Items by Anjuman Rahman
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- May 5, 2024 Anjuman Rahman
‘In Gaza, dying is a blessing, being wounded is a death sentence’
Canadian eye surgeon Dr Yasser Khan has volunteered twice in Gaza since October, he tells MEMO that he has seen the ‘slow genocide’ unfolding...
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- April 9, 2024 Anjuman Rahman
‘The world wants Gaza to burn, why else are they all just sitting and watching us die?’
Ahmed Suhail Al-Hattab had eagerly awaited for the month of Ramadan, anticipating the warmth of family and friends gathering for the cherished tradition of iftar – the break fast meal – at his home in Tel Al-Hawa, nestled in the southern reaches of Gaza City. For as long as he...
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- April 5, 2024 Anjuman Rahman
Gaza's children are being starved to death: MEMO in Conversation with Alexandra Saieh
This Palestinian Children's Day Israel is blocking the entry of lifesaving humanitarian aid into Gaza and starving minors to death. Charities are unable to access aid that is waiting on the other side of the border and parts of Gaza remain completely off limits to them because of the...
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- March 24, 2024 Anjuman Rahman
‘Women in Gaza are being raped and this is not being investigated or reported’
Canadian doctors volunteering in Gaza have reported women being sexually humiliated by Israeli occupation forces in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she was unable to speak, yet nothing is being done about it, Clinical Professor of Medicine Dr Aliya Khan tells MEMO....
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- February 28, 2024 Anjuman Rahman
Saving Gazans under fire: MEMO in Conversation with Dr Amgad Elsherif
Dr Amgad Elsherif left Canada to volunteer as a surgeon in Gaza, but none of the social media posts he’d seen could have prepared him for what was happening on the ground. ‘It’s 10 to 20 times worse’ than what you see online, he tells Anjuman Rahman....
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- February 1, 2024 Anjuman Rahman
'Attacks on UNRWA are about squeezing the Palestinians': MEMO in Conversation with Chris Gunness
An award winning journalist, Gunness was UNRWA spokesman between 2007 and 2020 and a BBC correspondent for 25 years. He is founder and director of the Myanmar Accountability Project, a legal initiative which brings criminal prosecutions against war criminals in the Myanmar junta....
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- January 26, 2024 Anjuman Rahman
Thank you Motaz Azaiza, for waking up a world that has long been asleep
On the 109th day of Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza, Palestinian photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza, who has been documenting the harrowing impact since the outset, finally unclasped his press vest, allowing himself a moment to breathe. With eyes lowered, a trembling breath and a hesitant smile, the exhalation seemed restrained –...
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- January 19, 2024 Anjuman Rahman
Family of missing doctor in Gaza: ‘Till now, Dr Saleh’s phone rings, but no answer. We have no clue of his whereabouts.’
'Before the soldiers came for them, he would tell us of the very difficult conditions they had to endure such as the limited food and water. There was no room to sleep. He would have to go down to the basement in the storage and lay something on the...
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- December 23, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
“Nobody wants to be living in camps, it’s a place you are forced to settle in when you have no options but to do so,” says One Young World Ambassador
In the vast expanse of the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where dreams seem to wither in the face of adversity, Deng Dak Malual’s story exemplifies resilience, education and the transformative potential within refugee communities. Originally from South Sudan, Deng Dak has spent nearly 17 years in Kakuma, navigating the...
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- December 17, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Meet the Jewish Doctor navigating the interplay of health and politics in Palestine and Israel for a brighter tomorrow
“Health, as we all know it, is political but the word politics is never used,” according to Dr Norbert Goldfield, the Jewish founder of the non-profit organisation, Healing Across the Divides (HATD), based in Northampton, US. In Palestine, this interplay between health and politics has led to catastrophic consequences. First...
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- December 11, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Zara sparks outrage with disrespectful collection amid tragedy in Gaza
Zara faces severe criticism for a campaign resembling the genocide in Gaza. The campaign, posted on Zara’s social media accounts, featured statues with missing limbs amidst a backdrop of rubble, with mannequins wrapped in shrouds. Calls to boycott Zara intensified as social media users demanded accountability for...
