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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.

July 31, 2018 | Amelia Smith | Jehan Alfarra
Haifa film festival reclaims city's status as cultural capital
The festival is an attempt to connect with the Arab World
Published in: Interviews, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories
July 6, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Refusing to open borders, separating parents and children. We have truly lost our humanity
For politicians across the world, refugees are not human beings any more, they are rubbish to be disposed.
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, UK, US, Videos & Photo Stories
June 25, 2018 | Amelia Smith
At the World Cup 2018, regional rivalries play out on the pitch
Last week, not even Egypt's fourth pyramid Mohammad Salah could save the Pharaoh's from their 3-1 defeat against Russia. A further loss against Uruguay secured the Egyptian team seats...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UK
June 22, 2018 | Amelia Smith
In London, theatre is helping four young refugees process trauma
The first time Talal Hasan met Omar Almahel they slept side by side on a piece of cardboard at a train station in Brussels. Not long after this the...
Published in: Africa, Chad, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Israel, Libya, Middle East, Palestine, Syria, UK
June 1, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Palestine has a wealth of talented filmmakers, but no cinema industry to showcase them
Haifa Independent Film Festival prides itself on being independent from the Israeli government and is not supported by any organisation or institute
Published in: Blog, Blogs - Politics, Europe & Russia, France, Germany, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories
May 18, 2018 | Amelia Smith
It took 116 dead Palestinians for Egypt to ease its siege on Gaza for a month
Yesterday Egyptian military strongman Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi announced on Twitter that the Rafah border crossing to Gaza would remain open throughout the entire month of Ramadan. Al-Sisi's tweet came...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
May 10, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Welcome to Sinai, where soldiers shoot children then boast on Facebook
Even by the standards of Egypt's dirty war the video circulating this week of a young boy pleading for his mother moments before he was shot in central Sinai...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
May 3, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Yusuf Qaradawi's granddaughter: 'It never crossed our mind they would detain my mother because of my grandfather'
Amelia Smith interviews Aayah Khalaf, the daughter of Ola Al-Qaradawi and Hosam Khalaf who have been detained for nearly a year in Egypt. Ola is the daughter of the exiled Egyptian scholar Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.
Published in: Africa, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Interviews, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, UAE, US
April 25, 2018 | Amelia Smith
The UK government steals billions from the poor to fund illegal wars in the Middle East
You don't have to look far to find evidence of the abject failures of the current Tory government, they are plastered over every media outlet – the Windrush scandal, Brexit...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, UK
April 21, 2018 | Amelia Smith
'Syrians are not cockroaches to be exterminated'
Amelia Smith interviews Hammam Yousef, a Syrian activist who co-founded the Syrian Non-Violence Movement during the 2011 uprising.
Published in: Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Middle East, Russia, Syria, US
April 11, 2018 | Amelia Smith
World leaders shed a tear for Syrian children, but for Gaza it's business as usual
In the aftermath of the chemical weapons assault that suffocated to death over 80 men, women and children in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta, this weekend British Prime...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK, UN, US, Yemen
March 23, 2018 | Amelia Smith
In Egypt the British trade millions of dollars for human rights
In 2016 UK investments in Egypt topped $30 billion. Instead of using their influence to force Egypt to behave, the UK has awarded Sisi with $500,000 of investment for every Egyptian locked up for pro-democracy protests.
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Publications, Reports
March 8, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Here come the next generation of female, Middle East activists
On the 15 December 2017 Israeli soldiers raided Ahed Tamimi's home and shot her cousin in the head at close range shattering his skull. Ahed and her cousin ran...
Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
February 23, 2018 | Amelia Smith
'The regime is killing people and the whole world is watching'
Mohamed Adel has been inside his office, a basement below a building in Douma in Eastern Ghouta, for four days now. Yesterday at midnight he decided to risk the...
Published in: Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Interviews, Middle East, Russia, Syria, UN
February 6, 2018 | Amelia Smith
Doria Shafiq won the vote for Egyptian women, and kicked the Brits out
"To know, to be able, to want and to dare," Doria Shafiq Britain today is celebrating the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, passed on 6 February...
