March 3, 2017
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Amelia Smith 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...
October 12, 2016
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Amelia Smith 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...
October 4, 2016
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Amelia Smith 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...
September 27, 2016
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Amelia Smith 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...
September 21, 2016
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Amelia Smith 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...
September 17, 2016
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Amelia Smith 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...
September 5, 2016
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Amelia Smith In June, Oscar-winning screenwriter David Franzoni announced his upcoming biography of the 13-century Persian poet Rumi, a production he believes will counter the negative portrayal of Muslims put forward...
August 30, 2016
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Amelia Smith "There can be a pornographic interest in reducing Syrian and Palestinian artists to spectacles, relics and survivors"
August 15, 2016
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Amelia Smith Ayman Abbasi was beaten so badly when he was arrested his parents could barely recognise their son at the court hearing. He was held at Almaskoubia interrogation centre, released...
August 4, 2016
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Amelia Smith It took seven years to complete, over £10 million of taxpayers’ money yet a paperback version will set you back by £767: The Chilcot report. For those that don’t...
August 4, 2016
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Amelia Smith Manar Shab’an builds vertical gardens by growing taller vine vegetables above varieties that grow in the shade they provide. In her greenhouses she weaves together vertical and horizontal growing...
July 26, 2016
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Amelia Smith In the seventh century Arab World a king’s legitimacy was recognised through the praise he received from his contemporary poets – because of this a ruler is often remembered...
July 19, 2016
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Amelia Smith When Nai’s mum was pregnant with her second daughter she asked her neighbours to help think of a name. “If I had a third daughter I would call her...
July 14, 2016
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Amelia Smith Since his surprise appointment as Foreign Secretary yesterday, much has been made of Boris Johnson’s column in the Telegraph. In a particularly disturbing contribution that was penned in the...
July 11, 2016
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Amelia Smith Like the people of Palestine, African Americans in the US will continue to be subject to discrimination and violence long after the cameras withdraw
July 5, 2016
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Amelia Smith Amir Darwish tells me that poetry chose him at the age of 16. Originally from Kobani in northern Syria, he was born and raised in Aleppo – making poetry...
June 27, 2016
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Amelia Smith In the early eighties Adnan Al-Sayegh and his friend Ali Al-Ramahi spent much time discussing and writing poetry together. One day one of Ali’s works was published – it was critical of Saddam Hussein and his government and several days later he was killed. “Until...
June 21, 2016
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Amelia Smith “Peace in the context of some of the communities we’re working in is such a loaded term. We actually avoid using it because peace can mean surrender, submission."
June 20, 2016
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Amelia Smith In 2016 up to 150,000 refugees will pass through the West African country of Niger and cross its northern border into Libya or Algeria to catch a boat and...
May 13, 2016
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Amelia Smith During his 2009 speech at Cairo University, not long after he assumed office, President Barack Obama declared he was in the Egyptian capital to “seek a new beginning between...
When life in Egypt becomes too trying for a group of Syrian refugees who have escaped the war back home they decide to make the journey like thousands before...
On international women’s day an interview with Amber Fares, the director of Speed Sisters Amber Fares was living in Ramallah when a friend invited her to a street car...
An interview with the authors of Burning Country: “I think that’s the big story, that they’re practicing democracy and organising themselves to run things in really difficult circumstances and...
“Art is a threat because it’s a non-violent form of resistance and even non-violent forms of resistance are a threat; sometimes actually they are a greater threat.” At Home...
In November 2014, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda held that there was a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes had been committed...
Today marks five years since Egyptians took to the streets to demand Hosni Mubarak stand down as president. Eighteen days later he did just that. In the five years...
This is the second article of a two part series examining the role Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church played in the Egyptian revolution and the five years that followed...
January 21, 2016
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Amelia Smith This is the first article of a two part series examining the role Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church played in the Egyptian revolution and the five years that followed...
This week the UK met its commitment to resettle 1,000 men, women and children from refugee camps around Syria before Christmas in the first stage of a government pledge...
One windy day out at the seaside Poppy spends most of the time asking her parents when it’s time to leave; a normal day for a teenage girl until...
In a work by the Irish painter George William Joy, set during the Anglo-Egyptian administration in Sudan at the time of the British Empire, General Charles Gordon looks down...
