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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.

September 11, 2020 | Amelia Smith
They risked their lives to show the horrors of war. Where are Syria’s journalists now?
Just before Marie Colvin died, she was looking for her shoes. Rockets had already hit the top floors of the makeshift press centre where she was holed up, in...
Published in: Article, Middle East, Opinion, Syria
August 26, 2020
Twitter ignites as Egypt ‘terror’ court hands 15-year term to human rights defender
A so-called terrorism court in Egypt has sentenced the President of the Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies, Bahey El-Din Hassan, to 15 years in prison in absentia. The...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, News, Twitter Trends
August 14, 2020 | Amelia Smith
Egypt’s medical aid diplomacy extends to Lebanon
On 4 August 2020, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut Port, sending a mushroom cloud above the city, and lighting a touch paper at one end of...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Europe & Russia, France, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UK, US
August 7, 2020 | Amelia Smith
The regime is determined to rewrite history. Egyptians are giving their lives to prevent it
On 23 June Sanaa Seif, along with her sister Mona, arrived at the Egyptian attorney general’s office to file a complaint. The night before, a group of government thugs,...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
July 14, 2020 | Amelia Smith
‘We will be victims of an honour killing,’ say Saudi sisters at risk of deportation from Turkey
On February 8 2017, Areej and Ashwaq Hamoud packed their belongings and left the house where they grew up in Saudi Arabia to board a plane to what they...
Published in: Asia & Americas, Canada, China, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey
May 27, 2020 | Amelia Smith
In Egypt a murdered woman means nothing but a policeman means everything
In 2008 Mohsen Al-Sukkari held up a card which identified him as block management and stepped inside the apartment of Lebanese pop sensation Suzanne Tamim. The next morning, she...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
April 24, 2020 | Amelia Smith
As a month of mercy begins across the world, no respite for Egyptians
Egypt is facing a catastrophe of epic proportions in the form of coronavirus. Hospitals are closing across the country, doctors are being hooked up to mechanical ventilators, and patients are...
Published in: Africa, Article, Coronavirus, Egypt, Opinion
April 17, 2020 | Amelia Smith
COVID-19 is exacerbating neo-colonialism, including in Egypt
As the number of medical staff testing positive for COVID-19 continues to climb, hospitals have closed their doors across the country
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Coronavirus, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, UK, US, Videos & Photo Stories
April 8, 2020 | Amelia Smith | Laila Ahmet
Um Ibrahim: ‘My son should be playing with his friends, not in an Egyptian prison’
When Ibrahim was arrested it was a summer’s day in Arish, the capital of North Sinai, and he was wearing a light t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Two...
Published in: Africa, Coronavirus, Egypt, Interviews
March 8, 2020 | Amelia Smith | Osama Gaweesh
In Egypt, only Asian tourists get tested for coronavirus
When Bill Jones* and his partner arrived at Luxor Airport to prepare to fly back to Cairo at the end of February, it was the end of a two-week...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, China, Coronavirus, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, UK
February 25, 2020 | Amelia Smith
Mubarak dies at 91 but his legacy lives on: Corruption, impunity, brutality
When former President Hosni Mubarak was acquitted of corruption in January 2015, analysts had already predicted it as a foregone conclusion. For many it was evidence that the deep...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
February 9, 2020 | Amelia Smith
Operation Sinai: Egypt’s ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin
Everything you need to know about Egypt’s ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Flashpoint, Videos & Photo Stories
February 9, 2020 | Amelia Smith
The US bought Sisi for $9bn, but the Egyptian people cannot be swayed
When Trump announced Jerusalem was Israel’s undivided capital under his so-called “deal of the century”, the Egyptian public questioned whether Al-Sisi had a hand in preparing the plan. His...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US, Videos & Photo Stories
January 31, 2020 | Amelia Smith
The host of Sisi’s ‘peace award’ has withdrawn. With the right pressure others may follow
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received the German Order of St. George in recognition of his peace-making efforts in North Africa
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Germany, International Organisations, Opinion, UN, Videos & Photo Stories
January 25, 2020 | Amelia Smith | Laila Ahmet
Egypt’s sex attacks on women are revenge for the 2011 revolution
The first time Sara Mohani was arrested security forces lined her up against a wall and described her body in intimate detail. “If we find any photo of the...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews
January 14, 2020 | Amelia Smith
Egypt’s military exercise is a warning to protesters ahead of the January 25 Revolution anniversary
Last week Egypt launched “Qader 2020”, a military display of ground, naval and air units choreographed to demonstrate the strength of the country’s armed forces
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, Turkey, Videos & Photo Stories
December 20, 2019 | Amelia Smith
Céline Lebrun-Shaath: ‘Ramy’s arrest is an attack on solidarity with Palestine’
When former Egyptian MP Ziad Al-Alimi was arrested by security forces, Ramy Shaath told his wife that of the coalition of activists that organised the 2011 protests against Hosni...
Published in: Africa, BDS, Egypt, Europe & Russia, France, International Organisations, Interviews, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
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

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