Beehive: Middle East Social Media

Beehive: Middle East Social Media

Beehive is a product of the Doron Halpern Middle East Network Analysis Desk (MENAD),  which studies noteworthy trends on Arab, Turkish, and Iranian social media. Beehive positions these trends within a broader context and provides an up-to-date perspective on issues that are being actively discussed by the people of the region. Advanced tools allow the Center's researchers to focus only on discussions that are significant in terms of their duration as well as the number of participants. Between March 2019 - April 2020 Beehive was published only in Hebrew.

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Raz Zimmt

Iranian Users Protest Trump's Muslim Ban

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Raz Zimmt discusses Iranians’ pointed criticism of the US travel ban on visitors from majority Muslim countries, which prevents Iranians from entering the United States.
Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak

Erdoğan's Referendum ‎

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Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak examines the tumultuous discourse surrounding the Turkish referendum on consolidation of ‎Erdoğan’s political authority.
Gilad Shiloach

Reviving the myth of Saddam Hussein

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Gilad Shiloach examines the proliferation of Saddam Hussein's image as defender of the Arab world, which is magnified by fear of Iranian regional influence.
Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak

The Land of Martyrs

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Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak investigates the radicalization of discourse on Turkish social media, after the terrorist attacks in Istanbul and Kayseri.
Gilad Shiloach

ISIS, social media, and the battle for Mosul

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Gilad Shiloach investigates the duality of ISIS' social media messaging, which alternately posits a climactic battle between the few and the many, or denies altogether that it has suffered severe setbacks.