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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.

October 31, 2018 | Amelia Smith | Jehan Alfarra

Khashoggi's fiancée: 'I will follow Jamal's path'

'Jamal is and will always be my idol'

Published in: Europe & Russia, Interviews, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Videos & Photo Stories
October 29, 2018 | Amelia Smith

As benefactors to the worst dictators in the Middle East we have a unique role to play in Khashoggi's case

One image that resonates in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi's death is of the man standing outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul wearing a blue suit jacket and clasping...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK, US, Yemen
October 23, 2018 | Amelia Smith

P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book

Unlike the alphabet books which currently saturate the children's book market in the UK, where A is for apple and B is for ball, "P is for Palestine" offers...

Published in: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Review - Books, Reviews
October 4, 2018 | Amelia Smith

When we get rid of the Tories, life might just become better in the Middle East

Since Jeremy Corbyn became the Labour Party leader through a landslide victory in 2015 the Tories, backed by certain elements of the British press, have tried to convince the...

Published in: Africa, Article, Europe & Russia, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK, Yemen
September 10, 2018 | Amelia Smith

Persecuted at home, denied asylum in South Korea: the Egyptians with nowhere to go

In December 2012 Abdelrahman Zaid became one of the thousands of civilians to be incarcerated in Mubarak's sweep to end the Arab Spring. At the time of his arrest...

Published in: Africa, Asia & Americas, Egypt, International Organisations, Interviews, Middle East, South Korea, Syria, UN, US, Yemen
August 24, 2018 | Amelia Smith

The British government has no British values

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is currently pushing for the execution of human rights campaigner Israa Al-Ghomgham. As Israa waits to learn her fate, the rest of the world looks...

Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, International Organisations, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UN, US, Yemen
August 17, 2018 | Amelia Smith

Mystery shrouds extradition of Egypt imam from Spain

On 1 June Spanish police injected Dr. Alaa Mohamed Said with anesthetic, beat him and bundled him onto a plane bound for Egypt. For two days his wife Iman,...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, Spain
August 14, 2018 | Amelia Smith

Five years on from Rabaa Sisi's massacre continues in North Sinai

Rabaa represents the failed hope of Egyptian democracy and it set a precedent for the despicable brutality of a regime towards its own citizens.

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion, Videos & Photo Stories
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

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