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

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Arab Spring 2.0: Five lessons from 2011 for today's protesters

Labour antisemitism: Why it has become impossible to criticise Israel

REVEALED: The true story behind Kataeb Hezbollah and Kadhimi's conflict

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

The last oil men standing: What does renewable energy mean for the Middle East?

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

EXCLUSIVE: Asaib Ahl al-Haq defying Iran to attack US in Iraq

EXCLUSIVE: Saudi crown prince was reluctant to back US attack on Iran

US and the Middle East

EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar calls for end to American sponsorship of police brutality

US Elections 2020

Whatever the US election outcome, white supremacy has won, activists say

US Elections 2020

Joe Biden, Emgage and the muzzling of Muslim America

Second coronavirus wave wreaks havoc in Black and brown America

US Elections 2020

Joe Biden's plan for Arab Americans: Six takeaways

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EXCLUSIVE: Biden aides apologise privately over attack on Linda Sarsour

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Five problems with Michelle Obama's speech no one is likely to talk about

Israel normalisation deals

EXCLUSIVE: Mohammed bin Salman pulls out of US 'handshake' with Netanyahu

What does justice for Jamal Khashoggi look like?

The trouble with Ramy: How the award-winning TV show has failed Arab Americans

Trump's Israel-Palestine plan

REVEALED: Trump's 'deal of the century' map for a future Palestine, Israel

Coronavirus is changing how American Muslims hold funerals

US Elections 2020

Why Israel and centrist Democrats want to see the back of Ilhan Omar

Cornel West: Black Lives Matter and the fight against US empire are one and the same

Coronavirus in the Bronx: Why the poor never stood a chance

Ben & Jerry's freezes when it comes to Palestine

Discover

How Ertugrul resurrected the Muslim imagination

Art and photography

MEE photo competition 2020: Winner and runners-up announced

This Christmas, here are seven things Palestinian Christians need you to know

How to make Omani shuwa | Dine & Discover

Let's play: Learning Arabic, one Lego brick at a time

Art and photography

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

Eight Arab hand gestures that should be turned into emojis

Venice film festival defies the pandemic but Middle East movies disappoint

Ancient boardgames: Experts find the missing piece (but can't figure out how to play)

Voices of a lost homeland: The poetry of Western Sahara

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

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

How a movie star (and my mother) made me a feminist

Politics and poetry: The female Muslim wordsmith making waves

Ten bizarre Egyptian sayings to try and wrap your head around

Beyond the burkini: How there's more to modest swimwear than meets the eye

Stereotypes and suicide vests: The 'Messiah' is a travesty of Biblical proportions

The hidden lives of Arabs in Cuba

Arabic and AI: Why voice-activated tech struggles in the Middle East

Extreme metal in Iraq: Why bands are raging against the machine

Climate crisis: 13 ways the Middle East is under threat

Who reached America first – Columbus or the Phoenicians?

Palestine in 2048: Staring into a black mirror

Breaking taboos: Can Lebanon be honest about sexual health?

