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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Last week, Channel 4's Unreported World offered an insight into the Gaza Strip's property market. With almost 2 million inhabitants trapped on a sliver of land 25 miles long,...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Earlier this month, Israeli forces declared plans to demolish 11 homes in Deir Nidham in the northwest of Ramallah; their destruction will make way for the expansion of the...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
For the past three months pop-star hopefuls from across the Middle East have assembled in MBC's Beirut studios to compete for the title of Arab Idol. Every Friday they...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
This morning army and police officers opened fire on pro-Morsi supporters as they prayed outside the Republican Headquarters in Cairo. The demonstrators were staging a peaceful sit-in outside the...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
At first glance Nermine Hammam's work looks like beautiful Japanese prints hung on the lower floor of The Mosaic Rooms, a renovated Victorian townhouse that is now an art...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
"Many people ask me, how come you like jazz and you're an Arab? And I tell them it's because I'm an Arab" Reem teases, laughing at her own joke....
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The protests in Tunisia in 2010 may have swept away former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and 23 years of autocratic rule, but they have replaced him with a...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The River has two Banks: A Curatorial Project across Ramallah, Palestine and Amman, Jordan from September to the end of October 2012 The King Hussein Bridge that links Jordan...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
This week the City of Frankfurt chose to award American Jewish philosopher and Berkeley Professor Judith Butler with the 2012 Theodor Adorno Prize, an award that acknowledges superb contributions...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Waad Mohammed could be a twelve-year-old girl anywhere in the world. With long, curly brown hair and a cheeky smile, the flashes of the cameras reflect off her silver...
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January 23, 2014
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Amelia Smith
At around five million, France has the largest population of Muslims of any country in Europe. Things haven't always gone smoothly between its Muslim citizens and the government; incidents...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Playing instruments in the bathroom isn't quite what you expect when you think of classical musicians, but this is exactly what Palestinian flute player Dalia Moukarker does to snatch...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Sweeping shots of the desert make the 800-mile railway line cutting through its sand look miniature. As a train braves the track and appears in the corner of the...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Tucked into a corner of the Brunei Gallery in London are three share certificates in a display cabinet. One stands out as it is decorated with a beautiful blue...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The person in front of me flinches. Someone in the audience cannot even look at the screen, two people are crying. In an act of pure brutality, the camera...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Amnon Neumann is wearing a blue shirt and large glasses. Despite the topic he presents his testimony slowly and gently to the spectators in front of him; he's talking...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
In one of his drawings, Syrian political cartoonist Ali Ferzat has drawn a picture of Bashar Al Assad announcing reforms, but instead of speaking, Assad is blowing bubbles through...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Beyond Abbas's pictures of Iranian revolutionaries burning a portrait of the Shah in 1978, and past the stereotypical images of veiled women with mobile phones, a collection of photographs...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Walls and checkpoints in occupied Palestine mean that artists from Gaza and the West Bank, though from the same country, may never actually meet each other; art, therefore, can...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
As the bloody uprising in Syria continues to rage, Ayyam Gallery in Damascus does more than just show artwork; it has become a safe haven for artists. The gallery...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
A group of young boys gather around a TV set listening to the presenter as she delivers news of bombings in the Al Sadr neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Images...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
As South Africa's apartheid system neared its end, the regime asked their long-term ally Israel for some advice. How could they boost their image in the West and sell...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
On the back wall of a tiny room in West London, a telephone hangs patiently next to the door; to the left is a shelf on which a silver...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
These days there are a number of documentaries and academic books that address the Israel Palestine conflict; many of them, like Occupation 101, reveal how Israeli policy in the...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
It's hard to recreate the 1960s with only a quarter of the budget you intended to shoot on. But that's exactly what Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir did to film...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The Tedious Occupation of Bureaucracy Six years ago Palestinian director Nahed Awwad, her husband and their four-week-old daughter were on the way to Germany from their home in the...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The most disturbing part of Caryl Churchill's The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution is the relevance its main themes have today. Set in a psychiatric hospital at...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
One villager cuts open an apple and presents to the camera the fruit before him. Inside, in a neat circle, are five pips – one for each point of...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
The cameraman passes a microphone through a gap in the separation wall and a hand from the other side finds just enough space to take it; for one mother...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Qalandia, "I hate the word," says the protagonist as he walks through the familiar metal grille that protects the crossing between the West Bank and Jerusalem in the occupied...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
Nadar Khallaf lays out colourful cards in the centre of the circle and asks each of the 12 young men surrounding him to pick two of them. A member...
