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‘My days just feel wasted in Gaza, living in fear, screaming from the sounds of rockets and bombs’
Like all Palestinians in Gaza, 30-year-old Abeer Harkali has lost everything over the past...
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Germany describes images of civilians burning after Israeli bombing in Gaza as 'horrendous'
The images emerging from Gaza showing burned children and civilians after Israeli airstrikes are...
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Syria and the war on Gaza
As the Middle East teeters on the brink of an all-out war, the consequences...
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- 369 Days
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- 98,500 Wounded
- 11,000 Missing
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'A textbook case of genocide': MEMO in Conversation with Craig Mokhiber
Craig Mokhiber resigned from the UN over its inaction with regards the ‘textbook case of genocide’ taking place in Gaza. One year on, little has changed. He joins MEMO in Conversation to discuss the events of the past 12 months.
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‘My days just feel wasted in Gaza, living in fear, screaming from the sounds of rockets and bombs’
Like all Palestinians in Gaza, 30-year-old Abeer Harkali has lost everything over the past 12 months, she has been displaced from her home, and again from so-called ‘safe shelters’ numerous times. Her father has been killed, and she lives in constant fear as a result of Israel’s endless bombing and the siege it has imposed on the enclave. But Abeer has another struggle, she was born with hemiplegia, a condition caused by brain damage or spinal cord injury that leads to paralysis on one side of the body, and uses a wheelchair as a result. “Its been a year full of cruelty and torture in its various ways and manners, I left my beautiful home that represented safety and comfort […]
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Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit
Towards the middle of a chapter on “The Palestine Film Unit’s Cinematic Experience” in her book Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit, Khadijeh Habashneh notes: “The film unit decided to avoid using two languages: one for the people, and one for the world.” In its context, this seems hardly more than a passing observation, but in fact, it is central to the philosophy behind the Palestine Film Unit (PFU). For what the author is really describing is the revolutionary nature of Palestinian cinema, how it sought to bridge the local and the global, not by diluting its message for international audiences, but by allowing the true objectives of the Palestinian people to speak directly to the […]
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Kaykat joz al-Hind (Coconut cake)
Surprise guests coming over? Don’t worry, all you need to do is whip up this delicious cake ...
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