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

The Caliphate podcast has revealed again that the paper needs to confront unpleasant truths about how it handles stories at the nexus of Islam, the Middle East and terrorism
Inside Turkey
Adnan Oktar: The rise and fall of a Turkish sex cult leader
Policing
‘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
Arab Spring
The power of soil: How our precarious climate shaped the Arab Spring
Politics
Labour antisemitism: Why it has become impossible to criticise Israel
Opinion
Warning to all tyrants: The Arab Spring lives on
Occupation
The truth behind Israeli propaganda on the 'expulsion' of Arab Jews 
Islamophobia
The silence of a coward: Why I no longer play the 'good Muslim'
Economy
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
Occupation
Israel's Orr Commission: A colonial tool to maintain Palestinian division
Libya Crisis
Russian mercenaries in Libya: 'They sprayed us with bullets'
US Elections 2020
Joe Biden, Emgage and the muzzling of Muslim America
Libya Crisis
'Leave no men': The killing fields of Libya's Tarhuna
Antisemitism
How the Labour Party pursued complaints against ‘the wrong sort of Jew’
Hezbollah
Narcoterrorism: Venezuela, Hezbollah and a cocaine invasion
Inside Iraq
'Go to Tehran': The inside story of how the US was sidelined in Iraq
Film
How I fell in and out of love with Middle East cinema
Covid-19
Coronavirus in the Bronx: Why the poor never stood a chance
Islamophobia
The open wounds of Christchurch
Media
‘Religious operations’: How British propagandists used Islam to wage cultural Cold War
Africa
Can South Sudan's men of war lead the country to peace?