Middle East Eye: News, Opinion, and Analysis | Middle East Eye

A massacre and a cover-up: How Baghdad protesters gunned down by Iraqi forces faced 'inevitable death'

Dozens protesting in the Iraqi capital were shot dead on 4 October 2019. Official accounts blame an unknown sniper. But an MEE investigation has now uncovered the real story of what happened

EXCLUSIVE: Iraqi soldiers killed dozens in attack on 2019 Baghdad protest In south Iraq, political murders are dismissed as 'personal' to quash investigations

‘I really love my country’: Who was UAE activist Alaa al-Siddiq?

Ebrahim Raisi: The new Iranian president who always follows orders

A prayer for Lydd: Maps and memories that the Nakba could never erase

In pictures: Iran's Afghan Michelangelo

Notices appear on Iranian news websites claiming they were seized by US

Congress urged to question Egypt intel chief over Khashoggi murder

French spy-tech firms accused of 'complicity in torture' in Libya and Egypt

UAE 'forcibly disappeared' and deported several Pakistani Shia men

48 Palestinians

Israel's Kaminitz Law: Can Mansour Abbas save Palestinian homes from demolition?

US seeks to extradite Turkish businessman in Austria over fraud charges

US military delegation to visit Turkey to discuss Kabul airport

Israeli forces injure more than 20 Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah

Video

Palestine State

Palestinian ambassador to UK Husam Zomlot speaks to MEE

Gaza Under Attack

Explained: Israel's contradictory messages on Gaza

Gaza Under Attack

Khaled Meshaal says Hamas now leads Palestinian struggle

Egyptian Tiktok stars jailed for ‘human trafficking’

‘Like a war zone’: Intense night of Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah

Four Egyptians killed and 26 injured when train collided with bus carrying factory workers in Helwan, Egypt

‘I really love my country’: Who was UAE activist Alaa al-Siddiq?

Who is Ebrahim Raisi? The first Iranian president, sanctioned by the US

Egyptian Architect Mamdouh Hamza speaks to MEE

‘Racist murder’: Anger in Spain after Moroccan immigrant killed in cafe

Artists under occupation

Yemeni fisherman hit jackpot after finding million-dollar-worth ‘whale vomit’

‘I wish I could hug you’: Palestinian families meet across Jordan River in emotional moment

Israeli settlers celebrate burning of Palestinian boy during ‘Flag March’

Israel normalisation deals

UAE-Bahrain-Egypt delegation visits illegal Israeli settlement

Egypt's Sisi invites Qatar’s emir to visit Cairo at the ‘earliest opportunity’

Egypt upholds death sentence for senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders

48 Palestinians

From Jaffa to Gaza: 86-year-old Ebtihaj Dola recounts being forced to flee Jaffa in 1948.

The Israeli ‘Flag March’ explained

Israeli Elections

Netanyahu vows to return to power as Israelis celebrate

‘Unbearable’: Ilhan Omar hits back at renewed abuse and bipartisan attacks

Palestine State

Israeli forces kill three Palestinians, including two officers, during overnight raid in Jenin

Hajja Nafisa: The story of a special bond with al-Aqsa Mosque

‘Sea snot’: Turkey’s Erdogan vows to save country’s shores from marine mucilage outbreak

Opinion

Syria war: Inside the world of HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani

A prayer for Lydd: Maps and memories that the Nakba could never erase

Islamophobia: Four years after Finsbury Park attack, Canada deaths show threat undiminished

Mohamed Kozbar

Israel-Palestine: Offering 'concern' solves nothing. It's time for a new approach

Crispin Blunt

Egypt: Sisi's Muslim Brotherhood calculations

Mohamad Elmasry

Ed Husain's Among the Mosques: Fanning the flames of Islamophobia

Usaama al-Azami

How France mainstreamed the far right

Myriam François

On antisemitism and Islamophobia, Labour and Tories are judged by different standards

Peter Oborne

Iran elections: Could a conservative president solve Tehran's regional and nuclear issues?

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Israel normalisation deals

Morocco: The 'deal of the century' and the misfortunes of Mohammed VI

Aziz Chahir

48 Palestinians

Israeli gun owners are licensed by the state to kill Palestinians

Rela Mazali

The UAE is not retreating from military adventures, merely entrenching

Andreas Krieg

Israel-Palestine: The natural order of occupation is coming to an end

David Hearst

The 'good Arab': An Israeli invention to control Palestinians

Muneeb Tarabeyh

My teenage nephew was beaten by Israeli forces - sadly, this is not an isolated case

Nadia Naser Najjab

Israeli Elections

Netanyahu's legacy of hate defines his long goodbye

Richard Silverstein

Gaza Under Attack

Gaza: Will my son take his first breath during war?

Mohammed Rafik

Israeli Elections

Israel: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

Richard Silverstein

Children of Islamic State committed no crime. Why are they being punished?

