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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

In south Iraq, political murders are dismissed as 'personal' to quash investigations Iraq: Thousands demand accountability over killing of activists, journalists

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

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

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

Ramadan TV: Seven things we learned from the 2021 shows

Ancient high-rises, prehistoric whales and other incredible sites to see in the Middle East

How Ertugrul resurrected the Muslim imagination

17 new books by Palestinian writers that are worth reading

Wonder Woman 1984: Hollywood is stuck in the past when it comes to the Middle East

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

How Arab films triumphed at the first online Berlinale

How to raise your Palestinian children in the diaspora

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

Memes, jokes and icons: Eight ways Palestinians are resisting the occupation online

‘All my work is Libya’: Five emerging Libyan artists to watch

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

The hidden lives of Arabs in Cuba

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

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

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Gaza Under Attack

Khaled Meshaal says Hamas now leads Palestinian struggle

Israel-Palestine: Nine days that shook the world

David Hearst

How Israel is sowing the seeds of a new uprising

David Hearst

Israel's total victory will be undone on the streets of Jerusalem

David Hearst

The plot against Jordan's King Abdullah

David Hearst

Jordan: Why King Abdullah's troubles are not over

David Hearst

Suez Canal: Sisi is a danger not only to Egypt, but to the world

David Hearst

The Arab yacht summit plotters have fallen out

David Hearst

All the crown prince's men

David Hearst

Palestine State

Palestine elections: A leap into the unknown for Fatah and Hamas

David Hearst

Libya's surprise election is bad news for meddling powers

David Hearst

Saudi Arabia: For Joe Biden, Khashoggi is a litmus test

David Hearst

Democracy triumphs in America. Now the US must support it in the Arab world

David Hearst

Israel must be sanctioned for refusing Covid-19 vaccinations to Palestinians

David Hearst

The dark motives behind Saudi Arabia's push for Gulf unity

David Hearst

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

The Middle East in pictures

In pictures: Blast-hit Beirut hospital battles to rebuild amid second Covid-19 wave

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

Turkey Politics

Hagia Sofia: Muslims flock to historic reopening as mosque

In Pictures: Orthodox Christians in Jerusalem attend Holy Fire ceremony ahead of Orthodox Easter

In pictures: Church of the Holy Sepulchre closed on Easter

In pictures: Syrians find shelter in jails, caves and graves

In pictures: Turning tyres into tables

In pictures: Devastating floods in Iran

In pictures: Turkey's Kurds celebrate Nowruz in Diyarbakir amid hunger strike

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

The Middle East explained

Israel's new government: The faces and parties you need to know

Blackface and anti-blackness in the Arab world

Saudi Arabia's economic crisis, explained in 10 graphics

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

The Armenian genocide explained

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

Palestine State

The Palestinian keffiyeh: All you need to know about its origins

Israel's nuclear weapons: What you need to know

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

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system explained

Sheikh Jarrah explained: The past and present of East Jerusalem neighbourhood

What you need to know about Ever Given, the ship that blocked the Suez Canal

Egypt executions: What you need to know

48 Palestinians

Explained: Who are Israel's Palestinian citizens?

Laylat al-Qadr: The holiest night in Islam explained

Ramadan 2021: Key questions about the holy month answered

Iran elections: Everything you need to know about June presidential vote

Algeria's legislative elections explained in five questions

Palestine State

Why did Israeli forces storm Al-Aqsa?

Silwan explained: How history and religion are exploited to displace Palestinians

Israel-Palestine: What happened this week, explained

What is behind Pakistan's global crusade against Islamophobia?

Arhama Siddiqa

Eid al-Fitr 2021: Everything you need to know about the celebration

Palestine State

Explained: Israel's plans to annex Palestinian land

Eid al-fitr: The Muslim celebration explained

The best YA books: 10 Middle East authors worth reading

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

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

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

By Peter Oborne

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

Peter Oborne

How Britain's Conservatives became unconditional supporters of Israel

Peter Oborne

Al-Aqsa attack: Boris Johnson's silence over Israeli violence is a disgrace

Peter Oborne

Boris Johnson's Tories are not serious about investigating Islamophobia

Peter Oborne

Batley cartoon row: British media are on a mission to provoke a culture war

Peter Oborne

Boris Johnson condemns Myanmar coup, but is silent on genocide

Peter Oborne

BBC Trojan Horse report: Failing to put right shocking falsehoods

Peter Oborne

Shawcross Prevent role is Tories' latest salvo in culture war against Muslims

Peter Oborne

Richard Sharp's donations to Quilliam raise questions about his BBC chairmanship

Peter Oborne

Labour and antisemitism: What’s going on at the Forde inquiry?

Richard Sanders

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

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

The UK and the Middle East

Palestine State

Husam Zomlot speaks: 'For 20, 30 years, it was the two-state solution, negotiations - we are done with that'

FIFA 21-backed Ramadan football league received Home Office support

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

Usaama al-Azami

UK Muslims losing faith in Labour under Starmer, poll finds

British man unlawfully left stateless over travel to Syria returns to UK

Palestine activists occupy UK factory supplying materials for Israeli fighter jets

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

New UK counter-extremism head worked for think tank which hosted Islamophobes

British royals met with autocratic Arab monarchs 'over 200 times' since 2011

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

Labour faces legal challenge over recruitment of former Israeli spy

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

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

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: Birmingham aid worker in Syria stripped of UK citizenship

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

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

REVEALED: UK minister met with BAE Systems weeks after Khashoggi murder to discuss response

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Israeli settler’s attempt to justify forcible takeover of a Palestinian home sparks online anger

Muslim woman targeted by racist tirade in Florida supermarket

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Sheikh Jarrah shooting of Palestinian girl caught on CCTV

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Meet the 90-year old Jewish American woman protesting for Palestine

Trump administration approved UAE arms sale hour before Biden inauguration

Biden at 100 days: Restoring the pre-Trump 'normal' on Israel-Palestine

Cornel West: Palestine is a 'taboo issue among certain circles in high places'

'Til Kingdom Come: How Christian evangelicals fuel chaos in Palestine

Azad Essa

The Capitol Hill riot was not a coup. It was an attempt to preserve white supremacy

Azad Essa

Jerusalem: Biden administration's 'bothsidesism' angers Palestinians

Google search results suggest Palestinian keffiyeh a symbol of terrorism

Palestine State

Norman Finkelstein speaks to MEE about Israel’s latest offensive

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

US Elections 2020

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

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

Ben & Jerry's freezes when it comes to Palestine

The best of 2020

Constant surveillance: Israeli drones over Gaza

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

US police departments under pressure to end training programmes with Israel

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

US Elections 2020

A who's who of Joe Biden's foreign policy team

The heritage of Notre Dame – less European than people think

Diana Darke

UK counter-terror programme targeted BAME women using Instagram influencers

'No humanity': Trump pardons Blackwater war criminals who massacred Iraqis

In pictures: How a Palestinian woman keeps the ancient craft of kohl alive

Middle East Eye's picks of the year 2019