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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 17, 2020 | Amelia Smith

COVID-19 is exacerbating neo-colonialism, including in Egypt

As the number of medical staff testing positive for COVID-19 continues to climb, hospitals have closed their doors across the country

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Coronavirus, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, UK, US, Videos & Photo Stories
April 8, 2020 | Amelia Smith | Laila Ahmet

Um Ibrahim: 'My son should be playing with his friends, not in an Egyptian prison'

When Ibrahim was arrested it was a summer's day in Arish, the capital of North Sinai, and he was wearing a light t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Two...

Published in: Africa, Coronavirus, Egypt, Interviews
March 8, 2020 | Amelia Smith | Osama Gaweesh

In Egypt, only Asian tourists get tested for coronavirus

When Bill Jones* and his partner arrived at Luxor Airport to prepare to fly back to Cairo at the end of February, it was the end of a two-week...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, China, Coronavirus, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, UK
February 25, 2020 | Amelia Smith

Mubarak dies at 91 but his legacy lives on: Corruption, impunity, brutality

When former President Hosni Mubarak was acquitted of corruption in January 2015, analysts had already predicted it as a foregone conclusion. For many it was evidence that the deep...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Opinion
February 9, 2020 | Amelia Smith

Operation Sinai: Egypt's ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin

Everything you need to know about Egypt’s ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Flashpoint, Videos & Photo Stories
February 9, 2020 | Amelia Smith

The US bought Sisi for $9bn, but the Egyptian people cannot be swayed

When Trump announced Jerusalem was Israel's undivided capital under his so-called "deal of the century", the Egyptian public questioned whether Al-Sisi had a hand in preparing the plan. His...

Published in: Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US, Videos & Photo Stories
January 31, 2020 | Amelia Smith

The host of Sisi's 'peace award' has withdrawn. With the right pressure others may follow

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received the German Order of St. George in recognition of his peace-making efforts in North Africa

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Germany, International Organisations, Opinion, UN, Videos & Photo Stories
January 25, 2020 | Amelia Smith | Laila Ahmet

Egypt's sex attacks on women are revenge for the 2011 revolution

The first time Sara Mohani was arrested security forces lined her up against a wall and described her body in intimate detail. "If we find any photo of the...

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews
January 14, 2020 | Amelia Smith

Egypt's military exercise is a warning to protesters ahead of the January 25 Revolution anniversary

Last week Egypt launched “Qader 2020”, a military display of ground, naval and air units choreographed to demonstrate the strength of the country’s armed forces

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Opinion, Turkey, Videos & Photo Stories
December 20, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Céline Lebrun-Shaath: 'Ramy's arrest is an attack on solidarity with Palestine'

When former Egyptian MP Ziad Al-Alimi was arrested by security forces, Ramy Shaath told his wife that of the coalition of activists that organised the 2011 protests against Hosni...

Published in: Africa, BDS, Egypt, Europe & Russia, France, International Organisations, Interviews, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
December 5, 2019 | Amelia Smith

No need to look to the Middle East, we have a dictator in the making here in the UK

In the midst of the 2011 uprising then newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman said that Egyptians were not ready for democracy. Such comments were to be expected from...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UK
November 26, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Mohamed Ali: 'No shop can compete with the army because they don't pay tax'

The Egyptian army did not have to pay tax or customs on products entering the country which made it impossible for other businesses to compete

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Videos & Photo Stories
November 22, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Egypt whistleblower: Torture chambers were small projects I didn't work on

Egyptian whistleblower Mohamed Ali told MEMO that he built the part of the intelligence headquarters where the cyber army was housed

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Videos & Photo Stories
November 21, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Mohamed Ali: 'Constructing prisons is a very lucrative business'

MEMO exclusive interview with Mohamed Ali

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Videos & Photo Stories
November 15, 2019 | Amelia Smith

'I haven't seen them in over seven months', says mother of 3 children abducted to Lebanon

On the weekend of Khawla Khalifa's birthday it was her ex-husband's turn with their three kids. He picked them up after school on Friday and she was expecting them...

Published in: Asia & Americas, Canada, Interviews, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, UAE
October 14, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Palestinian Cinema in the Days of the Revolution

From the late sixties up until the early eighties Palestinians formed a resistance movement to liberate their homeland and ensure the return of their refugees. A vital part of...

Published in: Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Review - Books, Reviews
October 11, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Egypt-Lebanon artist: 'Mahmoud Darwish would have been inspired by the Arab Spring'

During the 2011 Egyptian revolution Bahia Shehab sprayed "no" in Arabic 1,000 times on the walls of downtown Cairo. No to dictators, no to military rule, no to violence....

