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Middle East Monitor

Middle East Monitor is a not-for-profit press monitoring organization, founded on 1 July 2009, and based in London. Journalists who have written for it include Amelia Smith, Diana Alghoul, Ben White, Jehan Alfarra and Jessica Purkiss. The editorial line straddles the British left and the British Muslim religious Right.

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The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection

The Epstein Files: Blackmail and the Tantalizing Israeli Connection

Middle East Monitor

DOJ’s investigators know the scale of the scandal, that this was not just about abuse, but leverage. Epstein collected secrets

Israel/ Palestine
Harari deconstructs the Israeli Narrative from within

Harari deconstructs the Israeli Narrative from within

Middle East Monitor

Harari dismantles the Israeli narrative from within, stripping it of the historical sanctity long used to justify force

Israel/ Palestine
Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arab-Islamic Culture in late Ottoman and British Palestine

Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arab-Islamic Culture in late Ottoman and British Palestine

Middle East Monitor

The Jerusalemite writer of Iraqi descent, Isaac Yahuda, was a part of both the Zionist and Arab intelligentsia

Israel/ Palestine
Is Netanyahu the Trojan Horse in Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza?

Is Netanyahu the Trojan Horse in Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza?

Middle East Monitor

the invitation arrived only months after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu

Israel/ Palestine
Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

Trump’s Gaza Board and the Return of Colonialism

Middle East Monitor

The theoretical foundation of any “Board of Peace” is rooted in what theorist Frantz Fanon identified as the colonial “civilising mission.”

Arab World
The Gulf’s Cold War: Saudi-UAE Rivalry spills into Africa

The Gulf’s Cold War: Saudi-UAE Rivalry spills into Africa

Middle East Monitor

The Saudi Air Force conducted a rare and pointed strike on the Yemeni port of Mukalla

Arab World
The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

The Middle East between an American Oil Past and a Chinese Solar Future

Middle East Monitor

Solar parks in the Gulf, wind farms along the North African coastline, and ambitious hydrogen strategies all signal modernisation

Iraq
Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

Will the Iraqi militias truly disarm? Will the US Troops Really Leave?

Middle East Monitor

The leaders of five significant armed groups claimed that they had adopted the idea of “the state’s monopoly on the use of force

Hayat Tahrir
Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

Middle East Monitor

  By Usman Butt X: TheUsmanButt ( Middle East Monitor ) – Ahmed Al-Sharaa has been in power in Syria for nearly 1-year. The lightening rebel offensive that brought down five decades of the dictatorial rule of the Assad family, was a shock to many. In Al-Sharaa, Syrian’s were greeted with a new kind of […]

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