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June 16, 2023

BBC WS ME editor misleads on Egypt-Israel border

Previously we discussed two BBC News website reports about the June 3rd incident near Israel’s bor...

February 27, 2020

BBC News tells readers of Sadat’s “victory in the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict”

A BBC article including portrayals of chapters in Middle East history promotes inaccuracies and omis...

July 21, 2019

Do BBC audiences get the ‘range and depth of analysis’ promised?

Simplistic and unquestioning BBC promotion of old paradigms. ...

March 29, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading. ...

January 6, 2019

Background again absent in BBC’s Sinai terrorism story

The BBC again passes up the opportunity to provide audiences with essential background....

July 7, 2017

BBC WS history programme dumbs down the story of a border dispute

A BBC WS history programme fails to tell the whole history of the Taba border dispute. ...

April 17, 2016

The missing chapter in the BBC’s coverage of the Red Sea islands story

The BBC’s coverage of the Egyptian move to hand over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir ...

March 10, 2013

BBC blames torture of African migrants in Sinai on Egypt-Israel peace treaty

An article entitled “Sinai torture for Eritreans kidnapped by traffickers” by Mike Thoms...