, Qatar TV; Palestinian Authority: Palestinian Authority TV, Al-Aqsa TV; Dubai: Al-Arabiya, Dubai TV; Kuwait: Al-Rai TV, Kuwait TV; UAE: UAE TV4, Al-Shariqa, Peace TV (India/UAE); Syria: Syrian TV; Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi TV; Libya: Libya TV; Bahrain: Bahrain TV; Sudan: Sudan TV; Yemen: Yemen TV; Oman: Oman TV; and the Internet.

Since its inception, footage from MEMRI TV has appeared in multiple documentaries as well as on TV channels including: CNN (The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Paula Zahn Now, Anderson Cooper 360); FOX News (Hannity & Colmes, Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox Report with Shepard Smith, Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, Fox News Live); NBC (NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno); CBS (The Evening News); PBS (Now, Frontline); MSNBC (Scarborough Country, Countdown with Keith Olbermann); ABC NEWS; CURRENT TV; COMEDY CENTRAL (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart); HBO (Real Time with Bill Maher); SHOWTIME (documentary) and others.

Internationally, MEMRI TV has been used on the following channels this year: in the U.K. by the BBC, ITN News, and Sky TV; in Italy by RAI; in Germany by ARD TV, Spiegel TV, Cosmo TV, NDR TV, ZDF TV, 3SAT TV, Vox TV, RTL TV, MOZ, and Bayerischer Rundfunk TV; in Spain by El-Mundo TV; in France by Canal-Plus TV and TFJ; in Sweden by TV8; in India by CNN-IBN; in Brazil by SBT TV; in Iran by Al-'Alam TV; in Norway by TV2; in Malaysia by Kelatan TV; in Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Company; in Denmark by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation; in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Company; and by CNN International and many others.

For a free subscription, please email a request to memritv@memri.org

Please visit www.memritv.org. New clips are being added daily.

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Source: MEMRI

CONTACT: Debra Colbert, +1-301-565-5329, daccomm@aol.com, for MEMRI

Web site: http://www.memritv.org/
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http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/154.htm

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