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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.

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
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
On this day: The Egyptian army overthrew the country’s first democratically elected leader, Mohammed Morsi
Published in: Africa, Egypt, On this day, Videos & Photo Stories
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

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