BBC Middle East Editor

March 21, 2021

Reviewing a decade of BBC reporting on Syria

A decade of BBC reporting on the civil war in Syria has produced some memorable moments such as the ...

November 24, 2020

BBC Radio 4 coverage of US Secretary of State visit – part two

In part one of this post we discussed a pre-emptive report by the BBC Jerusalem bureau’s Yolande ...

November 13, 2020

BBC’s ME editor promotes ‘apartheid’ trope in Erekat eulogy

Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Six O’Clock News’ on November 10th heard a report on the death e...

September 22, 2020

Reviewing BBC Radio 4’s framing of the Abraham Accords

Previously we looked at BBC World Service radio’s insertion of the topic of human rights in Bahrai...

September 17, 2020

Jeremy Bowen’s recommended reading on the Abraham Accords

On September 15th the BBC News website published an article on its ‘Middle East’ page in which M...

August 13, 2020

BBC ME editor offers an evasive ‘guide through the maze’

In the wake of last week’s disaster in Beirut, on August 10th the BBC’s Middle East editor offer...

August 5, 2020

BBC ME editor shoehorns Israel into coverage of Beirut disaster

BBC coverage of the explosion in Beirut on the afternoon of August 4th has of course seen contributi...

August 4, 2020

The BBC, the Oslo Accords and the two-state solution

Since the publication of the US administration’s ‘Peace to Prosperity’ proposal in January, va...

July 29, 2020

BBC ME editor promotes speculations in border incident news report

A security incident which took place on the afternoon of July 27th at Har Dov in northern Israel was...

July 9, 2020

Reviewing the impartiality of BBC radio coverage of potential application of civil law to parts of Area C

The BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartiality state: “Due impartiality usually involves more ...