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Lebanon, Middle East, UK
September 27, 2019 | Laila Ahmet | Amelia Smith

Massaad Abu Fager: 'I call on Egyptians to continue to demonstrate'

Shortly after the profile of a well-known Sinai activist appeared in an Egyptian newspaper, the intelligence services called the journalist who interviewed him: "Why have you published a picture...

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Israel, Palestine
August 24, 2019 | Laila Ahmet | Amelia Smith

At 14 Haitham was one of Egypt's youngest political prisoners: 'They forgot I was a child'

Four years on from his arrest one of Egypt’s child political prisoners Haitham Abdel Rahim recalls 50 days of torture.

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, UN
August 14, 2019 | Laila Ahmet | Amelia Smith

Husband and son in prison. Daughter shot in Rabaa. Asmaa Beltagi's mum speaks on the massacre

Sanaa Abdelgawad and her daughter Asmaa Beltagi were in front of Rabaa's main stage when security forces advanced on the square. The area was immersed in smoke and Sanaa...

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Interviews, Turkey, Videos & Photo Stories
August 7, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Under the war on terror Egypt is ethnically cleansing the Sinai Bedouin

Last month the Egyptian government demolished Bedouin-owned houses in Tarabin village in South Sinai on the grounds that they were not “legally” owned

Published in: Africa, Article, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Middle East, Opinion, Videos & Photo Stories
July 22, 2019 | Amelia Smith

North Sinai: Creating a new Egypt in Sisi's image

In the heart of Al-Arish, the capital of the North Sinai Governorate, Metito is building a desalination plant at the cost of $96 million. The water group, which is...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine, US
July 17, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Sink Without a Trace: 'Balancing politics and aesthetics'

An exhibition in London shone a light on the loss of life which results from people being forced to risk their lives to survive

Published in: Africa, Europe & Russia, Libya, Middle East, Review - Events & Articles, Reviews, Syria, UK
July 4, 2019 | Amelia Smith

International bodies condemn the Libya air strike, but they have failed the country

Late last night the UN failed to agree on a statement condemning an air strike which killed 44 refugees in a detention centre in Libya because the US ambassador...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, EU, International Organisations, Libya, Opinion, UN
July 2, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Egypt 'ambassador of poor' released, rearrested and denied family visits

Before she was arrested Somaya Nasef spent her time walking the streets of Cairo looking for medicine to administer to street children. Essential drugs like insulin and penicillin have...

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews, Middle East, Qatar
June 28, 2019 | Laila Ahmet | Amelia Smith

Forced out by the Crown Prince's reforms, a wave of Egyptians arrive in Turkey

In 2008 Mariam Ahmed and her family set off east from her homeland Egypt and landed in Saudi Arabia where they became part of the Kingdom's two million strong...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yemen
June 24, 2019 | Amelia Smith

UK arms deals gave Egypt the legitimacy it needed to kill Morsi

In 2018 a cross-party group of British MPs asked the Egyptian government for access to Mohamed Morsi amid fears that the former President's death was imminent. The answer that...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, EU, Opinion, UK
June 18, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Obituary: Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first, democratic president

It was at a retrial for colluding with Hamas yesterday that the Brotherhood leader collapsed in his sound proof box and was transferred to hospital

Published in: Africa, Asia & Americas, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Profiles, US, Videos & Photo Stories
June 13, 2019 | Amelia Smith

As Egypt starves, Sisi stirs horror in Libya and Sudan

In a recent Foreign Policy article Brotherhood member Yehia Hamed forecast that Egypt will soon be bankrupt if it continues in the same vein. External debt has increased fivefold...

Published in: Africa, Article, Egypt, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, UAE
June 7, 2019 | Amelia Smith | Laila Ahmet

Egypt family face 'severe breakdown' at son's impending execution

In March 2015 masked men broke down the door of Khaled Saddouma's house, entered his son's bedroom where he was sleeping and dragged him out of the house without...

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews
June 3, 2019 | Amelia Smith

Far-right terror is on the rise. So why is Trump in the UK?

The UK's first female Prime Minister in 26 years – only the second in our history – has chosen as her farewell performance to welcome the right-wing President of...

Published in: Asia & Americas, Blog, Europe & Russia, Middle East, Opinion, Saudi Arabia, UK, US, Yemen
June 3, 2019 | Amelia Smith | Laila Ahmet

Egypt forcibly disappears baby from his home in Alexandria

On 9 March Manar Abu Naga was forcibly disappeared from her home in Alexandria along with her husband Omar and their one-year-old son Braa. "One of the neighbours told...

Published in: Africa, Egypt, Interviews

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