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Case Studies

What we deliver. In practice.

Real examples across our three formats: deep intelligence briefs, always-on watch rooms, and rapid response analysis. Every piece draws on live Arabic-language corpus data.

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Watch Rooms

Always-on monitoring of a defined set of accounts. Scheduled sweeps, AI briefings, notable-post surfacing, and image-text extraction, published as a living report.

Watch Room · Daily20 August 2026

Gulf Ministries of Foreign Affairs, daily digest

37Posts
7Accounts
12Cited

One 24-hour window across seven Gulf foreign ministries. Qatar condemned the Gaza strikes alongside Egypt and Türkiye, and Kuwait condemned them on its own; the five other ministries that posted that day did not mention them. Every claim links to the source post.

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Watch Room · Monthly22 Jul – 20 Aug 2026

Gulf Ministries of Foreign Affairs, monthly digest

761Posts
30Days
37Cited

Thirty days of the same room, every post analysed. Six of the seven ministries condemned the drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities; the UAE did not post on them. Saudi Arabia signed a joint defense agreement with Türkiye and Pakistan in Makkah.

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Watch Room · Energy22 Jul – 20 Aug 2026

Gulf energy majors, monthly positioning

92Posts
6Companies
31Cited

A different question for a different room. Companies don't answer to each other, so this one reads positioning, not alignment: OPEC challenges the IEA on Gulf reliability while Aramco moves into minerals and Masdar builds offshore wind.

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Watch Room · Media20–21 August 2026

Pan-Arab news channels, daily agenda

1,277Posts
6Channels
16Cited

One news day, six newsrooms, six different front pages. Al Mayadeen led on regional security alliances, with 67 of its 156 posts, Al Jazeera and TRT Arabi led on the Gaza war, and every channel gave Hormuz only a brief mention.

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Watch Room · Media28 August 2026

Pan-Arab news channels: the Hormuz standoff

1,186Posts
6Channels
16Cited

One waterway, six newsrooms, three incompatible claims about who controls it. Al Jazeera carried Trump calling the Strait of Hormuz American territory; Al Arabiya reported a US official saying control of the strait would win a better deal; the IRGC Navy declared it closed to ships that do not coordinate with Iran. Al Arabiya gave the story 61 of its 442 posts, Sky News Arabia 4 of its 82.

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Intelligence Briefs

Deep, one-off analyses: the positions people take, their tone, dialect and narratives, across platforms. Each brief draws on a full corpus.

Image Tracking · YouTube16 February – 1 March 2026

DW Jafar Talk, across 100 videos

3,596Comments
45%Negative tone
19%Positive tone

What a German public broadcaster’s Arabic channel draws in its comments. Across 3,596 comments on 100 videos, 45% of items are negative in tone and 19% positive, and the sharpest are Levantine and Gulf items (57% and 55% negative). Tone is how a comment sounds, not a verdict on the channel: few speak about the channel itself. The argument is about the videos’ subjects: 12% hold that religious practice is a personal choice no state should impose, 7% that public life should follow the religious majority’s rules, and 16% are quarrels between commenters.

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Topic Tracking · TechMarch 2026

Meta’s Metaverse exit, read by Arab tech

56Comments
17%Foolish project
13%Hardware cost

Every comment under ArabHardware’s post on Meta closing Horizon Worlds. Of the 53 comments with text, the most common position (17%) is that the project was foolish or useless; 13% call the loss deserved or wasted money and 13% blame high hardware costs and limited access. A small set: one comment is worth about 1.9 points.

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Topic Tracking · Culture27 August – 1 September 2026

The 63rd Damascus International Fair

2,226Comments
26%Against
18%For

Syria’s return to large-scale cultural programming, read through 2,226 comments under the fair’s and the Ministry of Culture’s posts. 26% hold a position against the fair and 18% one for it. The largest view of the fair is that it is a sign of recovery and joy for Syria (16%); 12% hold that its music is sinful under Islamic law. The most common single position (29%) is a quarrel between commenters that is not about the fair at all. Activity peaked on 30 August.

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Topic Tracking · PoliticsJune – September 2026

The AfD deportation debate, in Arabic

1,617Comments
6%Only AfD can lead
3Months

What Arabic-speaking communities in Germany say about the AfD among themselves. Across 1,617 comments under 18 posts, the largest share (23%) are quarrels between commenters rather than arguments about the topic. On the issue, 7% hold that mass deportation is necessary and 6% that the AfD is the only party able to lead Germany, against 6% who call the party dangerous or racist and 5% who call its deportation promises election propaganda. Support for the AfD ranges from 14% of comments under one community page to 1% under another.

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Topic Tracking · SocietyAugust 2025 – September 2026

The Murshidi festival, in Syrian media comments

12,185Comments
24%Right to celebrate
23%Contempt

Comments under Enab Baladi’s and SyriaNow’s coverage of the Murshidi community’s Eid al-Farah bi-Allah festival. Of 12,185 comments, 24% hold that the community has a right to its beliefs and celebrations, 23% are contempt, insults or defamation toward it, and 21% send greetings to the celebrants. Contempt is 26% of comments under Enab Baladi’s post and 19% under SyriaNow’s.

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Topic Tracking · Society20–25 October 2026

Germany’s 31 October youth protests, in Arabic comments

2,489Comments
45%Against
5%For

What Arabic-speaking commenters said about the youth protests planned in Germany for 31 October, under 15 posts on Facebook and YouTube in the week before. Of 2,489 comments, 45% hold a position against the protests and 5% one for them. The leading reasons are practical and moral: 23% tell foreign residents and refugees to stay away to avoid legal risk and deportation, and 15% say migrants owe Germany gratitude and loyalty. Several of the posts were themselves warnings to stay home.

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Image Tracking · Two platformsSeptember 2025 – March 2026

Thaura AI, received in Arabic

2,595Comments
47%For
16%Against

An Arabic AI chatbot built by two Syrian founders as a privacy-preserving alternative to Big Tech, tracked across Facebook and Instagram. Of the 2,595 audience items read for positions, 47% hold a position for it and 16% one against; the largest single position (28%) is praise with no reason given. The objections are practical: the app is hard to get (7%), flawed in use (4%), or its ethical claims unproven (4%).

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Rapid Response

Event-triggered analysis in the first hours of a breaking story: who is speaking, how the narrative is forming, and where it is heading.

Topic Tracking · 5h window16–17 March 2026

Damascus alcohol restriction, in the first five hours

868Comments
32%For
35%Against

Every comment beneath the Damascus Governorate’s post on its alcohol restriction, in the five hours after it was announced. The split is close: 35% hold a position against the restriction and 32% one for it. The most common position is plain support with no reason (16%); against it, 10% call it an infringement on personal freedoms and 10% a distraction from economic crises. Volume peaked in the second hour.

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Rapid Response · Agriculture31 August – 2 September 2026

Syria’s live-chicken import decision

872Comments
31%For
16%Against

The agriculture ministry allowed live-chicken imports to bring prices down. Of 872 comments under the ministry’s post and Poultry Magazine’s two posts, the most common position (19%) is that the ministry decides erratically and without competence; 31% hold a position for the imports and 16% one against. Disease warnings sit under the magazine’s posts: 38% of comments there, against 2% under the ministry’s.

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