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Israel's war on Gaza

Exclusive: Gaza grandmother shot and killed by Israeli sniper as child waved white flag

Video shows death of Hala Rashid Abd al-Ati as she was leaving Gaza City, with Israeli military besieging the neighbourhood

My neighbourhood was vibrant and beautiful. Israel turned it into a wasteland Gaza war diary: I'm shattered. My only comfort is my cat

Israel's war on Gaza

The truth about October 7: Filmmaker Richard Sanders discusses his Al Jazeera film with Peter Oborne

How the UAE kept the Sudan war raging

Inside Iran's 'war of attrition' on journalists

Turkey Politics

Seven things we learnt from Erdogan's defeat in Turkish local elections

Egypt announces $35bn deal with UAE to buy premium Mediterranean area

UAE firm inks deal to buy a fifth of Zimbabwe's land for carbon credit scheme

Syria's Assad won symbolic victories in China. Will material benefits follow?

Why did Saudi Arabia ban the Palestinian keffiyeh at the Red Sea film festival?

The US and the Middle East

US Elections 2024

Michigan's Arab and Muslim Americans mobilise to show Gaza will cost Biden presidency

Israel's war on Gaza

Why so many young Jewish Americans are anti-Zionist

Israel's war on Gaza

The US dips its toes back into Palestinian politics, but has trouble finding its feet

Navigating hate and death threats: What it's like working for Ilhan Omar

Gaza Under Attack

CNN’s Israel bias has been laid bare. But CNN is the norm, not the exception

Israel's war on Gaza

At US universities, free speech isn't free for pro-Palestine activists

Why the Muslim-American community shies away from talking about suicide

How US militarism is fuelling the climate crisis

Azad Essa

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza

In a West Bank settlement, Israelis tend red cows and plan the Third Temple

Israel's war on Gaza

'I pretended to be dead': Survivors recount harrowing Israeli field executions in Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza

Palestinians are being forced to eat grass - here’s what it does to your body

Israel's war on Gaza

Over 350 humanitarian sites and aid convoys hit in Gaza since 7 October

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel ‘genocide’ case: Read and watch Middle East Eye reporting used as evidence at ICJ

Israel's war on Gaza

A quick history of Christianity in Gaza

Nelson Mandela and Palestine: In his own words

Israel's war on Gaza

Iron bars, electric shocks, dogs and cigarette burns: How Palestinians are tortured in Israeli detention

By Gideon Levy

Israel's war on Gaza

The world cannot stand by and watch this slaughter

Gideon Levy

When will Israel seek forgiveness for its crimes?

Gideon Levy

'Silent transfer': How Israeli settlers are launching a second Nakba

Gideon Levy

Zionists only: The basic flaw of Israel's new protests against judicial power grab

Gideon Levy

Israel's far-right government removes the mask that enabled western complacency

Gideon Levy

Ripping up the evidence: How Israel maintains global impunity

Gideon Levy

Will Israel survive?

Gideon Levy

Russia-Ukraine war

Israelis are in denial at parallels between their occupation and Putin's war

Gideon Levy

The UK and the Middle East

Data on children referred to Prevent could be held for their entire lives

Israel's war on Gaza

What happened to the right to fly Palestine flags in east London?

George Galloway: The Rochdale MP and his Middle East history

Who are the Muslim groups Michael Gove accuses of extremism?

The Jewish women no longer welcome in the Labour Party

The Conservative Party and its cold war against Islam

Gaza children's artwork, removed from London hospital, looks for new home

Pegasus spyware

Digital nightmare: The Arab dissidents ruined by phone hacking

By David Hearst

Iran-Israel tensions

How Iran attacks exposed Israel's weakness

David Hearst

Israel's war on Gaza

For the defenders of Israel's war on Gaza, the game is up

David Hearst

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel is dragging the US into a future regional war

David Hearst

Israel's war on Gaza

War on Gaza: All signs point to a strategic defeat for Israel

David Hearst

Israel's war on Gaza

Op-Ed video: Who is the real threat to British democracy?