November 24, 2015
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Amelia Smith Ayah El-Ghandour says that her father was murdered. Arrested and taken from his home in the middle of the night Dr Tarek El-Ghandour was everything that the Egyptian regime...
![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]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/104A0956.jpg?resize=400%2C385&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
![Image of Coptic Christians [File photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/news/africa/coptic-christians-prtoesting-egypt.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...
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...![[image from ITV]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/itv-the_forgotten_children_03.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...
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...
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...![Image of the Italian student and researcher Giulio Regen [File photo]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/giulio-regeni-02.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
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...
In June, Oscar-winning screenwriter David Franzoni announced his upcoming biography of the 13-century Persian poet Rumi, a production he believes will counter the negative portrayal of Muslims put forward...
"There can be a pornographic interest in reducing Syrian and Palestinian artists to spectacles, relics and survivors"
Ayman Abbasi was beaten so badly when he was arrested his parents could barely recognise their son at the court hearing. He was held at Almaskoubia interrogation centre, released...
It took seven years to complete, over £10 million of taxpayers’ money yet a paperback version will set you back by £767: The Chilcot report. For those that don’t...
Manar Shab’an builds vertical gardens by growing taller vine vegetables above varieties that grow in the shade they provide. In her greenhouses she weaves together vertical and horizontal growing...
In the seventh century Arab World a king’s legitimacy was recognised through the praise he received from his contemporary poets – because of this a ruler is often remembered...
When Nai’s mum was pregnant with her second daughter she asked her neighbours to help think of a name. “If I had a third daughter I would call her...
Since his surprise appointment as Foreign Secretary yesterday, much has been made of Boris Johnson’s column in the Telegraph. In a particularly disturbing contribution that was penned in the...
Like the people of Palestine, African Americans in the US will continue to be subject to discrimination and violence long after the cameras withdraw
Amir Darwish tells me that poetry chose him at the age of 16. Originally from Kobani in northern Syria, he was born and raised in Aleppo – making poetry...
In the early eighties Adnan Al-Sayegh and his friend Ali Al-Ramahi spent much time discussing and writing poetry together. One day one of Ali’s works was published – it was critical of Saddam Hussein and his government and several days later he was killed. “Until...![Image of Syrian refugees in Lebanon [Anadolu]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20160620_1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
“Peace in the context of some of the communities we’re working in is such a loaded term. We actually avoid using it because peace can mean surrender, submission."![Migrants captured on Aegean Sea [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/middle-east/Migrants-on-a-boat-at-sea-trying-to-make-their-way-to-greece-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=75&strip=all&ssl=1)
In 2016 up to 150,000 refugees will pass through the West African country of Niger and cross its northern border into Libya or Algeria to catch a boat and...
During his 2009 speech at Cairo University, not long after he assumed office, President Barack Obama declared he was in the Egyptian capital to “seek a new beginning between...
When life in Egypt becomes too trying for a group of Syrian refugees who have escaped the war back home they decide to make the journey like thousands before...
On international women’s day an interview with Amber Fares, the director of Speed Sisters Amber Fares was living in Ramallah when a friend invited her to a street car...
An interview with the authors of Burning Country: “I think that’s the big story, that they’re practicing democracy and organising themselves to run things in really difficult circumstances and...
“Art is a threat because it’s a non-violent form of resistance and even non-violent forms of resistance are a threat; sometimes actually they are a greater threat.” At Home...
In November 2014, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda held that there was a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes had been committed...
Today marks five years since Egyptians took to the streets to demand Hosni Mubarak stand down as president. Eighteen days later he did just that. In the five years...
This is the first article of a two part series examining the role Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church played in the Egyptian revolution and the five years that followed...
This week the UK met its commitment to resettle 1,000 men, women and children from refugee camps around Syria before Christmas in the first stage of a government pledge...
One windy day out at the seaside Poppy spends most of the time asking her parents when it’s time to leave; a normal day for a teenage girl until...
In a work by the Irish painter George William Joy, set during the Anglo-Egyptian administration in Sudan at the time of the British Empire, General Charles Gordon looks down...
Ayah El-Ghandour says that her father was murdered. Arrested and taken from his home in the middle of the night Dr Tarek El-Ghandour was everything that the Egyptian regime...