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TitleOrganisationDate
'I'm presented as a criminal': the banker forced to flee Russia
Guardian14 February 2020
Bloomberg's Arabic news network contract gives it strict controls
Guardian09 October 2018
Guest Writer: The Saudi purge looks like an own goal by Mohammad Bin Salman
middleeastmonitor.com02 March 2018
Saudi Arabia: new details of dissident princes' abductions emerge
Guardian15 August 2017
Al-Jazeera, insurgent TV station that divides the Arab world, faces closure
Observer02 July 2017
Saudi Royal Family Is Still Spending in an Age of Austerity
New York Times27 December 2016
Saudi army major detained after claims of 'Hajj pilgrimage drug ring' run by senior regime officials
Telegraph04 July 2016
Saudi prince returned from Europe against his will, say staff
Guardian29 March 2016
Recession, retrenchment, revolution? Impact of low crude prices on oil powers
Guardian30 December 2015
Saudi royal and minister sought over alleged kidnap of reformist prince
Middle East Eye10 December 2015
Saudi Arabian divorced women and widows to get greater legal powers
Guardian02 December 2015
Saudi Arabia: Eight of King Salman's 11 surviving brothers want to oust him
Independent24 October 2015
No more new cars or furniture, says Saudi king
Guardian08 October 2015
Saudi royal calls for regime change in Riyadh
Guardian28 September 2015
Hajj pilgrimage: more than 700 dead in crush near Mecca
Guardian24 September 2015
Mecca crane collapse shows dangers of city's construction boom
Guardian13 September 2015
Senior Saudi prince accuses cousin over alleged drugging and abduction
Guardian17 July 2015
Why is Egypt's government targeting Al-Jazeera?
BBC website30 December 2013
Egypt army in major push to eradicate Sinai militants
BBC website13 September 2013
What now for the Muslim Brotherhood?
BBC website20 August 2013
Killing of Morsi supporters raises spectre of all-out conflict
Telegraph27 July 2013
Egypt crisis: why coup against the Muslim Brotherhood may not be the end for political Islam
Telegraph04 July 2013
Balloon crash survivor heading home
Daily Express28 February 2013
Expert seeks to quiz balloon Briton
Daily Express28 February 2013
Cries of balloon survivor as wife was swept away
Daily Express28 February 2013
19 die in balloon fireball
Daily Express27 February 2013
Why has Al Jazeera set its sights on U.S.?
CNN04 January 2013
Qatari poet appeals over life prison sentence
BBC website29 November 2012
Saudi Arabia's Princess Sara claims asylum in the UK
Daily Telegraph08 July 2012
Egypt reaches its elections climax
BBC Website14 June 2012
Gulf poetry show fights Middle East zeitgeist
BBC Website28 February 2012
The Cotton Kings and the Carpet Pharoah
Latitude News02 December 2011
Women behind the Wheel: Protest in Saudi Arabia
CMEC website06 October 2011
Al-Jazeera boss steps down : strains with Qatar royals?
BBC website01 October 2011
Waddah Khanfar resignation
Comment is Free - Guardian website22 September 2011
Siege of the Cairo embassy
Daily Telegraph11 September 2011
Data and the Arab Spring
YouGov@Cambridge University02 August 2011
How Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi seduced the West
BBC Website04 March 2011
Revolution in the Arab World
Foreign Policy24 February 2011
Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya
London Review of Books16 February 2011
The Party’s Over
Sunday Telegraph 12 February 2011
The Al Jazeera Effect
Foreign Policy08 February 2011
Middle East Analysis
Sunday Telegraph29 January 2011
Interview with New Europe
New Europe27 January 2011
History shows that where Egypt goes, other countries will follow
Sunday Telegraph21 January 2011
Qadhafi’s Left Arm
London Review of Books13 January 2011
Violence in a nation facing change;
Sunday Telegraph02 January 2011
Alexandria Atrocity will add to Egypt’s instability
Sunday Telegraph01 January 2011
Arms to Israel
London Review of Books16 August 2010
No Strategic Sense
London Review of Books04 August 2010
Champagne Socialism
London Review of Books20 July 2010
Wells you cant kill
London Review of Books24 June 2010
We say hello to one another
London Review of Books12 June 2010
Pomp and Pantomime
London Review of Books13 May 2010
Stranded in Egypt
London Review of Books27 April 2010
Who’s Next in Libya?
