Ma'an Images is a working department under the umbrella of Ma'an News Agency (MNA) www.maannews.net. MNA is an online news agency supplying 24- hour news in Arabic, English and Hebrew for local, regional, and international readers and media professionals. MNA was officially launched on the July 7th, 2005 with a main office in Bethlehem and sub- office in Gaza Strip. The goal of the news agency is to create the first multilingual, independent and professional Palestinian source of information available in Arabic, English and Hebrew.

MNA is a unique initiative funded by both the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, and operating under Ma'an Network of independent Media www.maannet.org.

Ma’an Images objectives are as follows:

1. To offer to the Palestinian and the international community independent and professional Pictures of events that affects the life in the Middle East

2. To promote democracy through media, freedom of expression, freedom of the press and pluralism of the media
3. To increase Palestinian media credibility on the Israeli and international scene by producing objective and professional pictures

Ma'an Images can offer high quality images covering a variety of events in Palestine and the Middle East. These images are available for sale through our photo archive which contains thousands of images and increasing daily. Our photo archive contains images ranging from political, sports, cultural, religious and social events taking place in Palestine (West Bank, Gaza strip) Israel and a number of countries in the region.

Ma'an Images is staffed with trained professionals and well skilled team of photographers who work on- site and are spread throughout Palestine, Israel and the region. Ma'an's photographers are highly qualified photographers who regularly undergo internal quality enhancement trainings organized by Ma'an Network Center of Excellence.

Ma’an Images is successfully working together with several international agencies for the purpose of promoting our images. Agencies such as Reflex News based in New York, Allover Press based in Stockholm and Gran Angular based in Spain use us as their main source for pictures from the region. Other main clients are Associated Press, Reuters and AFP.