We tell impactful stories across multiple media
powerfully, and with integrity.
Perim Media began in in 2011 as Perim Associates, LLC, a Middle East-focused law & economics consultancy. For ten years, we helped some of the world's most prestigious law firms understand the background to complex political and cross-border disputes. While we enjoyed the work, we felt this wasn't enough. We wanted to tell stories for bigger audiences, about issues that were important to us. We expanded our content offering to include climate and health-related events design.
Perim had its first major events success conceiving, selling, and then building one of the first major events focused on climate change in the Red Sea and East Africa.
The 2015 Environmental Risk & Opportunity (ERO) Summit, hosted by the President of the Republic of Djibouti in partnership with Yale University and the World Bank, attracted 60 Ministers of Environment and Health from 14 countries in the region, Europe, and the Gulf, and was attended by several of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists. US Secretary of State John Kerry called it a "major step forward in environmental policy coordination."
Since then, Perim has helped design content and recruited speakers for high profile events and seminars all over the world. We have helped build lasting relationships between investment funds, universities, medical centers, research laboratories, and NGOs across thousands of miles.
Our communications clients have included environmental tech startups, major corporations, renewable energy companies, non-governmental organizations, & government ministries.
We have run research projects and helped write speeches for politicians and executives -- including a then-future US President, Senators, Parliamentarians, Heads of State, and CEOs of multinational companies.
After a Covid hiatus, we reconvened in 2021 to focus on what we do best, creating high-quality, persuasive content that encourages understanding and innovation in the areas we care about most: environment, healthcare, and human development.
"Perim" (Mayyun, in Arabic) is a small but strategic island near the lower entrance to the Red Sea, between Arabia and Africa. We chose the name because it represents the innate connectivity of the Middle East and Africa.
Our logo is a stylized representation of Dracaena Cinnibari -- more commonly known as the Dragon's Blood Tree, for its bright red sap, prized by ancient Near Eastern civilizations for its medicinal properties -- and used more recently as an ingredient in the reddish dye that gives Stradivarius violins their unique warm color.
Cinnibari is endemic to the island of Socotra, which is located between Yemen and Somalia. It is threatened by climate change, which is altering the mists the tree relies upon to propagate its seeds. This beautiful tree is an apt and powerful symbol for sustainability, and the interdependence between humans and nature.
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We mine your assets and history to tell a story about value -- and values: Where you come from, why you exist, the value you and your organization brings to the world, its community, and its employees. Why people should pay attention to what you’re doing.
We create conference concepts and speaking pools and activities that attract audiences, generate loyalty, and leave something valuable behind.
We work with exceptionally talented partners in all media to translate your story into multiple forms, from digital content, to documentaries, and books that jump off the table.
We help law firms and mediators understand the political, social and economic background to Middle East and Africa related matters. We have provided lead expert testimony ourselves, and identified the top experts in many highly specialized fields.
We work with senior executives to create narratives that inspire and direct people to action -- mainly on climate, investment, and humanitarian issues, but other issues as well. We have written speeches and briefs for Presidents, Ministers, CEOs, and NGO directors, and many others whose work (nearly) defies description.
We use our global networks to match ideas and conferences with unique, interesting, passionate speakers whose insights your audiences will remember for years.
We are creatives, who particularly love working on storyboards and treatments for spoken media that inspire people to individual and collective action.
We often start with 360-degree interviews with stakeholders to understand internal and external perceptions of the organization’s vision and purpose.
We then sift through the organization’s past and present for narrative elements that are potentially undervalued -- or not used at all.
With powerful narratives in place, we help clients translate their stories to their most effective media -- whether print, social, documentary, podcast, etc.
The most effective storytelling is backed up by compelling evidence. We collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify clients’ most meaningful environmental and social impact, and areas of improvement over time. That information supports ESG-related reporting, and is integrated back into the central narrative.
We look for discrete projects or achievements that encapsulate an organization’s identity, values, and impact. If suitable ("accessible") projects do not exist, we help create them. We work with the client to define creative and achievable demonstrations of technology, strategy, etc; we bring in value-adding partnerships, and coordinate execution to attract notice from target demographics.
We often start with 360-degree interviews with stakeholders to understand internal and external perceptions of the organization’s vision and purpose.
We then sift through the organization’s past and present for narrative elements that are potentially undervalued -- or not used at all.
With powerful narratives in place, we help clients translate their stories to their most effective media -- whether print, social, documentary, podcast, etc.
The most effective storytelling is backed up by compelling evidence. We collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify clients’ most meaningful environmental and social impact, and areas of improvement over time. That information supports ESG-related reporting, and is integrated back into the central narrative.
We look for discrete projects or achievements that encapsulate an organization’s identity, values, and impact. If suitable ("accessible") projects do not exist, we help create them. We work with the client to define creative and achievable demonstrations of technology, strategy, etc; we bring in value-adding partnerships, and coordinate execution to attract notice from target demographics.
We often start with 360-degree interviews with stakeholders to understand internal and external perceptions of the organization’s vision and purpose.
We then sift through the organization’s past and present for narrative elements that are potentially undervalued -- or not used at all.
With powerful narratives in place, we help clients translate their stories to their most effective media -- whether print, social, documentary, podcast, etc.
The most effective storytelling is backed up by compelling evidence. We collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify clients’ most meaningful environmental and social impact, and areas of improvement over time. That information supports ESG-related reporting, and is integrated back into the central narrative.
We look for discrete projects or achievements that encapsulate an organization’s identity, values, and impact. If suitable ("accessible") projects do not exist, we help create them. We work with the client to define creative and achievable demonstrations of technology, strategy, etc; we bring in value-adding partnerships, and coordinate execution to attract notice from target demographics.
We often start with 360-degree interviews with stakeholders to understand internal and external perceptions of the organization’s vision and purpose.
We then sift through the organization’s past and present for narrative elements that are potentially undervalued -- or not used at all.
Meet The Team
Dr. Ethan D. Chorin
Founder & Director
Sherif Dhaimish
Director, Creative
Ambassador Dinkar Srivastava
Director of Energy & Economic Transitions
Aya Burweila
Director, Design & Partnerships
Dr. Blair Fowlkes-Childs
Director, Cultural Heritage
Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn
Director, Government Affairs
Dr. Cole Bunzel
Sr. Associate, Legal Practice
R'riyon Draine
Summer Associate
Eric Ellman
Director, Science & Climate Media
Michael Brill, Ph.D. Cand.
Director, Middle East Research
Dr. Sercan Canbolat
Director, Middle East and Turkish Affairs
Dr. Aaron Rock-Singer
Director, Legal Affairs
Col. Wolfgang Pusztai
Director, Geopolitical Risk & Strategy
Omar A. Benhalim
Director, Legal + Business Logistics
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