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Past articles by Mustafa:

London hospital removed Gaza children's artwork following legal action threat

'Crossing Borders' was an art project designed by Palestinian students from Gaza and transferred onto plates by local schoolchildren → Read More

Russia-Ukraine war: Seven ways it shaped the Middle East and North Africa

The conflict between Kyiv and Moscow has seen food shortages, booming energy markets, governments selling arms, and geo-political alignments shift → Read More

BBC Arabic radio goes off air after 85 years of broadcasting

The first foreign language radio of the British Empire Service, set up to counter the German and Italian propaganda, began its life in 1938 → Read More

Syria to rename dilapidated stadium in Damascus in honour of Pele

Syrian forces used the Abbasiyyin Stadium as a car park for military vehicles and a training ground for fighters → Read More

'St George is Palestinian': Meet England's 'free Palestine' fan

Martin Near, who shouted 'Filisteen hora' during an Arabic TV interview, tells MEE he hopes he has started a trend → Read More

Egyptian authorities arrest scores of people calling for cost of living protests at Cop27

Since October, at least 118 Egyptians have been arrested at make-shift checkpoints or taken from their homes → Read More

Middle East turns arms exporter as combat drones take flight in Europe

Turkey's Bayraktar TB-2 and Iran's Shahed-136 are cheap, effective weapons reshaping conflict as we know it → Read More

Lebanon: French writers withdraw from literary festival following Israel controversy

Activists accuse event organisers of hosting Zionism supporters and failing to invite pro-Palestine Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux → Read More

Exclusive: UK officials considered need for Israel embassy in Jerusalem 'inevitable'

Palestinians say MEE's discovery of UK-held land earmarked for decades as an embassy site exposes a 'colonial injustice' → Read More

Lebanese banks close indefinitely as branches stormed by angry depositors

Lebanon's banks have voted to shut their doors following a spate of incursions by depositors cut off from their cash → Read More

Lebanese MP's bank stunt draws criticism from desperate citizens

Desperate depositors who opted to storm banks, some armed, had blamed politicians and officials for the economic crisis that led to this point → Read More

Lebanon: Ex-ambassador among depositors who held up four banks for frozen funds

Clients who stormed banks included a retired police officer, a former diplomat, electricity employees, and a debtor → Read More

Saudi Arabia deports several Egyptian political dissidents to face trial in Cairo

Son of Ayman Shohoum tells MEE his teacher father was handed over by Saudi authorities on 20 September → Read More

No, Queen Elizabeth was not related to the Prophet Muhammad

A historian tells Middle East Eye that allegations about the queen's family tree are 'suppositions and guesswork' → Read More

Egypt's new presidential jumbo jet set to cost $500m

Egyptian MP says plane actually costs no more than $240m, as purchase branded unjustifiable in a time of economic turmoil → Read More

Egypt: National mood 'at risk' with country running out of tea

The country's biggest tea importing company warns that Egyptians would not find tea in supermarkets in less than a month as it has no foreign cash to pay for imports → Read More

Egypt: Police arrest seven people protesting home demolitions in strategic Nile island

Authorities have earmarked more than 2,000 homes in Warraq Island for demolition to pave the way for Manhattan-style residential towers → Read More

Lebanon: Armed man takes hostages in bank demanding his frozen deposits

An armed man has held up a branch of Lebanon's Federal Bank in west Beirut's Hamra Street and taken several people hostage. Lebanese media reported that the gunman fired three warning shots and is carrying incendiary material, threatening to set the bank on fire. The Lebanese channel Al-Jadeed TV reported that the man is Sheikh Hussien, 42. Middle East Eye could not independently verify these… → Read More

Egypt: Woman stabbed to death by fellow student in 'revenge' attack

Salma Bahgat, a 20-year-old media student, was stabbed 17 times in the latest case of femicide in Egypt → Read More

Egyptians to be charged prohibitive entry fee to Nile's corniche walkway

Ahl Masr Walkway was opened to the public in March and Egypt's prime minister said it would be free of charge → Read More