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When we began our effort in Beirut in 2005, reliable translations of the Arab media were generally only available through high-priced services or politically biased ones that provided narrow snapshots of an otherwise rich landscape of news and opinion. eighteen years later, we continue to offer our affordable, curated “Daily Briefing” of translations for our subscribers - a service we believe helps to reduce at least a modest part of the language disconnect impeding understanding, informed engagement and policy.
Further to this end, and after all of these years we have also managed to amass an extensive searchable database with more than 4,000 Daily Briefings and 85,000 individual translations from over 150 separate media sources, all coded according to subject area and country. If you are interested in gaining a deeper insight into the affairs of the wider region, we encourage you to sign up for a two-week free trial Here
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Even if you don’t choose a free Mideastwire.com trial, please take a moment to discover what we believe is a unique and extraordinary public repository of high-quality translations: The Taliban Sources Project (TSP). Through a partnership with Thesigers, the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and the University of Oslo, Mideastwire.com has translated and is now making available 1,452 separate translations drawn from nine years of the Taliban’s Arabic language magazine, Al-Samood (Issues 1-99 / 2006 to 2014), which together constitute the overwhelming bulk of the TSP database.
Unfortunately, the TSP as a whole and our translations of Al-Samood specifically were only made available this year because of what we believe was a fundamental misunderstanding of the project and its implication.
Indeed, several years ago, the British Library, which was supposed to serve as the main repository, judged that the archive contained some material which could contravene the Terrorism Act. Thankfully, the University of Oslo recently stepped up and hosted the project,
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