Kenda Hawasli

How Germany's remembrance culture ignores Israeli war crimes

Matt Unicomb

Israel's biggest fear is the Palestinian masses gathering

MEE contributor

Israel and its western allies have run out of Palestinian enforcers

Joseph Massad

Canada truck attack: The deadly cost of endemic Islamophobia

Faisal Kutty

Palestine solidarity requires challenging the flawed logic of Zionism

Omar Zahzah

Israel Palestine explained

Discover

How Beirut's bookshops kept love of literature alive during war, boom and bust

Poets, fighters and dreamers: Kurdish women tell their own stories

One Ahwazi man’s mission to preserve Arab cultural identity in Iran

Film review: The moral Catch-22 of Oslo’s neutrality

Five video games set in the Middle East you need to know about

How to raise your Palestinian children in the diaspora

Istanbul's Alfred Heilbronn Botanical Garden and its contested history

'Hot Maroc': Yassin Adnan's satirical debut novel plots the death of Moroccan politics

17 new books by Palestinian writers that are worth reading

Middle East art on show at new space as London emerges from lockdown

Review: Readings in Syrian Prison Literature

Israel-Palestine: 11 books to read on the history of the conflict

How the world’s oldest masks tell a story of Palestinian dispossession

In pictures: Life in Palestine from 1890 to 1937

Ramadan TV: Seven things we learned from the 2021 shows

Al-Aqsa: Six times Israel attacked worshippers at the sacred site

'Epic Iran' exhibition launches in London despite sanctions setbacks

Louis Vuitton under fire for 'disgusting' $700 keffiyeh

Tokyo drift: How a growing number of Muslims are making Japan their home

Palestine State

In pictures: Seven things you should know about Sheikh Jarrah's history

In pictures: The Great Mosque of Algiers

Yildiz Camii: Istanbul's last sultanic mosque

Fear and loathing in Gaza: Tales of a life under siege

How to make lentil soup: The perfect dish to warm your soul

Muqarnas: Honeycomb architecture that touches the heavens

Six Days in Fallujah: Another shooter game that refuses to question US militarism?

In pictures: Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr

The Critical Case of a Man Called K: Saudi author's debut tackles illness and transformation

How Ertugrul resurrected the Muslim imagination

The Mother Goddess, Amazons and other female legends in Anatolian history

Midnight in Cairo: The glitz, glamour and grit of Egypt’s leading ladies

Craving Palestine: Cherished recipes of a centuries-old cuisine

The Big Story

A massacre and a cover-up: How Baghdad protesters gunned down by Iraqi forces faced 'inevitable death'

A prayer for Lydd: Maps and memories that the Nakba could never erase

Syria war: Inside the world of HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani

Gaza Under Attack

Israel-Gaza: Was the latest assault a tipping point in the Palestinian struggle?

Lewis Hamilton and the battle for Formula One's place in the Gulf

The Tories are coming for the BBC

'Screwdriver': The secret British plan to abandon Bosnia as Srebrenica fell

From Balfour to Johnson: How hypocrisy and skulduggery define British policy on Palestine

Uighur activists: Stuck between Chinese persecution and US imperialism

'We can't speak': 10 years on, Bahrain's democracy movement has been crushed

Caliphate: How the New York Times' Islamic State scoop unravelled

Adnan Oktar: The rise and fall of a Turkish sex cult leader

‘An honorary Muslim’: The police spy who monitored London's mosques in plain sight

Qassem Soleimani

Soleimani's shadow: How the general's death upended Iranian strategy in Iraq

The power of soil: How our precarious climate shaped the Arab Spring

Labour antisemitism: Why it has become impossible to criticise Israel

Warning to all tyrants: The Arab Spring lives on

The truth behind Israeli propaganda on the 'expulsion' of Arab Jews

The silence of a coward: Why I no longer play the 'good Muslim'

Turkey's lira: The story of an epic downfall

US Elections 2020

Donald Trump in the Middle East: A story of big winners and bigger losers

Israel's Orr Commission: A colonial tool to maintain Palestinian division

Russian mercenaries in Libya: 'They sprayed us with bullets'

US Elections 2020

Joe Biden, Emgage and the muzzling of Muslim America

In Case You Missed It

Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict

Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict raises spectre of 'pan-Turkism' in Iran

'Leave no men': The killing fields of Libya's Tarhuna

Art and photography

Iranian gangsters: Tattoos, drug deals and a hidden underworld revealed

Lewis Hamilton and the battle for Formula One's place in the Gulf

How to go vegan and stay vegan in the Middle East

How the Labour Party pursued complaints against ‘the wrong sort of Jew’

Haftar and the PR firm: Ex-UK diplomat was involved in plan to improve Libya warlord's image

Eight Arab hand gestures that should be turned into emojis

Boris Johnson is running out of time

Peter Oborne

Saudi Arabia's economic crisis, explained in 10 graphics

Coronavirus is changing how American Muslims hold funerals

Saudi purge: Why Mohammed bin Salman can never rest

David Hearst

Noam Chomsky's advice to Palestine advocates: Vote Biden, keep pressure on

Jews, money and antisemitism: How the hate myth was born

Plague and poetry: How Middle East authors have written about disease

Teaching Arabic to kids: How families are putting the fun back into reading

Editors' Picks: The Best Of 2020

Protests, a pandemic and Palestinian mothers: Middle East Eye's picks of 2020

'Leave no men': The killing fields of Libya's Tarhuna

Books and bombs: How I healed myself through fiction

'We will starve to death': War-torn Yemen faces aid cuts and spreading pandemic

Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict

EXCLUSIVE: Azerbaijan, Armenia 'near ceasefire deal' on Nagorno-Karabakh

Beirut explosion: My heart is breaking, but there's no time to mourn

Melissa Ajamian

The open wounds of Christchurch

EXCLUSIVE: Saudis launched oil price war after 'MBS shouting match with Putin'

How Ertugrul resurrected the Muslim imagination

Art and photography

In pictures: The hidden lives of the Amazigh people

'He was no angel': The rallying cry of the lynching bee

Yannick Giovanni Marshall

Beirut explosion

Syrian refugees feel double the loss after Beirut port explosion

Qassem Soleimani

Tracked, targeted, killed: Qassem Soleimani's final hours

Turkey's Mount Ida: The frontline between mining giants and local people

'We live on hope': The mothers Palestinian prisoners left behind

EXCLUSIVE: Top Saudi intelligence official 'chased' to Canada by MBS