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July 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Corinne Silva's work is about Africa placed inside Europe. It speaks of the two continents' history and how they are connected today through commerce, travel and occupation. Between 2008...
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July 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
David Cameron came to power in 2010 promising service cuts unprecedented since 1945. He has since stripped down the NHS and axed over 600,000 public sector workers (a figure...
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July 18, 2014
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Amelia Smith
In the height of the summer, with nowhere to shelter from the sun, a group of people stand waiting to enter the UNHCR offices in Rabat, Morocco. Ahmed, whose...
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July 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Mohammed El Hamdaoui likens the Islamic Unification and Reform Movement (URM) in Morocco, of which he is the President, to a football team. "If you look at the structure...
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July 4, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Mustapha El-Khalfi calls the Arab Spring of 2011 the "democratic spring" though it's hard to see how it earned that name. There is a civil war raging in Syria,...
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In George Orwell's novel 1984, Winston Smith, whose job it is to edit historical documents so they reflect the party line, reads from Goldstein's book. "In accordance to the...
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Janan Abdu is a Palestinian social and feminist campaigner and researcher. Her husband Ameer Makhoul is also a human rights activist on behalf of Palestinians living in Israel; imprisoned,...
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Every week, inmates at the Israeli prison of Beer Al-Sabe' hold political debates inside their cells. What are the benefits of negotiations with Israel; how useful is the Palestine...
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"Whenever you have mutual interests between even two enemies and they agree on how to deal with it so they both profit that's perfect, that's exactly what you want...
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June 5, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Last week 70 protestors from the Jordan Valley gathered outside the UN office in Ramallah and delivered a letter to Ban Ki-moon: "We write to you to ask urgent...
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June 1, 2014
Middle East Monitor
"We come together on this book not because we agree on everything – we don't – but because of a shared belief that Jews and Palestinians are destined to...
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June 1, 2014
Middle East Monitor
It's 2012 and Leila Khaled can still manage to stir-up controversy. In May, the staff members at Manchester's branch of the Blackwell's bookshop were inundated with phone calls; the...
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June 1, 2014
Middle East Monitor
I never met Kathleen's late husband Bill, though after reading 'It's All Right, I'm Only Crying', I feel as though I know him. I know that he liked to...
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June 1, 2014
Middle East Monitor
It's the abundance of Raja Shehadeh's daily accounts, filled with frustration and despair, which makes you realise just how far the Israeli occupation reaches into every corner of Palestinians'...
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In a room adorned somewhat appropriately with black and white war photography the Senior Editor of Middle East Monitor, Ibrahim Hewitt, launched his book "MEMO to the Editor" at...
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When the Merowe Dam was built on the Nile in Sudan, life for the villagers of Abu Haraz would change forever In the small village of Abu Haraz in...
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
When Sara Ishaq returns to Yemen after ten years abroad reconnecting with the Scottish half of her roots she finds the country she grew up is on the brink...
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Abdul Basset Saroot, goalkeeper of the Syrian national youth football team turned armed opposition fighter, is now classed as a terrorist by Bashar Al-Assad. The army raided his neighbourhood...
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
In apartheid South Africa marriage between black and white people was prohibited and white-only jobs sanctioned. Areas designated as white were destroyed by bulldozers and the black population living...
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
"He was a man seeking power. He would do anything to achieve his goals, regardless of anyone. Even if you were a close friend he'd send you to jail....
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
"If the Nakba signifies the expulsion of the Palestinian citizen from his land, and seizing his land by force, then the Nakba began decades before 1948." It is this...
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
"The Israeli blockade may have taken a heavy toll on Gazans, but this film reveals life and hope among the devastation." Kamal Khalaf is a construction worker and father...
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Today around 300,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, yet only 2% of them have work permits. Lebanese law bans Palestinians from working in most professions; those that do work...
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
"In the film I will document a legal system; a system which organizes the rule of law in the territories we conquered in 1967. This is a unique system....
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May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
,p>Prior to Operation Pillar of Defence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party Likud had been declining in popularity. Netanyahu was also threatened by an opposition alliance of the former...
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May 11, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The supreme judge in Palestine, Tayseer Al-Tamimi, has denounced what he calls the "repeated crimes of the Israeli occupation authorities against all things Palestinian, be they human beings, stones...
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May 11, 2014
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Amelia Smith
"We want to capture this sense of their being 'living' media rather than artificially sacralised or displayed with a gallery-style reverence that was never their original intention, and which...
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May 10, 2014
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Amelia Smith
When the Merowe Dam in Sudan was built Ali Askouri, his family and their community were flooded out of their homes 80 kilometres from where it was being constructed...
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May 10, 2014
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Amelia Smith
In a recent debate in parliament, it was reported that former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had said that the greatest obstacle to peace between Israel, Palestine, and its...
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May 9, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The Arab Organisation of Human Rights in the UK Special Report – Egyptian government infected by mad Israeli wall disease The UK-based Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) confirms...
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April 18, 2014
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Amelia Smith
p style="text-align: left;" mce_style="text-align: left;">ANALYSISStatement on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory While the decision of the United Nations (UN) of 1947 (Resolution 181) to establish two states...
