THE STORY BEHIND THE HEADLINES

Inside The Middle East | The Primer, a one-hour educational video designed to provide a Western audience with an understanding of the underlying factors that have shaped, shape, and will shape the region, through authentic voices from the Arab and Muslim world that are often absent in Western discourse.

WHAT IS INSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST | THE PRIMER?

An educational video designed to equip a diverse audience with different levels of knowledge with the vital education they need to understand the underlying factors that have shaped, shape, and will shape the region. Through a combination of filming in the field and authentic voices from the Arab and Muslim world that are often absent in Western discourse, we believe this will be an engaging, enlightening, and entertaining journey!

WHEN WILL IT BE RELEASED?
Fall of 2025

WHO IS MAKING THE FILM?

The film is being made by Inside The Middle East, Intelligence Perspectives [ITME], founded by Avi Melamed and Maia Hoffman. ITME is dedicated to providing apolitical, non-partisan, authentic education about the Middle East. ITME offers a range of educational experiences, tools, and resources to organizations, individuals, students, practitioners, and leaders…

DOCUMENTARY SERIES | JERUSALEM

The Seam Line is a five-part documentary series examining the fragile threads that, woven together, create Jerusalem’s Christian, Jewish, and Muslim tapestry – simultaneously connecting and dividing Israelis and Palestinians, religious and secular, sacred and profane.

Living together in this multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-identity city is not always a matter of choice, but often the consequence of history and circumstance. However, alongside the inevitable frictions and tensions, unexpected collaborations, friendships, and partnerships can and do develop.

In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, the Arab-Israeli conflict exploded into the intifada – lethal and violent protests and riots throughout Israel. This was the most chaotic and dangerous period in the history of the modern city of Jerusalem. Avi Melamed, a fourth-generation Jerusalemite Jew, former intelligence official, fluent Arab speaker and Middle East expert, is the host of The Seam Line. As the Advisor on Arab Affairs to two Mayors of Jerusalem during the intifada, his mission was to rebuild relations between the Arab and Jewish communities in Jerusalem. His work put him in the epicenter of this deadly storm.

The Seam Line is not a historical documentary. Rather, it is an invitation to join Avi on a personal journey through the city, from north to south, east to west. It is an unparalleled opportunity to explore the conflict in and over Jerusalem from his unique perspective. Along the way, you will meet Avi’s Arab and Jewish friends who will give you insights and perspectives rarely explored by the Western media…