Presenting Middle Eastern Perspectives to a Global Audience

From Tripoli to Jerusalem, from Ankara to Kuwait City, Al-Monitor seeks to introduce a global audience to the Middle East in its own words. Founded in the wake of Arab Spring, the site provides reporting from the diverse, independent media in the Middle East and builds on that reporting with insightful, original commentary and web video. Al-Monitor seeks to create a dialogue between the Middle East and the West via three major components which all build on each other:

1. Each day, our editors--supported by an editorial advisory team that includes some of the world's most respected experts on the region--will carefully select a diverse mix of articles intended to bring insight into the politics, economics and societies of the Middle East not otherwise available in the English language. We have content partnerships with over 14 news organizations in the region, and are in talks to add more.

   Special attention will be paid to ensure our translated material not only is technically accurate, but also conveys the style, tone, and subtleties of the original text. In so doing, it is our intention to faithfully represent the unique knowledge and perspectives of Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew and other regional authors.

2. Al-Monitor regularly commissions and publishes original commentary that is in reaction to news published on our site by regional experts, both from the Middle East and from outside this region. By reacting and further analyzing the news that comes out of a region, it helps to advance the dialogue and foster understanding.
    
3. A web video series features interviews with well-known experts and short segments on key topics that Al-Monitor has focused on whether it be via the translated news that comes out of the region each day or in response to the ideas proposed by Al-Monitor's written contributors.

With events and transitions of profound international significance unfolding throughout the Middle East, the Western media have often lacked access to credible sources on the ground. Often when a story is told by the Western media it is through the Western lens, which can miss key developments. It is the purpose of Al-Monitor to help change this by a providing platform for dialogue that begins with the translated news from the region and continues with our contributors, interviewees as well as those commenting on the Al-Monitor site.