About MMD
Minzar for Media & Development (MMD)
An independent institution that works within the framework of media studies, scientific research, and analysis of security issues from the standpoint of security media theories, and aims primarily to study security issues, especially in our Arab and African worlds, and their extension into the Islamic world. This is in all areas related to media, security and development.
Minzar for Media & Development (MMD) represents a promising Arab media project, in which professional media personnel work to fill the Arab media spaces with daily and direct news coverage. It will also work to link the various courses of internal events with their external factors, namely the regional neighboring countries, based on Strengthening the bonds of cooperation between Afro-Arab countries and extending them to Islamic countries. Undoubtedly, achieving the steps of this blessed breakthrough will be centered around leadership in raising important issues that decision-makers and readers of the language of Dyad throughout our Islamic world need to know.
The Message
The MMD is considered the first center with integrated roles in introducing comprehensive security strategies through specialized media outlets, disseminating important information about the Afro-Arab identity and the Islamic world with common goals. It aims to achieve security and opportunities for just peace between Arab and African countries and Islamic peoples, through purposeful education that educates about security necessities, anticipating a just balance, and embodying strategic partnership and cooperation in establishing principles of international peace and security.
Vision
Educating readers of the Arabic language, Islamic peoples, and those who are keen on the stability of the principles of peace with purposeful information that introduces the reality of the requirements of intellectual security and the necessity of adopting peaceful visions without exaggeration or bias. In addition, it contributes to improving the image of a true Muslim, portraying him as nothing more than a good citizen wherever he is.
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Mission
Educating readers of the Arabic language, Islamic peoples, and those who are keen on the stability of the principles of peace with purposeful information that introduces the reality of the requirements of intellectual security and the necessity of adopting peaceful visions without exaggeration or bias. In addition, it contributes to improving the image of a true Muslim, portraying him as nothing more than a good citizen wherever he is.
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Achieving Partnerships
Strengthening joint cooperation between all specialized media publishing houses and strategic centers seeking to extend a helping hand for further concerted efforts aimed at connecting what has been interrupted in terms of activating security and development plans among the Afro-Arab peoples and their extensions in the Islamic world.
Effective awareness-raising: creating a professional awareness-raising discourse that works to provide specialized research centers and knowledge seekers with correct news and true information that will work to create an awareness-raising and cultural basis that will help reduce negative propaganda that works to spread divisive speech, use the weapon of false propaganda, and yellow journalism that divides. And do not collect.
Strategic Pillars
– Strengthening communication between Islamic and Arab (Afro-Arab) peoples.
– Creating balanced media in presenting Arab and Islamic issues
– Introducing the common security foundations that Arab and Islamic countries have.
– Disseminating information aimed at creating an atmosphere of trust and solidarity among Afro-Arab peoples
Intellectual security
-Contributing to security awareness efforts in its various media strategies
– Strengthening the moderate discourse calling for calling for goodness and coming together on what is common.
– Providing a true and balanced security media vision
– Surrounding the negative media and malicious propaganda that help in distancing, not bringing together.
– Avoid media irritation and harmful antagonism between the interests of countries, especially the stability of their national security
Centre's Bodies, Units & Departments
The Legal and Administrative Affairs Authority
There are two units under the Legal and Administrative Affairs Authority
Financial Affairs Unit
The Financial Affairs Unit is responsible for providing financial benefits to the center’s employees. It also documents
transactions between the center and official and popular bodies, and provides support for the center’s programs, including the
legal financial aid it receives that helps the center implement its various awareness-raising activities.
Public Relations Unit
The Public Relations Unit promotes the activities carried out by the Center outside the scope of its research, media, and awareness activities, in addition to concluding memorandums of understanding and receiving correspondence between the Center’s management and partner
media entities .
Security Readings Magazine Unit
This unit is responsible for preparing and printing the Security Readings magazine, and receiving various scientific topics according to
the conditions it set for publishing topics related to security awareness. It is a semi-annual periodical magazine
– that is, it is published twice a year.
Department of Media Translation
This department supervises the copying, printing, and preparation of publication of security reading magazines, and the printing of books that the center prints,
in addition to communicating with publishing houses and printing books. It is worth noting that this department contains linguistic auditors
and specialists in copying and printing books and various topics.
Department of Native Affairs
The Native Affairs Department prepares legal topics that are important for spreading the culture of correct thought and the
middle approach, which mentions everything that enhances the concept of media awareness and consolidates the concepts of comprehensive security strategies.
Security Research Department
This department studies topics related to security awareness, and security and media issues, as it
supplies the media translation and security readings sections with special topics and academic articles that
the department is working to achieve within comprehensive security strategies
Printing and Publishing Department
This department supervises the copying, printing, and preparation of publication of security reading magazines, and the printing of books that the center prints,
in addition to communicating with publishing houses and printing books. It is worth noting that this department contains linguistic auditors
and specialists in copying and printing books and various topics.