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UK may remove HTS from terror list amid ‘fluid’ situation in Syria
The British government may remove Syrian militant group Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) from its...
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Sudan’s government and the opposition propose 2 different visions for a new Sudan
In anticipation of the end of the war in Sudan, political parties have been...
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Is the overthrow of Assad good for the Palestinians?
Yesterday morning thousands of Syrians took to the streets of Damascus and across Syria...
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Syria burns again: MEMO in Conversation with Hussam Hammoud
For many, the civil war in Syria has been a distant memory, but that all changed when in a sudden turn of events, rebel groups captured the country’s second largest city, Aleppo, and began to move towards other northern cities. But why is all this happening now? Syrian journalist Hussam Hammoud joins us to explain.
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‘All the destruction Israel has created in Gaza is nothing, if we remain firm on our land’, says Nakba survivor
Sitting in the corner of the tent trembling in the cold winter weather with cracks on her skin reflecting her suffering, 86-year-old Aisha Mohammad Abu Sultan continues to keep her spirits high. When I approached her and asked her to send a message to the world as an eyewitness to the Palestinian 1948 Nakba as well as the ongoing Nakba, I thought she would complain about the terrible conditions Palestinians in Gaza are living under and tell stories of suffering, but I found a heroine in the body of an old pale lady. “My son,” she says, “we were subjected to the Nakba in 1948 and all the past years we had been moving away, far from the realisation of […]
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An Old Carriage with Curtains
Ghassan Zaqtan’s impeccable weaving of Palestinian memory serves as a reminder of how far such memory can extend in a confined, ever-shrinking geopolitical space constantly eroded by Israeli colonialism and the ensuing military Occupation. The last book in a trilogy, An Old Carriage with Curtains (Seagull Books, 2023) does not pick up from Where the Bird Disappeared (2018), although the themes explored in the books carry similar strands and one is still reminded of the previous. Interspersed with earlier history which centres Palestine’s significance, the book is rooted in the present navigations of the narrator attempting to secure a visitation permit for his mother to visit the village of Zakariyya. The narrator’s solitary musings, based upon incessant observation, illustrate scenes […]
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Alayet bandoura bil lahmeh (tomato and meat stew)
In my opinion, there are two types of people in the world, those who prefer tomato-based stews ...
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