32 Middle Eastern recipes you can make at home

Yes, Saudi women dress like... this

Arabic poetry: 10 writers, classic and modern, you need to read

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

By David Hearst

Biden inherits a troubled Middle East. He must move to reduce tensions

Marco Carnelos

Emmanuel Macron's cynical crusade

David Hearst

US Elections 2020

For Trump's Middle East allies, Joe Biden is a new nightmare

David Hearst

US elections 2020: Why Palestinians are not joining the party

David Hearst

Suspension of Corbyn will define Starmer as Iraq defined Blair

David Hearst

US Elections 2020

Trump's Middle East triumphs will soon turn to disaster

David Hearst

Antisemitism report: By suspending Corbyn, Starmer is tearing Labour apart

Richard Sanders

Bandar bin Sultan, prince of chaos, strikes again

David Hearst

Ismail Haniyeh interview: Full transcript

Egypt is the big loser in Israel's deals with Gulf

David Hearst

A new message resounds in the Arab world: Get Ankara

David Hearst

Saudi purge: Why Mohammed bin Salman can never rest

David Hearst

Israel normalisation deals

UAE-Israel deal: The new hegemons of the Middle East

David Hearst

Saudi Human Rights

The Saudi who won't lie down and die

David Hearst

How Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam became Egypt's Nakba

David Hearst

Mohammed bin Zayed's alliance with Israel is doomed

David Hearst

Saudi Arabia: How one fateful night set in motion a series of brutal purges

David Hearst

Israel's annexation plan is the Nakba revisited

David Hearst

Erdogan and Putin: The end of the affair

David Hearst

Denial, fear and dictatorship: Egypt's coronavirus disaster

David Hearst

Saudi Arabia: What happens when the oil stops

David Hearst

Saudi Arabia: How one fateful night set in motion a series of brutal purges

David Hearst

Coronavirus in Gaza: Just 40 ICU beds for two million people under siege

David Hearst

Suez to Prevent: Britain's propaganda is still misreading the Middle East

David Hearst

The UK and the Middle East

EXCLUSIVE: UK government probing cyber-attack over Syria propaganda leaks

Saudi Human Rights

EXCLUSIVE: Sadiq Khan reverses decision to take part in Saudi G20 mayors summit

EXCLUSIVE: UK health ministry has no records on Turkish PPE fiasco and won't say if files destroyed

EXCLUSIVE: Corbyn questions impartiality of EHRC antisemitism inquiry

British propaganda efforts in Syria may have broken UK law

REVEALED: The British government’s covert propaganda campaign in Syria

'This Is Woke': The media outfit that's actually a UK counter-terror programme

REVEALED: How a British-backed media operation tried to turn Alawites against Assad

UK propaganda unit has secret plans to target French Muslims

REVEALED: The secret UK government blueprints shaping post-terror planning

Twitter executive for Middle East is British Army 'psyops' soldier

EXCLUSIVE: UK experts working on post-terror attack planning for Gulf states

EXCLUSIVE: Birmingham aid worker in Syria stripped of UK citizenship

EXCLUSIVE: UK spy agencies knew source of false Iraq war intelligence was tortured

EXCLUSIVE: British aid worker was blackmailed by Islamic State over gun photos

EXCLUSIVE: British army permitted shooting of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Middle East in pictures

Art and photography

In pictures: The life and works of Algerian photographer Kays Djilali

In pictures: Milky Way shines above ruins of Syria's war

In pictures: Animal baby boom at Palestinian zoo closed by coronavirus

In pictures: The women driving protests across the Arab world

In pictures: A day in the life of a Tehran hospital fighting coronavirus

In pictures: Mecca's Grand Mosque emptied amid coronavirus fears

In pictures: The forgotten youth of Libya's oil-rich city

In pictures: Coronavirus and the Middle East

In pictures: Historic synagogue reopens in Egypt after $4m restoration

In pictures: The innocents of a Syrian refugee camp

Lebanon Protests

In pictures: Lebanon protests resurge as economy collapses

Art and photography

In pictures: What if Palestine had its own currency?

Art and photography

In pictures: The Turkish taxi driver capturing raw life in Istanbul

In pictures: Jordan's underwater war museum

In pictures: Egypt’s female photographers stage a revolution

In pictures: It's crab season in Gaza

Art and photography

In pictures: Artists against the arms trade

In pictures: The ultra-Orthodox Jews who back Palestine

In pictures: Yazidis celebrate New Year at ancient temple

In pictures: How Iran's mosques have shaped its cities

In pictures: Muslims attend prayers on the Night of Power

In pictures: How I built my luxury home, by India’s Gulf migrants

In pictures: The barbed wire fences that scar refugees and Europe

Art and photography

In pictures: Uncovering the art from Syria's war

In pictures: The children who have defined Syria's eight-year war

In pictures: Boy king Tutankhamun revealed to the public again

In pictures: Iran and the masks of the Minab market

In pictures: The not-so-rich kids of Tehran

The Middle East explained

Saudi Arabia's economic crisis, explained in 10 graphics

Blackface and anti-blackness in the Arab world

Palestine State

Explained: Israel's plans to annex Palestinian land

Eid al-fitr: The Muslim celebration explained

How to plan an Arab-American wedding that will please everyone (except you)

The best YA books: 10 Middle East authors worth reading

Arabic poetry: 10 writers, classic and modern, you need to read

War, riots, torture: The luxury hotels that shaped the Middle East

Ramadan: 10 tips for healthy eating during holy month

Qatar World Cup 2022: Five things you need to know about football's next big event

Ramadan: 13 questions you have about Muslims' holy month - answered

What is the Nakba? Day of catastrophe for Palestinians, explained

The Gaza crisis, explained in eight graphics

After the Nakba: What if Wales had been offered to the Jews as a homeland?

