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LIVE UPDATES: Palestinian families bury 50 recovered bodies from beneath the rubbles

Palestinian families bid farewell to 50 martyrs whose bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble after more than two years, thanks to the efforts of the Palestinian Civil Defense

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    • Gaza: On the ground

      • The IRGC paradox: Why economic collapse in Tehran won’t buy peace in Hormuz

        Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 22 July

        MEMO spoke to Motasem A Dalloul, a survivor of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in the first of a new series of regular updates from the ground. Dalloul describes the daily struggle to survive: hunger, cold, the collapse of healthcare, and ongoing Israeli violations despite the so-called ceasefire. WATCH:  Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 08 July

    • MEMO in conversation

      • The IRGC paradox: Why economic collapse in Tehran won’t buy peace in Hormuz

        MEMO in Conversation with Raouf Farrah

        In this conversation with Raouf Farrah, lead Africa analyst at SecDev and co-editor of Rising for Palestine, we discuss his new book and its call for renewed Africa-Palestine solidarity. We also discuss the Sumud convoy, a North African solidarity initiative organised to challenge Israel’s siege on Gaza. Farrah reflects on the political obstacles the convoy faced and what they reveal about the regional response to Palestine. Raouf Farrah is the Lead Africa Analyst at the SecDev Group, a risk analytics firm working at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. In 2025, he was instrumental in organising  The Sumud Convoy, an attempt to break Israel’s siege on Gaza This year, Farrah co-edited a book, Rising for Palestine. MORE >>> MEMO in […]

    • Reviews

      • The IRGC paradox: Why economic collapse in Tehran won’t buy peace in Hormuz

        The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s–1910s

        The history of a city is political. When examining the heritage of a place, it is often the case that present-day politics projects itself onto the past. Perhaps no other example of this is truer than the Ottoman past in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1913, the local council of the Bulgarian city of Sofia voted to demolish the last remaining Ottoman bathhouse, as Stefan Peychev writes, the destruction of the bathhouse represented more than the removal of a hygiene facility. ‘The bath was also one of the last architectural relics of a 500-year-long period that had seen Sofia’s rise as the capital of the Ottoman Empire’s European possessions in the mid-fifteenth century and its eventual decline to provincial obscurity […]

    • Palestine This Week

      • The IRGC paradox: Why economic collapse in Tehran won’t buy peace in Hormuz

        ‘The Board of Peace’ Or ‘Broker of Deceit’ | Palestine This Week

        In this episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with Jared Kushner’s meetings with Hamas political leader Khalil Al-Hayya and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking what the talks mean for the future of the Gaza ceasefire. We revisit the long-debunked claim that Palestine was sparsely populated before early Jewish settlement and ask why this version of history continues to resurface. We also look at changes to Saudi school textbooks, including the removal of the phrase “Muslims will never give up Jerusalem”. The episode also looks at settler violence in the occupied West Bank and US Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s decision to describe Israeli settlers as “terrorists” after American citizens were besieged by Israeli settlers. Finally, we discuss a false quotation […]

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

Israel Defies Trump as a New Regional Bloc Begins to Emerge | Palestine This Week

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

MEMO in Conversation with Motasem A Dalloul