BBC News Arabic Investigations

In exclusive, never heard before recordings of former Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, BBC News Arabic reveals the anxious telephone calls that helped seal the fate of his 23-year dictatorship and spark a wave of revolutions across the Middle East

On 6 July 2020, Hisham al-Hashimi, security adviser to Iraq's prime minister, was murdered outside his home in Baghdad.

BBC News Arabic’s Nawal al-Maghafi is the first reporter to enter Yemen since the outbreak of Covid-19. She bears witness to a war-torn nation that depends on humanitarian assistance for survival, forced to face a pandemic at a time when the international community has made cuts to aid.

For the first time, BBC News Arabic's Namak Khoshnaw - himself a Kurdish refugee from the days of Saddam Hussein - has been given unique access to film with Komala.

An investigation by BBC News Arabic has found that Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich, controls companies that have donated $100m to an Israeli settler organisation.

A BBC News investigation has exposed serious flaws in the Egyptian beauty industry that are endangering lives and leaving women scarred for life.

Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by providing and approving apps used for the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf.

For the first time, a team from BBC News Arabic was recently allowed to film the Baghdad police and its commander Major Aziz Nasser.

In February 2019, protests erupted on the streets of Algiers after it was announced that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was considering running for an unprecedented fifth term. In this, the first film to reveal how Algerians are rewriting the history of revolutions in the Arab world, leading characters from the Harak – the protest movement – reveal their personal reasons for coming onto the streets.

This film examines the impact of extreme heat on migrant workers in the Gulf. It focuses on the large number of sudden, unexpected deaths - recorded as due to heart failure - among Nepali workers in Qatar.

Nareeman Dosa, Saudi-born of Sudanese heritage, grew up in the Arab world experiencing the casual racism that most Black Arabs face. In this film, she visits Tunisia, the first Arab country to have made racial discrimination a criminal offence, and embarks on a journey to explore whether the law can change deep-rooted prejudice.

BBC News Arabic goes undercover to expose the businesses discriminating against Hijabi women in Egypt.

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states.

A BBC Arabic investigation has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting the Syrian-Kurdish political leader, Hevrin Khalaf, was executed by a faction of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army.

BBC News Arabic uncovers the deadly impact of the oil giants’ toxic air pollution on children and the planet.

TikTok takes almost 70% of donations to Syrian families begging on live streams on its app, BBC News has found.

As Egypt hosts world leaders at climate summit COP27, an oil terminal is dumping toxic wastewater on its Red Sea coast, a BBC News Arabic investigation has found.