Sykes-Picot Agreement

October 24, 2017

BBC Radio Wales on the Balfour Declaration – part one

Myths, inaccuracies and omissions in a BBC Radio Wales 'religious affairs' programme....

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 20, 2016

Weekend long read

On May 16th an article by the BBC’s Beirut-based correspondent Jim Muir appeared in the ‘...

May 20, 2016

BBC Monitoring uses Sykes-Picot anniversary to promote conspiracy theory

The 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement this week produced a rash of journalistic comment...

June 9, 2015

BBC WS radio promotes Avi Shlaim’s historical misrepresentations – part one

Visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page on June 1st were presented with an article...

December 17, 2013

One for Middle East watchers on BBC Radio 4

Readers may have noticed an article which appeared a few days ago in the ‘Features & Analy...

July 5, 2013

BBC gets one of its facts on “Palestine” right

A guest post by Geary BBC Radio 4 hosts an – often excellent – programme entitled “Analysi...