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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.

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

The lightening rebel offensive that brought down five decades of the dictatorial rule of the Assad family, was a shock to many.

Israel/ Palestine
One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

One way Zohran Mamdani could arrest Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu

Middle East Monitor

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he would instruct the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel/ Palestine
A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory

Middle East Monitor

What is becoming apparent is that the ceasefire has led to a state of affairs where Israeli forces have been permitted enormous latitude

Israel/ Palestine
The ruptured Mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli Narrative

The ruptured Mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli Narrative

Middle East Monitor

The Israeli narrative traditionally pivoted on moral high ground and strategic restraint. That image is now broken

Arab World
Vanishing Future?  The Arab World Faces 2x Global Heating, Corruption and High Tech Divide

Vanishing Future? The Arab World Faces 2x Global Heating, Corruption and High Tech Divide

Middle East Monitor

Water scarcity threatens to erase 14 per cent of GDP by 2050. Illiteracy and failing education leave millions unprepared for AI revolution

Donald Trump
The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

The UN’s Acquiescence in Trump’s Colonial Plan for Gaza Betrays the Palestinians yet Again

Middle East Monitor

Gaza remains in ruins, Palestinians remain under the boot of an unrestrained occupying power, and Washington still acts as the global custodian

Iran
The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

The Dawn that Never Broke: The Unresolved Israel-Iran War

Middle East Monitor

The twelve-day war between Iran and Israel did not culminate in an Israeli triumph or an Iranian eclipse.

Israel/ Palestine
Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Are Secretive Israeli Front Organizations Trying to Empty out Gaza? Palestinians sent to South Africa

Middle East Monitor

When a chartered flight carrying more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg last week, confusion filled South African airwaves

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza and Sudan: The Rubble and even Blood can be seen by Satellite

Gaza and Sudan: The Rubble and even Blood can be seen by Satellite

Middle East Monitor

The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) has released repeated satellite imagery showing flattened neighbourhoods and rubble

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