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LIVE UPDATES: Gaza cut off as Israel maintains 2nd day of communications blackout

For a second straight day on Thursday, residents of Gaza City were left without internet or landline service as Israeli attacks knocked out major infrastructure routes, deepening the enclave’s isolation under an ongoing military campaign

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        In this episode of A Conversation with MEMO, we speak with Yousef M Aljamal, editor of the book If I Must Die by the late Dr Refaat Alareer. The episode focuses on Refaat’s final poem, written shortly before he was assassinated by Israel, and how the book came together in the months after his death. Yousef talks about the personal and political meaning of the poem and why it has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance around the world. We also discuss the challenges of editing the book while still grieving, and what it means to protect the voice of someone who can no longer speak for himself. Yousef shares memories of Refaat as a teacher, mentor and writer who […]

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        The ‘uncancelled venue’: Palestine Museum offers podium to Palestinian narrative

        The Palestine Museum, which first opened as Palestine Museum US in Woodbridge, Connecticut, has expanded across the Atlantic with its first European branch opening last month in the Scottish capital Edinburgh. During the inaugural ceremony, Faisal Saleh, the founder and relentless visionary behind the museum, greeted guests with a quiet intensity that belied the storm of ideas swirling around him. Born to a Palestinian refugee family displaced from the village of Salama near Jaffa in 1948, Faisal’s journey from the occupied West Bank to US tech entrepreneur to ‘museum maker’ feels like a lifetime distilled into a singular mission: to carve out cultural space where Palestinians can own their narratives. Indeed, the Palestine Museum is no ordinary art museum. While […]

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        Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture

        Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture is a powerful collection of essays, testimonies and reflections edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller. It brings together over 300 contributors writing from Gaza and beyond amid the ongoing genocide. The result is a powerful, often raw, and consistently moving testimony of a society facing annihilation—yet still holding on to its history and humanity. The book was compiled in just three months after the launch of Israel’s devastating assault on the besieged enclave in 2023. Amid bombardment, displacement and communication blackouts, contributors shared their testimony and offered their reflections. Some sent voice notes in the dead of night; others relayed fragments of their testimony through broken connections. Together, the pieces […]

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        Israel and Islamophobia: Twin Engines Driving the Gaza Genocide | Palestine This Week

        In this episode of Palestine This Week, we unpack the findings of a new United Nations report which concludes that Israel’s conduct in Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide. Led by the former chief judge of the Rwanda tribunal, the report’s findings places renewed pressure on international institutions to act. We also look at the fallout from Israel’s unprovoked strike on Doha. With reports emerging that Donald Trump was informed of the attack in advance yet failed to intervene, the episode examines the impact of US failure to protect a key ally. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has issued fresh threats against Qatar while promoting a vision of Israel as a militarised “Super Sparta”. We ask what this means in reality. Finally, […]

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