David Hearst

Gaza Under Attack

Like Blair and Bush before them, Biden and Starmer will pay a heavy price for backing Israel’s war in Gaza

David Hearst

Israel's war on Gaza

War on Gaza: 100 days on, a regional catastrophe looms

David Hearst

Israel's war on Gaza

Op-Ed video: The Palestinians aren't sub-human

David Hearst

The Middle East explained

Melilla, Ceuta, and the Western Mediterranean migration route explained

What is Sukkot? The Jewish celebration explained

Twenty years on: Edward Said's life and writings, in seven quotes

Israeli judicial crisis

Israel's now abolished 'reasonableness standard' explained

Passover 2023: The Jewish holiday of Pesach, explained

Climate crisis: 15 ways that the Middle East is under threat

What is Ashura and how do Shia and Sunni Muslims observe it?

What is Hanukkah? The Jewish festival of lights explained

Neom

Inside Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia 'scales back' goals of Neom megacity project

Saudi megacity Neom will serve alcohol on beach resort island, says report

Futuristic Neom megacity 'seeking $2.7bn loan'

Arabfuturism: How Arab artists are building the world of tomorrow

Neom: New satellite images show progress of Saudi Arabia's 'The Line'

Neom: International companies ignore questions over human rights risks

Saudi Arabia: Foreign executives chalk up million-dollar salaries at Neom, report says

Neom: Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement

Explained: Why Egypt and Turkey are ending a decade-long rift

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

Blackface and anti-blackness in the Arab world

The Armenian genocide explained

Trojan Horse Affair

The Trojan Horse affair explained: The hoax plot to radicalise Birmingham schools

Sudan's military coup explained

48 Palestinians

Explained: Who are Israel's Palestinian citizens?

Israel's war on Gaza

'Civil War': A brutal indictment of western journalism's disregard for the truth

Hazem Fahmy

What to read

Israel's war on Gaza

Naomi Klein enters the mirror world of conspiracy, colonialism and fascism

Katherine Hearst

Namesake: Reflections on Nusaiba, a warrior woman of early Islam

Making sense of the war on Gaza: Nine reads to help you understand the Palestinian plight

Etaf Rum’s new novel 'Evil Eye' tackles trauma, patriarchy and white feminism

How to be a bad Muslim: Politics, poetry and finding love beyond the labels

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

Orientalism at 45: Why Edward Said's seminal book still matters

Lorenzo Forlani

Good for Nothing: British Muslim author Mariam Ansar on skewing stereotypes

Podcast: The Big Picture

The Big Picture Podcast

The fate of Imran Khan

The Big Picture Podcast

What Ireland's history of resistance says about Palestine

The Big Picture Podcast

How a human rights defender was convicted of terrorism

The Big Picture Podcast

Jeremy Corbyn on the future of Labour and the left

The Big Picture Podcast

What Uyghurs want you to know about China

The Big Picture Podcast

Why we should be worried about AI mass surveillance

The Big Picture Podcast

The forgotten history of Arab-Jews

The Big Picture Podcast

The Ukraine war signalled the end of Western hegemony

Discover

Electronic Jaglara: The ‘cosmic’ dance music rocking rural Sudan

Moon Knight versus Ms Marvel: What lies beyond representation?

Experiencing Ramadan with an eating disorder

Art and photography

Picasso and the Middle East: How Arab art embraced Cubism

Turkey: Three popular dances and the history behind them

32 Middle Eastern recipes you can make at home

The ghostbuster of Jerusalem: Meet the Palestinian man tracking down ghouls and jinn

'Eyes wide shut': Has Egypt's Great Sphinx really closed its eyes?

