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Sport

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

Ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix, former F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone tells MEE how the motorsport came to the Middle East, as activists highlight abuses
Media
The Tories are coming for the BBC
Diplomacy
'Screwdriver': The secret British plan to abandon Bosnia as Srebrenica fell
Antisemitism
From Balfour to Johnson: How hypocrisy and skulduggery define British policy on Palestine
Politics
Uighur activists: Stuck between Chinese persecution and US imperialism
Arab Spring
'We can't speak': 10 years on, Bahrain's democracy movement has been crushed
Media
Caliphate: How the New York Times' Islamic State scoop unravelled
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
Arab Spring
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