Middle East Eye

Middle East Eye is a news website that talks about the Middle East and North Africa and related content from beyond the region.

Type	Online
Editor-in-chief	David Hearst[1]
Founded	April 2014; 10 years ago (April 2014)
Headquarters	1 Sussex Place, London, England, United Kingdom[2]
Website	middleeasteye.net

Middle East Eye was launched in London in April 2014.^[3] The ownership of channel is not known. Its editor-in-chief is David Hearst who was a foreign lead writer for The Guardian until November 2013.^[4]

Controversies

The website is accused by governments of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain of supporting the political campaign of the Muslim Brotherhood by creating biased news that supported the Muslim Brotherhood.^[5] The UAE,^[6] and Saudi Arabia permanently blocked the website for unknown reasons and Egypt temporarily blocked the website during protests spanning from September to October 2019.^[7]

References

1. "David Hearst". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019.
2. "About – Coverage". Middle Easy Eye. Archived from the original on 11 June 2019.
3. "Middle East Eye". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
4. "David Hearst | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
5. Mayhew, Freddy (29 June 2017). "UK-based Middle East news outlet also targeted for closure in Saudi-led demands against Qatar". Press Gazette. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
6. "UAE government blocks access to Middle East Eye". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 2019-06-20.
7. "BBC Arabic website blocked in Egypt". BBC Monitoring. Archived from the original on 2019-10-30.