Emirates Media Inc. (EMI) is a multimedia pioneer in the Arab region. Its origins in television, radio and press go back as far as 1969 with the establishment of Al Ittihad Newspaper, UAE Television from Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Radio. It was in 1996 that television and radio were incorporated under Emirates Broadcasting Corporation (EBC). In 1999 EBC was reincorporated as EMI with its television and radio services expanded to include Al Itihad Newspaper, Zahrat Al Khaleej and Majed Magazines.
Emirates Media and Studies Centre is one of the leading independent research and media institutions in Emirates, that aims to work within the national and regional frames, and it relies in achieving its goals, on the efforts of thinkers and intellectuals to play an active role in public and political lives, and the ambitions of wide sectors of Emirati and Gulf youths.