Middle East

What to expect and where to find it.

In what will shortly be turned into a conspiracy theory by the darker elements of the body politic, a poster on the Tube advertising holidays in Israel featured a map with nary a sign of Palestine. The map, which showed an Israel composed of its …

Yet another victim of terrorism and its discontents: on his way to the rally outside the Israeli embassy this past weekend, local celebrity and professional rouser of rabbles, George Galloway MP, sustained various injuries when a group he was with met riot police in the …

Lowly Charlton Athletic have raised the hackles of officials in Tehran. How so? Through military brinkmanship and the threat of sanctions if the country doesn’t start toeing the official nuclear line? Nope. They’ve cancelled a football match against the Iranian national team. The friendly was …

Khat, the enervating plant masticated across much of the Middle East and Africa, is contributing to serious mental health issues among London’s east African communities, according to a report. The somnolent stare of the regular khat-chewer is a familiar sight for anybody who has travelled …

Honestly, what kind of topsy-turvy world is it where a man can’t keep for himself the spoils of war he half-inched on a foreign lark? That’s just what Boris Johnson is wondering. The mayor has been forced to hand over a cigar box that he …

A basket full of groceries tempts the book-loving Londoner this week, so let’s cut to the chase: Monday: Lots going on this evening. Tickets are still available for a heavyweight foreign affairs chinwag at the Southbank Centre. Longtime Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, award-winning reporter …

Fancy a trip to Israel? But don’t fancy lining up at LHR to pile onto a tedious flight? This might be what you’re looking for: a car rally from London to Jerusalem – in vintage vehicles, no less! As part of the State of Israel’s …

Hang on to your TLSs. Literary London is a lioness roaring in a few weeks ahead of her regularly scheduled appearance in March. With both the London Word Festival and Jewish Book Week launching this week, we’ve got enough events in our diary to keep …

The London International Comics Festival is halfway over, so if you haven’t seen any of it yet you owe it to yourself to investigate some sweet action with paper, ink and speech bubbles. The festival continues to tackle a nicely wide range of topics, so …