MEMPSI - Middle East Media and Policy Studies Institute

Russian independent media outlet Zvezda in the city of Perm consistently uses the word “war” in its coverage of the fighting in Ukraine — defying censorship laws that punish such direct language with crippling fines and even criminal…
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The Qur’an-burning incident in Stockholm that threatens Sweden’s bid to join Nato was funded by a far-right journalist with links to Kremlin-backed media, it has emerged. The holy book was set alight last Saturday near Turkey’s embassy…
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BBC Arabic Radio has gone off air since Friday after 85 years of broadcasting as part of a plan to cut costs and focus on digital programming. The corporation said it is cutting hundreds of jobs in its World Service and has been forced…
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World Journalist Fellowship This Fellowship provides support to international journalists who enroll in one of our graduate programs in journalism at the NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. All of our programs are 3 semesters,…
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World Journalist Fellowship This Fellowship provides support to international journalists who enroll in one of our graduate programs in journalism at the NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. All of our programs are 3 semesters,…
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With nuclear agreement imminent -MEMPSI symposium panelists warn of the Iranian danger in the regionDeal will give strategic depth to Khamenei’s proxy armies in Iraq, Syria, and YemenCritical Consensus: Arab states…
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in the second half of this two-part series, Luba Kassova explores the determination and optimism of Ukraine’s women journalists in the deadliest war for reporters. Based on interviews with Nataliya Gumenyuk: a Ukrainian journalist…
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Last week, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford published its annual Digital News Report. Now in its tenth year, the report is essential to make sense of the…
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In one of Turkey’s most closely monitored and widely observed show trials, on April 25th the 13th Istanbul High Criminal Court sentenced businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala to life without parole and seven other defendants to…
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Since Mexico’s first self-described leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), was elected in 2018, journalists have continued to face harassment by politicians and political actors. Today, Mexican journalism is at…
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