Al-Jazeera

According to German newspaper, Der Spiegel, the CIA has been spying on Al-Jazeera network and successfully infiltrated its internal network of communication. Der Spiegel reported that a document released...

Following the Egyptian authorities' arrest on Sunday of four Cairo-based Al-Jazeera English journalists, the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK (AOHR UK), a non-governmental organisation that promotes human...

By Dr Daud Abdullah, for Al Jazeera English Director of the Middle East Monitor David Miliband, the UK's foreign secretary, has apologised to his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, after...

The leaked documents known now as the "Palestine Papers" have been picked over and analysed extensively by Al Jazeera and the Guardian; at least, most of them have. The...

It goes without saying that almost every news network claims to report truthfully and objectively. The BBC, for example, portrays itself to be " independent, impartial and honest." This...

On Sunday, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi will complete his first year in office. Instead of being an occasion to celebrate – he is the first elected president – many...

Conspiracy theories are quick to circulate in the Arab world. Often, they are just that – theories – but often, they are ultimately proved to be correct. The geopolitical...

With the official death toll continuing to rise and sources within the Muslim Brotherhood estimating that thousands of Egyptians were killed in the massacres at Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda...

I was having lunch when my Egyptian line rang. The caller was Dr Osama al-Ghazali Harb, head of the Democratic Front Party, a member of the National Salvation Front,...

The overwhelming majority of officers who attended the Annual Conference of High Officers in the Israeli army convened recently, are religious Zionists. Former director of the Israeli Defence Forces...

On this year's Land Day, tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in Sakhnin, an Israeli city in the Lower Galilee, to protest against past and present...

The chief Palestinian negotiator appears disconnected from his own people and his wider Arab and Muslim constituency. One of the most shocking revelations of The Palestine Papers obtained by...

Al Jazeera is an enigma – although owned by an absolute monarch, it's hailed as an independent voice in a region scarred by tyranny. Mehdi Hasan visits its headquarters...

Two opposing phenomena are interacting in the Middle East; the first is Israel, moving back to the past with its policies, laws and ideology, looking ever more like a...

We owe the Syrian people an apology for every day that they were slaughtered before our eyes during the past eleven months. The Arab people have let them down...

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century, Islam has been largely absent from political activity in the Muslim world. The decline of the Ottomans...

The issue is not that documents giving details of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were leaked by Al Jazeera and the Guardian. We all had a general...

By Dr. Mohsen Mohammed SalehIs real reform of the Palestinian Authority possible or can reform only ever be a matter of "dancing to the Israeli occupation's tune"? Can the...

The media has played a vital role in the Arab Spring, from social networks to TV stations. It would be foolish to think otherwise, but if the media was...

In the age of the internet, it's impossible to delete anything – as Al Jazeera discovered this week. Last Tuesday, Al Jazeera English published a long comment piece on...

There is no doubt that Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is an extremely hard act to follow. In a region burdened with government inertia, many regard him as...

As the eyes of the world turn to Syria, the Egyptian crisis is continuing. This week, it was announced that deposed president Mohammed Morsi and 14 of his Muslim...

Given the involvement and degree of relative success of the Islamic movements perhaps we should be referring to the "Islamic Spring", not the "Arab" version. It is worth considering...

I've just watched on Al-Jazeera Arabic with interest, amusement and amazement the first part of a new documentary called "The Price of Oslo" produced by Al-Jazeera Programmes Department as...

The families of the 21 girls from Alexandria who oppose the military coup received the news that 14 of the girls were sentenced to 11 years in prison and...