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Middle East Eye
UK-based left, alleged Qatar ties
Middle East Eye is a London-based online news outlet covering the Middle East and North Africa, formally owned by M.E.E. Limited through majority shareholder Jamal Bessasso, with funding sources that remain undisclosed and are widely alleged to include the Qatari government. Its editorial orientation is left-leaning and sympathetic to Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood and to Palestinian causes, while taking a skeptical or adversarial stance toward Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Israel. Coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been broadly critical, particularly regarding U.S.-backed Israeli policy in Gaza and Washington's broader Middle East strategy.
Owned byM.E.E. Limited, a private UK company majority-owned (75%+ shares and voting rights) by Jamal Awn Jamal Bessasso, a Dutch national of Palestinian origin
LeaningUK-based left, alleged Qatar ties
On the administrationbroadly critical
6average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun