MEMRI President and Co-Founder Yigal Carmon says the goal of his organisation is to “bridge the language gap” between the Arab and Muslim world and the West.

MEMRI stands for Middle East Media Research Institute and was founded in 1997.

“We monitor Arab media and the Muslim media and Arabic and Farsi and Turkish and Urdu and the schoolbooks which are most important,” he said.

“We publish it to make people aware of what they don’t know because it is in other languages.

“Ten years ago, we began also publishing and monitoring the Russian media and five years ago, the Chinese media.”