Middle East Eye

The Middle East Eye (MEE) is an online news portal covering events in the Middle East and which has been cited by major media publications. The MEE website describes the organization as an "independently-funded online news organization" founded in February 2014 which "aims to be the primary portal of Middle East news." The MEE's editor is David Hearst, the former chief foreign leader writer for the British newspaper The Guardian. The MEE is wholly owned by M.E.E. Ltd, a UK company that employs about 20 full-time staff in its London offices and also has a network of freelance journalists. The sole director of M.E.E. Ltd is Jamal Bassasso, who was a former director of planning and human resources at Al Jazeera. David Hearst has said that his staff came from varied backgrounds while noting that "some were activists, but this doesn't effect their professional journalism". Hearst claimed that MEE is not linked to any government or movement.

The Middle East Eye is currently blocked in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia by the countries' internet censorship authorities.

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