Strait of Tiran

October 6, 2020

REVIEWING BBC MIDDLE EAST EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS – PART THREE

Previously (see ‘related articles’ below) we have looked at two videos created by the BBC in 200...

May 16, 2017

Reviewing a BBC News Online Six Day War backgrounder

A BBC backgrounder on the Six Day War promotes the notion that Nasser may not have planned to go to ...

April 3, 2017

BBC’s context-free Strait of Tiran backgrounder appears again

A repeatedly used BBC backgrounder informs audiences that Israel twice captured islands in the Strai...

January 19, 2017

Compromised BBC backgrounder surfaces again

On January 16th the BBC News website published an article titled “Egypt court upholds ruling h...

June 23, 2016

Context missing from BBC News’ backgrounder on Strait of Tiran

On June 21st an article was published on the BBC News website’s Middle East page under the hea...

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 ...