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January 22, 2014
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Amelia Smith
"It's kind of strange, but okay. You can't help but dance- in an awkward fashion- but it was well worth it," music lover Yahya Karali commented on a recent...
![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)
Last week, Channel 4's Unreported World offered an insight into the Gaza Strip's property market. With almost 2 million inhabitants trapped on a sliver of land 25 miles long,...
Earlier this month, Israeli forces declared plans to demolish 11 homes in Deir Nidham in the northwest of Ramallah; their destruction will make way for the expansion of the...
For the past three months pop-star hopefuls from across the Middle East have assembled in MBC's Beirut studios to compete for the title of Arab Idol. Every Friday they...
This morning army and police officers opened fire on pro-Morsi supporters as they prayed outside the Republican Headquarters in Cairo. The demonstrators were staging a peaceful sit-in outside the...
At first glance Nermine Hammam's work looks like beautiful Japanese prints hung on the lower floor of The Mosaic Rooms, a renovated Victorian townhouse that is now an art...
"Many people ask me, how come you like jazz and you're an Arab? And I tell them it's because I'm an Arab" Reem teases, laughing at her own joke....
The protests in Tunisia in 2010 may have swept away former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and 23 years of autocratic rule, but they have replaced him with a...
The River has two Banks: A Curatorial Project across Ramallah, Palestine and Amman, Jordan from September to the end of October 2012 The King Hussein Bridge that links Jordan...
This week the City of Frankfurt chose to award American Jewish philosopher and Berkeley Professor Judith Butler with the 2012 Theodor Adorno Prize, an award that acknowledges superb contributions...
Waad Mohammed could be a twelve-year-old girl anywhere in the world. With long, curly brown hair and a cheeky smile, the flashes of the cameras reflect off her silver...
At around five million, France has the largest population of Muslims of any country in Europe. Things haven't always gone smoothly between its Muslim citizens and the government; incidents...
Playing instruments in the bathroom isn't quite what you expect when you think of classical musicians, but this is exactly what Palestinian flute player Dalia Moukarker does to snatch...
Sweeping shots of the desert make the 800-mile railway line cutting through its sand look miniature. As a train braves the track and appears in the corner of the...
Tucked into a corner of the Brunei Gallery in London are three share certificates in a display cabinet. One stands out as it is decorated with a beautiful blue...
The person in front of me flinches. Someone in the audience cannot even look at the screen, two people are crying. In an act of pure brutality, the camera...
Amnon Neumann is wearing a blue shirt and large glasses. Despite the topic he presents his testimony slowly and gently to the spectators in front of him; he's talking...
In one of his drawings, Syrian political cartoonist Ali Ferzat has drawn a picture of Bashar Al Assad announcing reforms, but instead of speaking, Assad is blowing bubbles through...
Beyond Abbas's pictures of Iranian revolutionaries burning a portrait of the Shah in 1978, and past the stereotypical images of veiled women with mobile phones, a collection of photographs...
Walls and checkpoints in occupied Palestine mean that artists from Gaza and the West Bank, though from the same country, may never actually meet each other; art, therefore, can...
As the bloody uprising in Syria continues to rage, Ayyam Gallery in Damascus does more than just show artwork; it has become a safe haven for artists. The gallery...
A group of young boys gather around a TV set listening to the presenter as she delivers news of bombings in the Al Sadr neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Images...
On the back wall of a tiny room in West London, a telephone hangs patiently next to the door; to the left is a shelf on which a silver...
These days there are a number of documentaries and academic books that address the Israel Palestine conflict; many of them, like Occupation 101, reveal how Israeli policy in the...
It's hard to recreate the 1960s with only a quarter of the budget you intended to shoot on. But that's exactly what Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir did to film...
The Tedious Occupation of Bureaucracy Six years ago Palestinian director Nahed Awwad, her husband and their four-week-old daughter were on the way to Germany from their home in the...
The most disturbing part of Caryl Churchill's The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution is the relevance its main themes have today. Set in a psychiatric hospital at...
One villager cuts open an apple and presents to the camera the fruit before him. Inside, in a neat circle, are five pips – one for each point of...
The cameraman passes a microphone through a gap in the separation wall and a hand from the other side finds just enough space to take it; for one mother...
Qalandia, "I hate the word," says the protagonist as he walks through the familiar metal grille that protects the crossing between the West Bank and Jerusalem in the occupied...
Nadar Khallaf lays out colourful cards in the centre of the circle and asks each of the 12 young men surrounding him to pick two of them. A member...