Amelia Smith – Middle East Monitor

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Amelia Smith seen at Middle East Monitor's 'Jerusalem: Legalising the Occupation' conference in London, UK on 3 March, 2018 [Jehan Alfarra/Middle East Monitor]

Amelia Smith

Amelia Smith is a writer and journalist based in London who has reported from across the Middle East and North Africa. In 2016 Amelia was a finalist at the Write Stuff writing competition at the London Book Fair. Her first book, “The Arab Spring Five Years On”, was published in 2016 and brings together a collection of authors who analyse the protests and their aftermath half a decade after they flared in the region.

December 5, 2019 | Amelia Smith
No need to look to the Middle East, we have a dictator in the making here in the UK
In the midst of the 2011 uprising then newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman said that Egyptians were not ready for democracy. Such comments were to be expected from...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UK
November 26, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Mohamed Ali: ‘No shop can compete with the army because they don’t pay tax’
The Egyptian army did not have to pay tax or customs on products entering the country which made it impossible for other businesses to compete
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Videos & Photo Stories
November 22, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Egypt whistleblower: Torture chambers were small projects I didn’t work on
Egyptian whistleblower Mohamed Ali told MEMO that he built the part of the intelligence headquarters where the cyber army was housed
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Videos & Photo Stories
November 21, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Mohamed Ali: ‘Constructing prisons is a very lucrative business’
MEMO exclusive interview with Mohamed Ali
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Videos & Photo Stories
November 15, 2019 | Amelia Smith
‘I haven’t seen them in over seven months’, says mother of 3 children abducted to Lebanon
On the weekend of Khawla Khalifa’s birthday it was her ex-husband’s turn with their three kids. He picked them up after school on Friday and she was expecting them...
Published in: Asia & Americas, Canada, Interviews, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, UAE
October 14, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Palestinian Cinema in the Days of the Revolution
From the late sixties up until the early eighties Palestinians formed a resistance movement to liberate their homeland and ensure the return of their refugees. A vital part of...
Published in: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Review - Books, Reviews
October 11, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Egypt-Lebanon artist: ‘Mahmoud Darwish would have been inspired by the Arab Spring’
During the 2011 Egyptian revolution Bahia Shehab sprayed “no” in Arabic 1,000 times on the walls of downtown Cairo. No to dictators, no to military rule, no to violence....
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Lebanon, Middle East, UK
September 27, 2019 | Laila Ahmet | Amelia Smith
Massaad Abu Fager: ‘I call on Egyptians to continue to demonstrate’
Shortly after the profile of a well-known Sinai activist appeared in an Egyptian newspaper, the intelligence services called the journalist who interviewed him: “Why have you published a picture...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Israel, Palestine
August 24, 2019 | Laila Ahmet | Amelia Smith
At 14 Haitham was one of Egypt’s youngest political prisoners: ‘They forgot I was a child’
Four years on from his arrest one of Egypt’s child political prisoners Haitham Abdel Rahim recalls 50 days of torture.
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, UN
August 14, 2019 | Laila Ahmet | Amelia Smith
Husband and son in prison. Daughter shot in Rabaa. Asmaa Beltagi’s mum speaks on the massacre
Sanaa Abdelgawad and her daughter Asmaa Beltagi were in front of Rabaa’s main stage when security forces advanced on the square. The area was immersed in smoke and Sanaa...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Turkey, Videos & Photo Stories
August 7, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Under the war on terror Egypt is ethnically cleansing the Sinai Bedouin
Last month the Egyptian government demolished Bedouin-owned houses in Tarabin village in South Sinai on the grounds that they were not “legally” owned
Published in: Africa, Article, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Middle East, Opinion, Videos & Photo Stories
July 22, 2019 | Amelia Smith
North Sinai: Creating a new Egypt in Sisi’s image
In the heart of Al-Arish, the capital of the North Sinai Governorate, Metito is building a desalination plant at the cost of $96 million. The water group, which is...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
July 17, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Sink Without a Trace: ‘Balancing politics and aesthetics’
An exhibition in London shone a light on the loss of life which results from people being forced to risk their lives to survive
Published in: Africa, Europe & Russia, Libya, Middle East, Review - Events & Articles, Reviews, Syria, UK
July 4, 2019 | Amelia Smith
International bodies condemn the Libya air strike, but they have failed the country
Late last night the UN failed to agree on a statement condemning an air strike which killed 44 refugees in a detention centre in Libya because the US ambassador...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, EU, International Organisations, Libya, Opinion, UN
July 2, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Egypt ‘ambassador of poor’ released, rearrested and denied family visits
Before she was arrested Somaya Nasef spent her time walking the streets of Cairo looking for medicine to administer to street children. Essential drugs like insulin and penicillin have...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Middle East, Qatar
June 28, 2019 | Laila Ahmet | Amelia Smith