Published in: Africa, Algeria, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, UK
January 15, 2018 | Amelia Smith
'As a Palestinian on the stage I feel I'm fighting, I'm resisting'
Palestinian actor and director Momin Swaitat looks at life under occupation and the contemporary refugee experience in his latest work 'Alien Land'
Published in: Europe & Russia, Interviews, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, UK, Videos & Photo Stories
December 20, 2017 | Amelia Smith
1,000 days of Saudi war on Yemen, backed by the UK
This week marks 1,000 days since the Saudi-led coalition launched a bombing campaign in Yemen. What followed was the world's worst cholera epidemic and horrific human rights abuses on...
Published in: Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
December 7, 2017 | Amelia Smith
The UK supported Saleh and every other Middle East tragedy
Shortly after photos of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wrapped in a red blanket bearing a fatal head wound, were circulated on Twitter, a shot of him flanked...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, UK, US, Yemen
November 25, 2017 | Amelia Smith
'The Syrian conflict is a very big money machine'
Manaf Halbouni tells me that the price of tomatoes in Syria has increased 80 fold since the start of the conflict: "When I left Syria you used to pay...
Published in: Europe & Russia, Germany, Interviews, Middle East, Syria
November 15, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Code Name: Butterfly
Butterfly is not your average schoolgirl; at least not if you went to school in the UK. One of her best friends calls herself Dalal Mughrabi after the female...
Published in: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Review - Books, Reviews
November 13, 2017 | Amelia Smith
The million-dollar boat ride across the Mediterranean
By the end of August 2017, 112,450 Eritreans were registered as refugees and asylum seekers in Sudan
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Publications, Reports, South Sudan, Sudan
November 10, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
Ibtisam Barakat's house in Ramallah is made of memories, not stone, she tells us. It is made of birds migrating in the sky, of her mother and father, of...
Published in: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Review - Books, Reviews
October 19, 2017 | Amelia Smith
'I am steadfast,' says Egyptian preacher on death row
Sheikh Fadl Al-Mawla Hassan was at work at the Engineer's Syndicate in Alexandria when Egyptian forces raided the building. Everyone, including the security guards and officials working for the...
Published in: Africa, Amnesty International, Egypt, International Organisations, Interviews
September 29, 2017 | Amelia Smith
'The military plan to wipe out all Muslims in Myanmar'
"This village is a Muslim-free zone," reads a sign hanging at the entrance to a village in an area of Myanmar outside Rakhine state. The orders are directed at...
Published in: Asia & Americas, Bangladesh, Europe & Russia, France, Interviews, Myanmar, UK
September 15, 2017 | Amelia Smith
'Abdulrahman confessed when security forces threatened to rape his mother'
In 2015 six young men were sentenced to death in Egypt for killing a policeman in what became known as the Mansoura Six case. Amelia Smith interviews family members and friends of the ‘six oppressed’ about conditions inside the prison and how their sentencing was more about settling political scores than acting on solid evidence.
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Videos & Photo Stories
September 8, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Momentum builds to end human rights violations in Egypt
Last week the UN put into words what many human rights organisations and activists have been saying for years now: that they are gravely concerned about Egypt's ongoing assault...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Opinion, US
August 18, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Remembering the gassing of Egypt's protesters
Four years ago today 37 Egyptians were gassed to death in a police van outside the Abu Zaabal prison in Cairo. Temperatures outside topped 31 degrees and many had...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, On this day, Opinion
August 14, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Remembering the Rabaa massacre
In mid-August 2013, the Egyptian army stormed a sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa square and slaughtered 1,000 people who were protesting against the removal of the country's first democratically elected...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, On this day, Opinion, Videos & Photo Stories
August 14, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Rabaa field doctor: 'They burned them dead and alive'
Dr. Hanan Al-Amin was in a makeshift operating room in the Rabaa field hospital when security forces burst into the room and ordered her and another doctor to leave....
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews
August 8, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Israel is squeezing press freedoms, like Arab dictators do
The announcement of Israeli communications minister Ayoub Kara this weekend that he would revoke the press credentials of journalists working at Al Jazeera 's office in Jerusalem and shut...
Published in: Africa, Amnesty International, Article, Egypt, International Organisations, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE
August 4, 2017 | Amelia Smith
'Refugee detention centres cause terrible mental consequences'
In September 2015 three-year-old Alan Kurdi was photographed lying face down on a beach wearing a bright red t-shirt and blue shorts. The young Syrian boy had been washed...
Published in: Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Middle East, Syria, UK, US
July 28, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Egypt's war on Sinai
An Egyptian army tank ran over a car bomb in the Sinai Peninsula and didn’t hit the international press until a week after the incident
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion, Videos & Photo Stories

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