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    • Gaza: On the ground

      • Iran says Arab foreign ministers to sign Hormuz navigation deal in Oman Monday

        Pakistan premier Sharif calls for enhanced cooperation with Syria, invites President al-Sharaa to visit

        Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday called for expanded cooperation with Syria across multiple sectors and invited Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to visit the South Asian country as Islamabad seeks to strengthen ties with Damascus, Anadolu agency reported. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani met Sharif in Islamabad, where the Pakistani premier welcomed the Syrian delegation and conveyed his best wishes to President al-Sharaa, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office. Sharif reaffirmed Pakistan’s support for Syria’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, including its position on the Golan Heights. Recalling the longstanding ties between the two countries, Sharif called for stronger cooperation in politics, defence, trade, investment, education and human resource development. He also said restoring […]

    • MEMO in conversation

      • Iran says Arab foreign ministers to sign Hormuz navigation deal in Oman Monday

        MEMO in Conversation with Prof Avi Shlaim

        In this episode of Conversation with MEMO, Professor Avi Shlaim discusses the Britain Owes Palestine campaign and its legal case demanding that the UK acknowledge its historic responsibility for Palestine. He examines Britain’s role during the Mandate, the repression of Palestinians, the road to the Nakba and what meaningful accountability and reparation could look like today. MORE >>> MEMO in Conversation With

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      • Iran says Arab foreign ministers to sign Hormuz navigation deal in Oman Monday

        The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul

        A black and white still featuring a shirtless muscular man appeared in an Ottoman magazine in 1910. The man, who is well chiseled, is demonstrating his own physical excellence that was achieved through a regime of exercise and gymnasiums. However, Selim Sirri is not merely showing off the fruits of his efforts, he is part of a reformist movement that sees physical education, disciplining the human body and exercise as being at the heart of a modernising empire. Newspapers and magazines were using Sirri to underscore the idea that physical education, ‘carried a symbolic meaning-the Ottoman Empire had joined a global community of physical education.’ Elsewhere, a letter dated to 1906, complaining about the referee in Galatasaray’s football match as […]

    • Palestine This Week

      • Iran says Arab foreign ministers to sign Hormuz navigation deal in Oman Monday

        Israel’s Campaign Trail Runs on Cruelty Towards Palestinians | Palestine This Week

        In this episode of Palestine This Week, we look at Israel’s election campaign and how politicians are competing to run the most hateful campaign in an effort to win support from an increasingly radicalised Israeli public. We also discuss the push to expel Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank, Israel’s efforts to win US backing for its plans, allegations of apartheid against Palestinian students in Israeli universities, Britain’s proposed sanctions on illegal settlements, Nicaragua’s case against Germany at the ICJ and concerns over the future of UNRWA.     WATCH: Is Evidence of Genocide in Gaza Being Erased? | Palestine This Week

Islam Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads

Israel’s Campaign Trail Runs on Cruelty Towards Palestinians | Palestine This Week

Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign Policy

MEMO in Conversation with Prof Avi Shlaim