BBC Middle East Editor

November 1, 2019

Weekend long read

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

October 29, 2019

BBC clarifies inaccurate claim by Jeremy Bowen but fails to meet editorial guidelines

BBC editorial guidelines stipulate that errors in on-demand content should at least be flagged up by...

October 15, 2019

BBC’s ME editor says “there haven’t been all that many” terror attacks in Israel

The effect of the BBC’s partial reporting of terror attacks against Israelis. ...

October 2, 2019

BBC’s Middle East editor warns against premature claims yet makes one

Radio 4 listeners hear inaccurate information from the BBC's main gatekeeper of Middle East news. ...

September 29, 2019

Israeli election coverage continues to advance a new narrative

The BBC ignores Arab-Israeli self-identification....

September 24, 2019

Reviewing BBC News website coverage of Israel’s election

Familiar themes were evident in the BBC's election coverage along with some new ones....

August 6, 2019

Half a story time with the BBC’s Middle East editor

In two BBC programmes about Idlib, Jeremy Bowen fails to mention what the UN has called 'forced disp...

June 30, 2019

BBC’s Middle East editor Tweets about ‘attitudes’

Five years ago Bowen observed that Palestinians did not appear in a film about historic Jerusalem. ...

December 14, 2018

Revisiting another of the BBC’s 2018 campaigns

The BBC produced six reports on one topic in less than two weeks....

December 12, 2018

Reviewing a BBC slap to the face of impartial journalism

BBC campaigning in 2018....