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April 2, 2014
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Amelia Smith
"When it takes you two whole days to cross a border, whereas it only takes a matter of hours to arrive in London; that is one meaning of freedom....
![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]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/104A0956.jpg?resize=400%2C385&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Corinne Silva's work is about Africa placed inside Europe. It speaks of the two continents' history and how they are connected today through commerce, travel and occupation. Between 2008...
David Cameron came to power in 2010 promising service cuts unprecedented since 1945. He has since stripped down the NHS and axed over 600,000 public sector workers (a figure...
In the height of the summer, with nowhere to shelter from the sun, a group of people stand waiting to enter the UNHCR offices in Rabat, Morocco. Ahmed, whose...
Mohammed El Hamdaoui likens the Islamic Unification and Reform Movement (URM) in Morocco, of which he is the President, to a football team. "If you look at the structure...
Mustapha El-Khalfi calls the Arab Spring of 2011 the "democratic spring" though it's hard to see how it earned that name. There is a civil war raging in Syria,...
In George Orwell's novel 1984, Winston Smith, whose job it is to edit historical documents so they reflect the party line, reads from Goldstein's book. "In accordance to the...
Janan Abdu is a Palestinian social and feminist campaigner and researcher. Her husband Ameer Makhoul is also a human rights activist on behalf of Palestinians living in Israel; imprisoned,...
Every week, inmates at the Israeli prison of Beer Al-Sabe' hold political debates inside their cells. What are the benefits of negotiations with Israel; how useful is the Palestine...
"Whenever you have mutual interests between even two enemies and they agree on how to deal with it so they both profit that's perfect, that's exactly what you want...
Last week 70 protestors from the Jordan Valley gathered outside the UN office in Ramallah and delivered a letter to Ban Ki-moon: "We write to you to ask urgent...
"We come together on this book not because we agree on everything – we don't – but because of a shared belief that Jews and Palestinians are destined to...
It's 2012 and Leila Khaled can still manage to stir-up controversy. In May, the staff members at Manchester's branch of the Blackwell's bookshop were inundated with phone calls; the...
I never met Kathleen's late husband Bill, though after reading 'It's All Right, I'm Only Crying', I feel as though I know him. I know that he liked to...
It's the abundance of Raja Shehadeh's daily accounts, filled with frustration and despair, which makes you realise just how far the Israeli occupation reaches into every corner of Palestinians'...
In a room adorned somewhat appropriately with black and white war photography the Senior Editor of Middle East Monitor, Ibrahim Hewitt, launched his book "MEMO to the Editor" at...
When the Merowe Dam was built on the Nile in Sudan, life for the villagers of Abu Haraz would change forever In the small village of Abu Haraz in...
When Sara Ishaq returns to Yemen after ten years abroad reconnecting with the Scottish half of her roots she finds the country she grew up is on the brink...
Abdul Basset Saroot, goalkeeper of the Syrian national youth football team turned armed opposition fighter, is now classed as a terrorist by Bashar Al-Assad. The army raided his neighbourhood...
In apartheid South Africa marriage between black and white people was prohibited and white-only jobs sanctioned. Areas designated as white were destroyed by bulldozers and the black population living...
"He was a man seeking power. He would do anything to achieve his goals, regardless of anyone. Even if you were a close friend he'd send you to jail....
"If the Nakba signifies the expulsion of the Palestinian citizen from his land, and seizing his land by force, then the Nakba began decades before 1948." It is this...
"The Israeli blockade may have taken a heavy toll on Gazans, but this film reveals life and hope among the devastation." Kamal Khalaf is a construction worker and father...
Today around 300,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, yet only 2% of them have work permits. Lebanese law bans Palestinians from working in most professions; those that do work...
"In the film I will document a legal system; a system which organizes the rule of law in the territories we conquered in 1967. This is a unique system....
,p>Prior to Operation Pillar of Defence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party Likud had been declining in popularity. Netanyahu was also threatened by an opposition alliance of the former...![A Palestinian man pours newly-made olive oil into a plastic container at an olive press in Gaza City October 6, 2016. [Ashraf Amra/ APA Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Gaza-trees-olives-oil-harvesting-04.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The supreme judge in Palestine, Tayseer Al-Tamimi, has denounced what he calls the "repeated crimes of the Israeli occupation authorities against all things Palestinian, be they human beings, stones...
"We want to capture this sense of their being 'living' media rather than artificially sacralised or displayed with a gallery-style reverence that was never their original intention, and which...![The waters of the Nile river cascade through the Merowe dam on 14 August 2007 [Isam Al-Haj/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-76102667-e1649248714317.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When the Merowe Dam in Sudan was built Ali Askouri, his family and their community were flooded out of their homes 80 kilometres from where it was being constructed...
In a recent debate in parliament, it was reported that former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had said that the greatest obstacle to peace between Israel, Palestine, and its...
p style="text-align: left;" mce_style="text-align: left;">ANALYSISStatement on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory While the decision of the United Nations (UN) of 1947 (Resolution 181) to establish two states...
"When it takes you two whole days to cross a border, whereas it only takes a matter of hours to arrive in London; that is one meaning of freedom....