Posted by Dan Ewert : 4/02/2002 12:26:00 AM (Archive Link)
Found a new site for my bookmarks: the Middle East Media Research Institute. This group translates articles and news items from Middle Eastern newspapers, magazines... media in general... into English. Some of it is quite interesting. Since Americans tend to not get very much first hand exposure to the oh-so-important and worried about "Arab Street," this is a good resource. You can read about such interesting things (read: stunning falsehoods) as how Jews use human blood to prepare holiday pastries for Purim and how Ben Franklin publicly denounced Jews during the Constiutional Convention. Nevermind that the "quote" attributed to him sounds like the anti-Semetic remarks from a Taliban pamphlet. The site is non-partisan, though. If you want to know more about it, just go to the "About Us" section from the main page.