- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Amelia Smith interviews Hammam Yousef, a Syrian activist who co-founded the Syrian Non-Violence Movement during the 2011 uprising.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- "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...
- Palestinian actor and director Momin Swaitat looks at life under occupation and the contemporary refugee experience in his latest work 'Alien Land'
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- By the end of August 2017, 112,450 Eritreans were registered as refugees and asylum seekers in Sudan
- 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...
- 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...
- "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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- A new play tells the story of Palestinian poet Taha Ali and how he rebuilt his life after the Nakba
- On this day: The Egyptian army overthrew the country’s first democratically elected leader, Mohammed Morsi
- 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.