London Review of Books09 February 2010
The Missing Prince
London Review of Books19 January 2010
Apologising to the Colonel
London Review of Books13 November 2009
The Case Continues
London Review of Books 24 September 2009
Quid pro Quo
London Review of Books17 August 2009
China beams into the Gulf
The National01 August 2009
The Cost of Letters
London Review of Books29 July 2009
Our man at the lectern shakes off Straw shackle
Daily Telegraph21 May 2009
Keys to the Kingdom: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Royal Family
Independent on Sunday29 March 2009
Expats leaving Dubai
EMEA Finance magazine03 March 2009
The Perfect Sandstorm
EMEA Finance magazine21 February 2009
Lockerbie: was it Iran?
Independent on Sunday21 December 2008
Russia uses big wheat yield as a foreign policy tool
Daily Telegraph27 September 2008
Cairo: My Kind of Town
Telegraph18 August 2008
Mediterranean coast without the hordes
The Australian Financial Review20 June 2008
Classical Libya
New Statesman29 May 2008
Up Front
Irish Times05 May 2008
Balzac in Cairo
New Statesman24 April 2008
A Cairo Conversion
Prospect26 March 2008
Interview with Omar and Zeina bin Laden
Australian's Women's Own27 February 2008
Diplomats 'face lifetime gag' in new rules from Foreign Office
Daily Telegraph10 October 2007
Inconvenient Truths
London Review of Books21 June 2007
Who did bomb Pan Am 103?
Sunday Times17 June 2007
Blogger is jailed for four years
Daily Telegraph23 February 2007
Trio cross Sahara after two marathons a day for three months
Daily Telegraph22 February 2007
Saudi king loses power to choose his successor
Daily Telegraph10 February 2007
The Al Jazeera Decade: Al Jazeera 10th Anniversary Commemorative Annual
Al Jazeera18 November 2006
Arab women journalists take their place in front line of war reporting
Daily Telegraph12 August 2006
Arab leaders' restraint rejected on the street
Daily Telegraph17 July 2006
The Al Jazeera Memo: To Publish or Not to Publish?
Arab Media and Society (formerly Transnational Broadcasting Studies)27 June 2006
Cutting a dash in the desert
The Independent23 June 2006
Novelist joins Cairo protest over police crackdown on reformers
Daily Telegraph03 June 2006
Egyptian riot police crush peaceful protest
Daily Telegraph13 May 2006
Bombs kill at least 21 in attacks on Red Sea tourists
Daily Telegraph25 April 2006
Coptic Christians attacked in churches
Daily Telegraph15 April 2006
Reality TV rivals divide the Arab world
Daily Telegraph10 February 2006
West's dilemma over Middle East democracy
BBC Website01 September 2005
The website warriors
Daily Telegraph01 August 2005
Two Britons reported dead in resort atrocity as tourists flee Egypt fearing fresh wave of attacks
Sunday Telegraph24 July 2005
Two faces of one of Islam's most important clerics
Daily Telegraph20 July 2005
Biochemist 'returned to find wife'
Daily Telegraph18 July 2005
Chemist denies knowing of explosives:
National Post18 July 2005
El-Nashar not known as an extremist
National Post16 July 2005
The pious and clever young chemistry student who left Cairo's slums behind
Daily Telegraph16 July 2005
Film tackles gay sex taboo
Daily Telegraph14 June 2005
Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the West
Foreign Policy Magazine12 March 2005
Caning it in Cairo
Guardian09 December 2004
Im a WMD eat me
Guardian28 October 2004
The Spirit of Saddam
Guardian01 September 2004
Watching the War on al-Jazeera
London Review of Books17 April 2003
The Piltdown Hoax
History Today25 March 2003
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