Kamel Hawwash

The Balfour Declaration dissected: 67 words that changed the world

Labour's anti-Semitism row, how it started and what it means

100 years in 100 seconds: Centenary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palestine, Israel and the Oslo Accords: What you need to know

Iran crisis: How attacks on US embassies have shaped America’s future

Climate crisis: 13 ways the Middle East is under threat

By Peter Oborne

Tory party's praise of Macron's ugly politics is shocking

Peter Oborne

Tory Islamophobia: The trouble with Michael Fabricant

Peter Oborne

How Brexit and Biden fuelled chaos inside Downing Street

Peter Oborne

Freedom of speech in France extends to Macron's critics as well

Peter Oborne

Trojan Horse, Prevent, Islamophobia: How the EHRC failed British Muslims

Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict

Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire greeted with anger and disbelief in Armenia

US Elections 2020

US elections 2020: How Boris Johnson could follow Donald Trump out of office

Peter Oborne

UAE police chief would be a disastrous choice to lead Interpol

Peter Oborne

Keir Starmer is not a leader of courage - but he may soon lead the UK

Peter Oborne

Boris Johnson's Tories have become a right-wing sect

Peter Oborne

US Elections 2020

Trump's debate failure against Biden is a savage blow to MBS, Putin and Johnson

Peter Oborne

Boris Johnson is running out of time

Peter Oborne

Nick Clegg should directly address Facebook's role in spreading Islamophobia

Peter Oborne

Coronavirus in Gaza: 'We are nowhere near the peak'

Peter Oborne

Srebrenica, 25 years on: How genocide denial is adding to survivors' pain

UK sanctions against Saudi Arabia and Myanmar are an exercise in saving face

Peter Oborne

The death of truth: Boris Johnson joins the ranks of Putin, Sisi and MBS

Peter Oborne

Boris Johnson is the inheritor of Enoch Powell's racist legacy

Peter Oborne

Tory Islamophobia: The UK equality watchdog is letting the party off the hook

Peter Oborne

Keir Starmer has every chance to become a future British prime minister

Peter Oborne

Sudan in Transition

Is Sudan turning a page on its troubled history?

Peter Oborne

Tory Islamophobia: The UK equality watchdog is letting the party off the hook

Peter Oborne

The West has found a new enemy: China replaces Islam

Peter Oborne

UK coronavirus crisis: Boris Johnson cannot afford more errors

Peter Oborne

As coronavirus death toll mounts in Iran, Britain must push US to halt sanctions

Peter Oborne

Anti-Muslim bigotry tarnishes the legacy of Sir Roger Scruton

Peter Oborne

Will Boris Johnson become Donald Trump's apologist for war with Iran?

Peter Oborne

The Bishop of Truro has not told the full truth about Christians in the Middle East

Peter Oborne

In defence of Jeremy Corbyn's brave and lonely stand on calls for war against Iran

Peter Oborne

UK Brexit crisis: The next few weeks could shape Britain for decades to come

Peter Oborne

Aung San Suu Kyi in Hungary: A chilling sign of global Islamophobia

Peter Oborne

Where do the Conservative Party candidates stand on Islamophobia?

The dangerous philosophy of Sir Roger Scruton

Peter Oborne

Palestine State

The attacks on a great Palestinian charity by UK Lawyers For Israel must end

Peter Oborne

EXCLUSIVE: Campaigners against Uighur oppression blacklisted on terrorism database

A Michael Gove premiership would be another blow for British Muslims

Peter Oborne

Why Israel's double standard on anti-semitism is dangerous

Marco Carnelos

Tory party Islamophobia: Theresa May must act now

Peter Oborne

Jeremy Corbyn and the truth about Tom Bower's book

Peter Oborne

Britain needs a full inquiry into the poison of Islamophobia inside the Conservative Party

Peter Oborne

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