Meatballs and militancy: How a Swedish king became the bane of the Ottoman Empire

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

How Ertugrul resurrected the Muslim imagination

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

By Peter Oborne

Israel's war on Gaza

War on Gaza: The voices that really matter are the journalists on the ground

Peter Oborne

UK extremism: Michael Gove is turning British Muslims into an enemy within

Peter Oborne

Why I confronted the British consul in Palestine after settlers' deadly rampage

Peter Oborne

Israel's war on Gaza

On Gaza, Sunak's Tories and Starmer's Labour have merged into a single pro-war party

Peter Oborne

Bharat: How Modi's move to rename India could break the link with 1947

Peter Oborne

These ruthless, bigoted Tories would have Enoch Powell smiling from his grave

Peter Oborne

Robin Simcox: A cheerleader for the UK government's own brand of extremism

Peter Oborne

Imran Khan is exactly what the US hates in a Pakistani politician: principled

Peter Oborne

Money

Egypt-UAE investment deal: A rescue package for Sisi's regime

Maged Mandour

Israel's war on Gaza

Why the oil market isn't freaking out about Houthi Red Sea attacks

Turkey-Somalia pact: Who stands to gain?

Ebuzer Demirci

The India-Middle East Corridor: A new Silk Route or diplomacy by PowerPoint?

Why Egypt is seeking new financial allies in the east

Mohammad Salami

Can Tunisia avoid bankruptcy?

Walid Abuhelal

How Mehmet Simsek convinced Erdogan to drop his infamous interest rates policy

Inside Saudi Arabia

'This is going to be disruptive:' Saudi Arabia's new airline will shake up Gulf competition

At the movies

Jonathan Glazer and the need to divest from US film over Gaza

Caspar Salmon

The far-right plot to destroy a French film about police violence

Origin spotlights the 'banality of evil' - and we're seeing it today in Gaza

Myriam François

A car crash Berlinale concludes with a German witch hunt against pro-Palestine filmmakers

The Arab world and Barbie: Why Greta Gerwig's film has provoked anger in the Middle East

Jean-Luc Godard's revolution: Marxism, Palestine and the working classes

Ahmed D Dardir

Harka: Tunisian film depicts the fire and failure of the Arab Spring

Ahmed D Dardir

Rambo in the Negev, a never-seen Iran and a post-apocalyptic Beirut. It must be Rotterdam

'Eyes wide shut': Has Egypt's Great Sphinx really closed its eyes?

How Ertugrul resurrected the Muslim imagination

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

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

Sport

Inside Saudi Arabia

Saudi Pro League: Why the numbers are not adding up

Mostafa Mohamed

'The Grand Prix helps them': 20 years of sportswashing in Bahrain

Tennis giant ATP Tour partners with Saudi Arabia's investment fund

Jordanian-Qatari row unleashed by bad-tempered Asian Cup final

Israeli footballer Sagiv Jehezkel leaves Turkey over 7 October message

When Iran faced Israel in the 1968 Asian Cup final

Ons Jabeur is unlucky once again - but still an icon for Arabs and Africans

Mostafa Mohamed

Old friend of Erdogan falls from grace after punching referee at Turkish match

Award-winning stories

MEE journalist Dania Akkad wins award for reporting on violence against women

After #WhereisNoof, Qatari women question how safe they really are

MEE journalist Mohammed Amin wins Rory Peck Trust's Martin Adler Prize

'We lost our sons': The Darfur village reeling from the Wagner Group's CAR massacre

Peter Oborne wins award for opinion pieces on Boris Johnson leadership

I encouraged Nusrat Ghani to stand as a Tory MP. I wish I hadn't

Peter Oborne

The untold tragedy of Iraq's Shia Turkmen women, abducted by Islamic State

MEE journalist Daniel Hilton wins Amnesty International Media Award for Libya report

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

MEE journalist Maha Hussaini wins Martin Adler Prize

Gaza 2020: 'Our worst nightmare is when it starts raining'

Rashida Tlaib's family disappointed but not surprised by Israeli ban