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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 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
Four years ago today 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...
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 Aylan 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 ashore...
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
July 19, 2017 | Amelia Smith
‘The victims of international terrorism are the Uyghurs’
Amelia Smith interviews Abdugheni Sabit, a Uyghur activist who left China in 2007 and settled in the Netherlands. Sabit is currently appealing to the international community to put pressure...
Published in: Africa, Asia & Americas, China, Egypt, Interviews
July 14, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Impending executions, mass trials: Egypt’s corrupt judiciary
Lofti Khalil was arrested outside a shop in Kafr El-Sheikh on 19 April 2015. His mother searched for him for over two months but heard nothing until eventually she...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
July 8, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Remembering the Republican Guard shooting in Egypt
Shortly after dawn prayers on 8 July 2013 Egyptian security forces shot dead 51 protesters who had camped out at the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo to call for...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, On this day, Opinion
July 7, 2017 | Amelia Smith
How Palestinians won the Nakba
A new play tells the story of Palestinian poet Taha Ali and how he rebuilt his life after the Nakba
Published in: Interviews, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
July 3, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Remembering Egypt’s bloody military coup
Four years ago today the Egyptian army overthrew the country’s first democratically elected leader, Mohammed Morsi. In the aftermath of the coup Egypt’s armed forces suspended the constitution and...
Published in: Africa, Egypt, On this day
June 29, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Sister of Egyptian Grenfell Tower victim: ‘I have hope she is still alive’
Amelia Smith interviews Rasha Ibrahim, the sister of Rania who lived with her two children on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower in west London, which suffered a devastating fire two weeks ago.
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Interviews, UK, Videos & Photo Stories
June 22, 2017 | Amelia Smith
From Grenfell to Palestine: The media has never been more out of touch with ‘real’ people
Days after the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, Nadia, a resident in the area, asked a reporter at Press TV why the media is refusing to report the real...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, UK
June 8, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Is Sisi really Egypt’s strongman?
The hypocrisy of Egypt’s decision to join Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE in cutting off diplomatic ties with Qatar on the grounds that the Gulf state supports terrorism...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Middle East, Opinion, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE
June 5, 2017 | Amelia Smith
‘Young people in Tunisia feel betrayed by politicians’
In February 2016 Lina Ben Mhenni began an initiative to open libraries inside prisons across Tunisia as a way to counter extremism. When she announced the initiative on her...
Published in: Africa, Interviews, Tunisia
May 24, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Egypt’s Coptic Christians face persecution at home and apathy abroad
When Shenouda became Pope of the Coptic Church in 1971 there were only two Coptic churches in the US – one in New York and one in Los Angeles....
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
May 11, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Macron has been praised by leaders across the Arab World, now he has to win over the people
It’s hard to put your finger on where exactly the ‘Muslim vote’ stood vis a vis the French election. Even though Le Pen stirred up plenty of Islamophobic sentiment...
Published in: Africa, Algeria, Article, Europe & Russia, France, Opinion
May 6, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Coptic soprano: ‘Christianity originated in the Middle East … We keep forgetting that.’
How familiar are you with Middle Eastern Christian chants?
Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Videos & Photo Stories
April 27, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Even extrajudicial killings won’t stop US support for Egypt
These brutal killings were caught on video, along with the bodies of other men who appear to have suffered the same fate.
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Videos & Photo Stories
April 13, 2017 | Amelia Smith
In times of terror, world leaders put their allies first and civilians second
Over the past two months, the world has witnessed some truly gruesome attacks and the loss of innocent civilian lives around the world. On 22 March, four people were...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, Russia, Syria, UK, US
April 5, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Sisi is neither a reliable, nor a credible negotiator for the Palestinian conflict
During his visit to the White House on Monday Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi told Trump he was confident the US President could broker a peace agreement between Israel...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
March 31, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Adam Curtis: ‘Gaddafi’s story holds up a mirror to Western hypocrisy’
There are two notable things about Gaddafi, says Adam Curtis. The first is that he was obsessed with the idea he was a global thinker and the second is...
Published in: Africa, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Libya, Review - Events & Articles, Reviews, UK, US
March 29, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Lebanese artist Nadim Karam: ‘I try to bring dreams to a city’
“I always say that I try to bring dreams to a city in order to create joy,” says Lebanese artist and architect Nadim Karam when I ask him about...
Published in: Interviews, Lebanon, Middle East, Reviews
March 17, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Over 1.5m Syrian refugees are lost in Lebanon
Sheikh Abdo, a refugee from Syria, had nothing when he arrived in Lebanon but still offered sanctuary to others who had crossed the border. At first people were sleeping...
Published in: HRW, International Organisations, Lebanon, Middle East, Review - Films & Documentaries, Reviews, UN
March 10, 2017 | Amelia Smith
‘Tony Blair and George Bush opened the gate of hell in Iraq’
By the time Zaradasht Ahmed had finished his education in 1991 the Gulf War had started and he was conscripted into the army. Instead of serving in the armed...
Published in: Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Iraq, Middle East, UK, US
March 3, 2017 | Amelia Smith
Egypt’s Christians have been forgotten by the church and the government
In early December relatives of 29 Christians killed in a church bombing carried the coffins of the deceased through the streets of Nasr City, a district in Cairo, to...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
October 12, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities
When recollecting the Nakba, Palestinian refugees in Syria recall fishing in the Jordan River, the trees on their land and the houses they once lived in. With these memories...
Published in: Review - Books, Reviews
October 4, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Abandoned child refugees are targeted for slavery and sex abuse in Europe
When Omar’s family crossed the Turkey-Bulgaria border it was February and it had begun to snow. Whilst the children took shelter, urinating on themselves to keep warm, Omar’s father...
Published in: EU, Europe & Russia, Greece, Middle East, Review - Films & Documentaries, Reviews, Syria
September 27, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Egypt’s refugee crisis: Sisi is the problem
On Saturday military strongman Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi promised to punish the “wrongdoers” responsible for the boat that capsized off the coast of Egypt last week. At least 194 people...
Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
September 21, 2016 | Amelia Smith
In the aftermath of Syria’s ceasefire the war on children resumes
In a recent interview with Channel 4 News one of President Assad’s key advisors said reports of chlorine attacks on children are “irrelevant to reality”. She was referring to...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, UK
September 17, 2016 | Amelia Smith
World leaders have categorically failed: Regeni is Egypt’s last chance for human rights
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has become the latest in long line of world leaders queuing up to meet Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi. Whilst Clinton will meet...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Italy, Opinion, US

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