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US use of 'Hague Invasion Act' to threaten ICC sparks backlash
US officials have sparked controversy by invoking the so-called “Hague Invasion Act” in response...
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Israel has violated Lebanon ceasefire on 129 occasions
The Israeli army continues to violate the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with...
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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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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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