Al Rasd maps events across the Muslim world, in near-real time, from sources we monitor continuously and check against each other.
A live map with an event feed and long-form analysis. Every event carries the sources it came from and a confidence level that says how sure we are.
The map has two shapes on it, and the difference is the whole idea. A round disc is an **event** — something that happened, at an hour, on a day; it comes off the map when its day ends in Mecca and goes into the record under that date. A square tile is a **site** — something that stands: a base, an airfield, a camp, a crossing. A site has no expiry, and a ledger of every time its state changed.
Wire services, national and regional outlets in Arabic and English, public Telegram channels, official statements, and material sent to us directly. Everything ingested is archived with the text as it stood when we read it, so a source that later edits or deletes a claim does not quietly edit the record.
Software reads these sources and drafts each event from them. The people running the site decide what it may publish on its own, before anyone has read it, and they check and correct what it publishes. A side the software named that nobody here has checked yet shows a question mark instead of a flag.
Journalists, researchers, humanitarian planners, and readers who want the picture without the noise. All of it is free to read, and there is nothing to sign up for.
If we have something wrong, tell us. Corrections are made against the record, with the original kept — the original is never quietly overwritten.