Forced out by the Crown Prince’s reforms, a wave of Egyptians arrive in Turkey
In 2008 Mariam Ahmed and her family set off east from her homeland Egypt and landed in Saudi Arabia where they became part of the Kingdom’s two million strong...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yemen
June 24, 2019 | Amelia Smith
UK arms deals gave Egypt the legitimacy it needed to kill Morsi
In 2018 a cross-party group of British MPs asked the Egyptian government for access to Mohamed Morsi amid fears that the former President’s death was imminent. The answer that...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, EU, Opinion, UK
June 18, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Obituary: Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first, democratic president
It was at a retrial for colluding with Hamas yesterday that the Brotherhood leader collapsed in his sound proof box and was transferred to hospital
Published in: Africa, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Profiles, US, Videos & Photo Stories
June 13, 2019 | Amelia Smith
As Egypt starves, Sisi stirs horror in Libya and Sudan
In a recent Foreign Policy article Brotherhood member Yehia Hamed forecast that Egypt will soon be bankrupt if it continues in the same vein. External debt has increased fivefold...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, UAE
June 7, 2019 | Amelia Smith | Laila Ahmet
Egypt family face ‘severe breakdown’ at son’s impending execution
In March 2015 masked men broke down the door of Khaled Saddouma’s house, entered his son’s bedroom where he was sleeping and dragged him out of the house without...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews
June 3, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Far-right terror is on the rise. So why is Trump in the UK?
The UK’s first female Prime Minister in 26 years – only the second in our history – has chosen as her farewell performance to welcome the right-wing President of...
Published in: Asia & Americas, Blog, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK, US, Yemen
June 3, 2019 | Amelia Smith | Laila Ahmet
Egypt forcibly disappears baby from his home in Alexandria
On 9 March Manar Abu Naga was forcibly disappeared from her home in Alexandria along with her husband Omar and their one-year-old son Braa. “One of the neighbours told...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews
December 14, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Egypt journalist detained in public loo, ‘beaten’ by police at Edinburgh Airport
At 4pm on Thursday 13 December Egyptian journalist AbdulRahman Ezz was prevented from boarding his flight to France from Edinburgh Airport where he intended to cover the yellow vest...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Europe & Russia, France, Opinion, UK
December 13, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Turner Prize entry refutes Israel claim Umm Hiran killing was terror attack
In the early hours of 18 January 2017 Keren Manor was filming a raid on the unrecognised Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran in the Naqab desert, just metres away...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
November 30, 2018 | Amelia Smith
19-year-old Brit who snapped Egypt from plane window arrested for spying
Last week, as the plane carrying 19-year-old Muhammed AbdelKasem and his friend descended into Borg El Arab Airport in Alexandria, Muhammed took out his phone, leaned towards the window...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, UK
November 23, 2018 | Amelia Smith
‘I know where her father is,’ said manager of Egypt nursery before expelling two-year-old daughter of political prisoner
On Wednesday afternoon the nursery where Rana Greash’s daughter was enrolled called her and invited her for a meeting. “My partner knows who Laila’s father is,” said the manager...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews
November 13, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Former Sinai MP: ‘Mubarak was a treasure to Israel. Sisi is much more than that’
In 2014, fresh from the coup they led against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the government offered Yehya Okail the position of deputy mayor of North Sinai. He wasn’t...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
November 10, 2018 | Amelia Smith
In the land of my birth: A Palestinian boyhood
Reja-e Busailah has lost two dear parts of himself over the course of his lifetime: his sight and his homeland. In his autobiography, “In the land of my birth:...
Published in: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Review - Books, Reviews
October 31, 2018 | Amelia Smith | Jehan Alfarra
Khashoggi’s fiancée: ‘I will follow Jamal’s path’
'Jamal is and will always be my idol'
Published in: Europe & Russia, Interviews, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Videos & Photo Stories
October 29, 2018 | Amelia Smith
As benefactors to the worst dictators in the Middle East we have a unique role to play in Khashoggi’s case
One image that resonates in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi’s death is of the man standing outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul wearing a blue suit jacket and clasping...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK, US, Yemen
October 23, 2018 | Amelia Smith
P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book
Unlike the alphabet books which currently saturate the children’s book market in the UK, where A is for apple and B is for ball, “P is for Palestine” offers...
Published in: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Review - Books, Reviews
October 4, 2018 | Amelia Smith
When we get rid of the Tories, life might just become better in the Middle East
Since Jeremy Corbyn became the Labour Party leader through a landslide victory in 2015 the Tories, backed by certain elements of the British press, have tried to convince the...
Published in: Africa, Article, Europe & Russia, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK, Yemen

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