BBC Middle East Editor

June 2, 2017

Weekend long read

Our Friday round up of Middle East related background reading....

May 29, 2017

BBC ME editor recycles his ‘Israeli Right killed the peace process’ theory

The BBC's ME editor purports to tell R4 listeners why the peace process died. ...

May 26, 2017

Weekend long read

1) As noted here earlier, in an article published on the BBC News website on May 23rd the BBC’...

May 26, 2017

BBC’s ME editor advances his own partisan narrative in summing up of Trump visit

Jeremy Bowen advances his own narrative in a summary of the US president's visit to Israel. ...

May 25, 2017

BBC ME editor’s ‘impartiality’ on view in Jerusalem

BBC's Middle East editor sends a Jerusalem Day Tweet....

May 23, 2017

Trump visit coverage on BBC Radio 4 promotes unchallenged inaccuracies

A PA representative promotes unchallenged inaccuracies on BBC R4's Today programme....

May 22, 2017

A predictable view of Jerusalem from the BBC’s ‘Man in the Middle East’

On May 18th listeners to BBC Radio 4 heard the fourth part in Jeremy Bowen’s series of program...

May 21, 2017

BBC’s Bowen on CAMERA complaint result: still ‘indignant’ after all these years

In a Radio Times interview, the BBC's ME editor claims that an old BBC Trust ruling against him was ...

May 17, 2017

BBC’s ME Editor misrepresents the Hussein-McMahon correspondence

The BBC's Middle East editor gives an inaccurate portrayal of the Hussein-McMahon correspondence. ...

May 16, 2017

BBC Radio 4 launches a new ME series by Jeremy Bowen

A series of 25 programmes by the BBC's Middle East editor launches on Radio 4. ...