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- November 26, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
'Direct stories from Palestinian journalists are essential. This is their war to tell'
Representative of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS), Shuruq As'ad, says no one could tell the story of Gaza better than Palestinian journalists living there because they want to see change and humanise the Palestinian experience....
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- November 20, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Israel has yet to tell a single truth not only since 7 October, but since the 1948 Nakba
It has been more than a month since Israel launched its forceful ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza in response to the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation initiated by the Palestinian resistance. Since then, the occupying state has been repeating its fabrications and misinformation, not only to rationalise its actions in Gaza but...
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- November 10, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Gaza doctor at Indonesian Hospital: ‘Come and see, you won't find tunnels and bombs, you will only find our people dying.’
The war in Gaza has had a devastating impact on the region’s healthcare system. The ongoing Israeli attacks on hospitals, in addition to homes, shelters and schools, have been a hallmark of the war. At least 16 out of the 35 hospitals in Gaza are no longer operational, and 51...
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- October 31, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Skin diseases and head lice spread as conditions worsen in Gaza
Many of the Palestinians displaced in the Gaza Strip are taking shelter in overcrowded UN schools. A lot of them are mothers and children who left northern Gaza and Gaza City for the south due to Israel’s bombardment of residential areas. The result, said Futna Khalifa, is a “health...
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- October 20, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
'If we can hear the bombs, we are alive': MEMO in Conversation with Eman Basher
Two weeks into Israel's relentless campaign of bombing the Gaza Strip have left Eman Basher no longer able to convince her son that the lights and sounds in the sky are just fireworks and there is no reason for him to be scared. ...
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- October 12, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Gaza Special: 'A catastrophe is unfolding in Gaza' MEMO in Conversation with Aseel Safi
As the Israeli offensive against the occupied Gaza Strip enters its sixth day, reports of intense bombings of apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, and commercial establishments continue to flood in....
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- October 9, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Global response to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood
At the break of dawn on Saturday, the Gaza-based resistance initiated Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, commencing with a barrage of rockets and infiltrating towns surrounding the besieged enclave. It said the surprise attack was in response to the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem and increased Israeli settler violence. In...
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- October 6, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Israel weaponisation of water against Palestine is not just a strategic move, it is a crime against humanity
The universal human right to water, ensuring “sufficient safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses” is a principle upheld by international conventions. However, in the Occupied West Bank, this right is systematically violated through Israel’s targeted assaults on civilian water infrastructure. Just last week, Israeli...
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- October 1, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Students file complaint after US uni ‘bans Arabs’ from meeting on trip to Israel
A group of Palestinian students in the US have filed a civil rights complaint against their university for 'anti-Palestinian racism' after they protested a university trip to Israel and occupied Palestine. The students say staff at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) banned students with 'Arab-sounding names' from open...
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- September 22, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Meet Sarah Essam: An Egyptian woman and International Ambassador for Football alongside David Beckham
Sarah Essam never shied away from blazing her own trail. Even as a young child, her passion for football burned bright, defying the expectations of the girls around her who weren’t interested in the sport. At just 16, Sarah, who hails from Egypt, first made history in 2017 when she...
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- September 20, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Ahed Tamimi is a force: MEMO in conversation with Dena Takruri
For the co-author of Tamimi's autobiography, meeting the outspoken Palestinian was an emotional rollercoaster...
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- September 18, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
Fashion designer apologises after parading Saudi flag mini-skirt
Social media ignited with fury as users vented their outrage at Mowalola Ogunlesi, the brand designer behind Mowalola, for unveiling a new mini-skirt featuring the Saudi Arabian flag at London Fashion Week. During the brand’s Spring 2024 collection showcase, Ogunlesi entertained the audience with mini-skirts sporting designs of flags from...
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- September 17, 2023 Anjuman Rahman
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
When readers meet Ahed Tamimi in the electrifying opening of her new memoir, “They Called Me A Lioness”, she is only three years old, being strip-searched by Israeli prison guards in the biting cold after hours of travelling, since the crack of dawn, to be finally allowed to visit...