A screenshot shows the homepage of the Middle East News Encyclopedia, a regional news aggregator that compiles reports from around 1,000 media outlets across 15 countries in the Middle East.
‘Middle East News Encyclopedia’ begins testing phase as multilingual regional news aggregator
NEWSROOM – The “Middle East News Encyclopedia” began its testing phase on Saturday, introducing a multilingual news aggregation platform that compiles reports from about 1,000 media outlets across 15 countries in the region, as well as major international sources.
The platform collects roughly 40,000 news items per day from outlets in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, and Egypt. It presents them in a single real-time feed, allowing journalists and readers to follow developments across the Middle East through one interface.
Developed by Mediazan—the company behind 964media, Qarar, and Tube—the encyclopedia is designed to help journalists, researchers, and the public access verified information directly from original sources. The wire service will be a seperate offering that represents the full breadth of the region’s media landscape.
Developers said the project aims “to help journalists in the Middle East and around the world access accurate information directly from its sources and reduce the time between the spread of false rumors and the arrival of verified facts.” They said it seeks to “support fact-checking, reduce misinformation, and give users an overview of interconnected events across the region.”
The platform supports instant translation in five key languages—Arabic, English, Persian, Turkish, and Kurdish—with additional options in Hebrew, French, and German. Users can translate hundreds of headlines at once, allowing them to monitor how stories are covered in different countries and languages.
Search options include country, outlet, and topic filters, along with an archive tool that allows users to review past coverage by date. The project team said the database will continue to expand, adding new sources based on user feedback.
During the trial phase, developers said they will gather feedback “to refine a single, well-designed interface that keeps professionals fully informed of developments across the Middle East as they happen.”