Given the rapid spread of anti-American protests we’ve embedded a map of current and planned protests events in the MENA region to help follow the latest:
MENA Protest Map – Click for live view
We’ll also aggregate planned protests and demonstrations that we’re able to identify to help anticipate future security risks [last updated on Monday, September 17 at 10:30am ET]:
Monday, September 17:
- In Islamabad, tonight with Nadeem Malik (Protest against Gustakhana Film) 14th September 2012.
- In Lebanon, Ok, so basically expect protests across #Lebanon in #Hezbollahareas for the rest of the week (minus Tuesday & Thurs).
Tuesday, September 18:
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In Bangkok, Muslim protest planned against US Embassy in Bangkok,Tuesday 18 September 2012 | Thailand Travel Tips http://t.co/iBK6fy2B.In Srinagar, The Kashmir Economic Alliance today called for a complete shutdown on September 18 to protest the blasphemous and anti Islamic video.
Wednesday, September 19:
- In Colombo, “SLTJ has organized a protest against the USA Film “INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS” on 19.09.2012 @1.30pm at our Head Office Colombo”
- In Lahore, Protest in front of American Counselette (near Press Club) inLahore on 19 sept,Wednesday at 12:30 pm.
Thursday, September 20:
- In Karachi, the students of KU, NED, SSUET, IIEE,ACCA and UIT arearranging a protest rally at University Road, NIPA , Karachi at 1 pm onThursday (
September 20, 2012) against the offensive content against Islam.
Friday, September 21:
- In Manama, after gov warned Alwefaq of illegal march in the capital, they launched a new one calling for sept 21 protest in Manama http://t.co/omWMoXHd.
- In Lahore, Karachi, and London, there are calls for protests on September 21.
- In Tripoli, “Calls for mass protests for Syria on 21/9, would be lovely if it was spread so we can show the West a millions march for Syria.”
- In Benghazi, Protests planned outside outside Benghazi’s Tbilisi Hotelagainst extremist attacks, calls for security on 21 Sept.
- In Cairo,
Saturday, September 22:
- In London, protest outside US Embassy 2pm Sunday 22nd September http://t.co/bKiOyuxG.
Sunday, September 23:
- In Morocco, February 20 movement to resume social protests on Sunday, September 23.
Thursday, September 27:
- In Kuala Lumpur, amid raging angry protests worldwide over anti-Islam defamatory film, Malaysia Muslim leaders called on Monday, September 17, for a mass prayer next Thursday.
Archive of predicted protest events:
Saturday, September 15:
- In Yemen, the “hutíes” Shiite separatists have called a march to the square of Al Taguir the U.S. embassy, while the Reform Party, the political arm of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood, organized a large prayer tomorrow at noon tribute to the prophet.
- In Cairo, Muslim Brotherhood leaders have called for a nationwide protest in Cairo tomorrow against an anti-Islamic video posted onYouTube.
- In Tunisia, journalists are planning a general strike on September 15 in protest against increasing attacks on freedom of the press.
- In Islamabad, a JuD spokesperson said his group and the Tehrik-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool would organise a protest in Islamabad tomorrow afternoon.
- In Karachi, THE GRAND PROTEST in Karachi AGAINST DEFAMATORY FILM ON PROPHET MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) Date: September 15, 2012. There are also rumbles of a protest at the US Embassy.
- In Riyadh, people are planning a protest at a McDonalds.
- In Amman, protests are planned at the US Embassy.
Sunday, September 16:
- Pakistan Youth Alliance announce, protest on Sunday 16-Sep-2012 in Lahore in solidarity with victims of sectarianism.
- Silent protest in front of Byblos bank on macnimir street on Sunday at 6 against the attacks on embassies #Sudan.
- In Amsterdam, the U.S. Consulate General in Amsterdam has been informed about two demonstrations planned for the area in protest of the film, “Innocence of Muslims.” Dutch police are aware of these demonstrations which will take place in front of the Consulate General on the Museumplein.
- In Kerala, a protest march in solidarity to the Kudankulam struggle is being organised on 16-09-2012, Sunday from Parassala in Kerala toKudankulam.
- In London, rumored protests on Twitter.
September 14th, 2012 on 6:13 PM
hmmm… seems incomplete data and protests – i believe there are protests as far as Indonesia now…
September 14th, 2012 on 6:20 PM
Appreciate the note, and you’re right that some locations are absent. We’re updating the future ones manually and the map is set for a subset of major cities that we selected from North Africa to Pakistan. Here’s the latest on Indonesia if you’d like to take a look: https://www.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/528JjFiqCN
September 14th, 2012 on 9:45 PM
OKJ, so if I understand this correctly, this is a map of current, known protests plus protests that have been announced or rumored in the news and/or social media. From reading your product information, I was expecting some form of prediction or forecasting — before they are otherwise known — of protests based on the discussion and traffic in social media. Or am i muasunderstanding what you can do?
September 28th, 2012 on 10:32 AM
David – Sorry for the delay in responding. So, you’re absolutely correct about the nature of this post and the capability of Recorded Future to identify, extract, and visualize this data related to protests as they’re reported on the web.
An additional component that’s not really described in this example is the storage all of this data to create a historical record of events in the world that can be used for statistical analysis. The idea being that with a record of past events one could seek out predictive indicators helpful in forecasting protest activity (or many other kinds of events). Examples of such indicators related specifically to protests could be a particular sequence of events or conditions (food shortages, drought, militant activity, geotemporal patterns such as described by this work at UVA), language used in local media and social networks, or actors involved (see this example from FP).
Hope this is helpful!
September 15th, 2012 on 3:28 PM
Good effort. Data is user-friendly and informative. I agree this is short of some data in terms of locations being absent. However, I have followed recorded future for a while now and you guys seem to be getting better with your data . Keep up the good work!