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The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is a not for profit press monitoring and analysis organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C. MEMRI publishes and distributes free English language translations of Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, and Turkish media reports.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MEMRI homepage )〕 The institute was co-founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli-born American political scientist. MEMRI states that its goal is to "bridge the language gap between the Middle East and the West".〔 Critics charge that it aims to portray the Arab and Muslim world in a negative light, through the production and dissemination of inaccurate translations and by selectively translating views of extremists while deemphasizing or ignoring mainstream opinions. ==Staff== Based in Washington, DC with branch offices in Jerusalem, Berlin, London, Rome, Shanghai, Baghdad, and Tokyo, MEMRI was founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon and Meyrav Wurmser. Wurmser, who later left MEMRI in 2001, is an Israeli-born American scholar of the Arab world. She is also a Senior Fellow at the US think tank, the Hudson Institute, who participated in a study that led to the report, ''A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm'', a paper prepared for Likud party leader and then-incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. MEMRI's founding staff of seven included three who had formerly served in military intelligence in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).〔Brian Whitaker, (Selective Memri ), ''Guardian Unlimited'', Monday August 12, 2002〕 MEMRI president and founder Yigal Carmon states that MEMRI's current staff includes "people of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths () hold a range of political views".〔(Email debate: Yigal Carmon and Brian Whitaker ) at ''Guardian Unlimited'', January 28, 2003〕 * Yigal Carmon – MEMRI's founder and President. Carmon is fluent in Arabic. He served as Colonel in the Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel) from 1968 to 1988. He was Acting Head of Civil Administration in the West Bank and the adviser on Arab affairs to the civil administration from 1977 to 1982. He advised Prime Ministers Shamir and Rabin on countering Palestinian militants from 1988 to 1993. In 1991 and 1992 Carmon was a senior member of the Israeli delegation at peace negotiations with Syria in Madrid and Washington.〔(One on One with Yigal Carmon: If MEMRI serves... ) ''The Jerusalem Post'', Nov. 16, 2006〕 *Alberto M. Fernandez - Vice President of MEMRI since June 2015. Ambassador Fernandez is a fluent Arabic speaker and was a career foreign service officer with the US Department of State from 1983 to 2015, serving mostly in the Middle East and Africa. * Steven Stalinsky – Executive Director of MEMRI. Stalinsky holds a M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and a B.A. in Religious Studies. Stalinsky writes articles on the Middle East for National Review and the New York Sun. * Nimrod Raphaeli – Senior Analyst and editor of MEMRI's Economic Blog. An Iraqi-born U.S. citizen, Raphaeli has a Ph.D. in development planning from the University of Michigan.〔 * Menahem Milson – Board of Advisors chairman. Milson has been a professor of Arabic literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1963, and is currently the head of its Arabic-Hebrew Dictionary project.〔(''Initiative for Applied Education Research'' ), Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities〕〔Lesley Pearl, (''Ex-West Bank `mayor' in Berkeley visit, says Jews must study Arab culture'' ), Jewish news weekly of Northern California, November 24, 1995〕 In November 1981, Milson was the first head of the "civil administration" that Israel imposed on the occupied territories to replace the purely military administration that had been there since 1967.〔(Growing Doubts at Home ) Time Magazine, May 17, 1982〕 * Tufail Ahmad – South Asia Studies Project Director. A British journalist of Indian origin, Ahmad studied Social Systems for an M.A. at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and received an M.A. in War Studies from King's College London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tufailahmad.com/ )〕 * Mansour Al-Hadj – Director of MEMRI's "Reform in The Arab and Muslim World project". A Saudi Arabian journalist.〔 * Mirza A. B. Baig – Senior Analyst at MEMRI's South Asia Studies Project. He is an Indian researcher who studied at the Jamia Millia Islamia for two master's degrees and obtained an MPhil in comparative literature and a PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.memri.org/about-memri.html/ )〕 The MEMRI Board of directors is made up of Oliver "Buck" Revell, Robert R. Reilly, Jeffrey Kaufman, Reid Morden, Steve Emerson and Michael Mukasey. MEMRI's board of advisors includes Ehud Barak, Jose Maria Aznar, Norman Podhoretz, Elie Wiesel, John Bolton, Nathan Sharansky, Hassen Chalghoumi, Faraj Sarkohi, Mort Zuckerman, Khaleel Mohammed, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Khaled Fouad Allam, Bernard Lewis, William Bennett, Anne Speckhard, Chin Ho Lee, John Ashcroft, Jana Hybaskova and Magdi Khalil.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Middle East Media Research Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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