Whois & Analysis for al-monitor.com

Al-Monitor is a media site launched in February 2012 by the Arab American entrepreneur Jamal Daniel and based in Washington, DC.

Al-Monitor provides reporting and analysis from and about the Middle East through both original and translated content.

The site has media partnerships with major news organizations from countries in the Middle East.

Among its media partners are El Khabar, Al-Masry Al-Youm, Azzaman, Calcalist, Yedioth Ahronoth, Al-Qabas, An-Nahar, As-Safir, Al-Hayat, Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal, Habertürk, Milliyet, Radikal, Sabah, Taraf, Al Khaleej, and Al-Tagheer.

The Gaza Strip ('), or simply Gaza, is a small self-governing Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, that borders Egypt on the southwest for and Israel on the east and north along a border.

Gaza, together with the West Bank, comprise the Palestinian territories claimed by the Palestinians as the State of Palestine.

The territories of Gaza and the West Bank are separated from each other by Israeli territory.

Both fall under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, but Gaza has since June 2007 been governed by Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic organization which came to power in free elections in 2006.

It has been placed under an Israeli and U.S.-led international economic and political boycott from that time onwards.

The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia and Egypt.

The corresponding adjective is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner.

The term has come into wider usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.

In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space (" ") (also called no-break space, non-breakable space (NBSP), hard space, or fixed space) is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position.

In some formats, including HTML, it also prevents consecutive whitespace characters from collapsing into a single space.