The Real Israel
Israel is the most politically contentious, internationally contested, and yet extraordinary region in the world. Spending only a week there, I realised just how skewed the Western media portrayal of…
Middle East
We Will Remember Them: How World War One Shaped the Modern World
The 11th November 1918 saw the end of the ‘Great War’. An estimated 15-19 million people had been killed, a further 23 million military personnel had been wounded, and 8…
Saudi Arabia, Freedom of Speech, and Durham
Wajd Beshara explores the link between the murder of Khashoggi and the detainment of Matthew Hedges in an insightful new series on the Middle East.