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David Hearst

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David Hearst is editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He was chief foreign leader writer of The Guardian, former Associate Foreign Editor, European Editor, Moscow Bureau Chief, European Correspondent, and Ireland Correspondent. He joined The Guardian from The Scotsman, where he was education correspondent.

 

Items by David Hearst

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    Tony Blair and the Gulf Neocons

    A year on from the coup that brought Egypt’s encounter with democracy to a premature end, the country is locked into a state of crisis. The prisons are full. Egypt’s social fabric is being ripped apart, and the rents go right through into the family home. Fathers refuse to talk…

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    Israel has Egypt over a barrel

    It took the CIA 60 years to admit its involvement in the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadeq, Iran’s first democratically elected prime minister. The circumstances around the overthrow of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, may not take as long to come to light, regardless who is behind it. Mossadeq…

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    Rapprochement in the Gulf: who blinked first?

    So who won the diplomatic war of words that threatened to fragment the Gulf Cooperation Council, and make a nonsense of its name? Did the Saudis step back from the brink, or did Qatar back down? Who blinked first? In language which was creatively vague, the GCC agreed to adopt…