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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.

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
September 5, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Arab cinema fights censorship at home and hate crime in the West
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...
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Middle East, Opinion, US
August 30, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Depicting the future of Palestine
"There can be a pornographic interest in reducing Syrian and Palestinian artists to spectacles, relics and survivors"
Published in: Interviews, Middle East, Palestine, Syria, Videos & Photo Stories
August 15, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Dreaming of Freedom: Palestinian child prisoners speak
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...
Published in: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Review - Books, Reviews
August 4, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Comedians to read all 2.6 million words of Chilcot report at Edinburgh Fringe Festival event
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...
Published in: Blog, Blogs - Politics, Europe & Russia, Opinion, UK
August 4, 2016 | Amelia Smith
A British step to help Palestinian entrepreneurs defy the occupation
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...
Published in: Interviews, Middle East, Palestine, UK, Videos & Photo Stories
July 26, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World
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...
Published in: Review - Books, Reviews
July 19, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Palestinian flutist Nai Barghouti: Art has become a privilege and not a right
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...
Published in: Europe & Russia, Interviews, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, UK, Videos & Photo Stories
July 14, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Bojo is a disaster for the Middle East
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...
Published in: Article, Europe & Russia, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, Russia, Syria, UK
July 11, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Whether they are African American or Palestinian, all lives matter
Like the people of Palestine, African Americans in the US will continue to be subject to discrimination and violence long after the cameras withdraw
Published in: Article, Asia & Americas, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
July 5, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Syrian-Kurdish poet Amir Darwish: “It is not a crisis for the Syrian people, it is a universal crisis”
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...
Published in: Interviews, Middle East, Syria
June 27, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh: “My poetry has always been related to freedom”
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...
Published in: Interviews, Iraq, Middle East, Palestine
June 21, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Preparing at grassroots for a peaceful, post-war Syria
“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."
Published in: Europe & Russia, Interviews, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, Turkey
June 20, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Refugees have helped the West expand its war on terror
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...
Published in: Africa, Algeria, Article, Asia & Americas, Europe & Russia, Libya, Opinion, US
May 13, 2016 | Amelia Smith
Obama’s legacy in the Middle East: extrajudicial killings and unfinished wars
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...
Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Syria, US
March 9, 2016
New documentary draws attention to Syrian refugees in Egypt
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...
Published in: Review - Films & Documentaries, Reviews

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