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.

Items by Amelia Smith

- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem opposes 'My Name is Rachel Corrie' production at the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem

Over the past few weeks, Jerusalem’s deputy Mayor David Hadari has been busy writing letters. First he outlined a proposal to market 900 new housing units in an illegal settlement in East Jerusalem and sent it to the City Finance Committee. Then he wrote to the Hadari Appropriation Committee...
- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
Bringing contemporary Moroccan art to London

Finding a riad-style warehouse teeming with beautiful Moroccan furniture isn’t quite what you expect when stepping off the tube at Greenford in west London. But it is in a showroom at the heart of this Ealing suburb, at the top end of the central line, that husband and wife...
- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
#withoutwords: emerging Syrian artists at the P21 Gallery, London

There is something unnerving about Fadi Al Jabour’s doll. Painted using oils in the abstract realistic style, from a distance she is a cute with round cheeks and blond hair secured into pigtails with red ribbons. On closer inspection just one of her eyes is baby blue. The other...
- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
UK hip hop producer to take recording studio to Gaza

Dai Dream may be a British hip hop producer from Liverpool, but he has a huge fan base in the occupied territories. “I love Palestine and I love the country” he tells me. Recently, Dai worked on an album with MC Gaza, who is based in the Strip, and...
- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
Photographing Gaza: Paul Hansen and the World Press Photo Award

In the winning image, a group of men carry the bodies of two young Palestinian children wrapped in funeral shrouds down an alley in Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip. Behind them their father’s body is on a stretcher. They were killed in November 2012...
- November 4, 2013 Amelia Smith
Author Jean Said Makdisi speaks to MEMO's Amelia Smith about her books and her memories of Palestine

“Being Palestinian isn’t simply about nationalism; it can’t be. If it is, then it becomes distorted. That’s what led to the war in Lebanon. You have to have a sense of justice for everybody.” Jean Said Makdisi was working on her book, Teta, Mother and Me, when she discovered that...
- May 18, 2013 Amelia Smith
Lord David Steel speaks to MEMO

It's time to cancel the European Union's trade association with Israel if their government persists in violating international law...