Red Sea

October 19, 2025

Superficial BBC report on death of Houthi chief of staff

On October 16th the BBC News website published a report by David Gritten under the headline “Yemen...

July 25, 2025

Weekend long read

1) At the Atlantic Council, Fatima Abo Alasrar discusses ‘Iran, China, Russia, and the collapse of...

December 8, 2023

Weekend long read

1) Writing at Quillette, Prof Gerald Steinberg discusses one of the BBC’s most quoted and promoted...

June 29, 2018

Weekend long read

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

June 29, 2014

Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent slammed for misleading Tweet about Iranian arms shipment

Last night the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Peter Beaumont tweeted an article from Haar...