Items by Anjuman Rahman
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- November 27, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Yusra Mardini: The Syrian Olympic athlete who swam for three hours to save lives
The Swimmers is a new film based on the story of two Syrian sisters that literally swam to Europe as war refugees...
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- November 8, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Meet the Egyptian photographer who is at home among the wildlife in Kenya
For close to 300 days a year, Abdelrahman Hassanein’s workmates are lions, cheetahs, buffalo and elephants. Not for him a desk, computer and colleagues engaged in mundane work. Instead, the 39-year-old Egyptian naturalist and wildlife photographer, is the safari director at Talek Bush Camp in Kenya, and usually keeps...
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- October 24, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
‘We will stay here until Palestine is free,’ says farmer beaten by Jewish settlers
Last month, a 51-year-old Palestinian farmer was tending to his family land on the outskirts of the village of At-Tuwani, where they grow olives, figs, tomatoes and zucchini. A group of five masked Israeli settlers, armed with MI6 rifles, bats and metal pipes, emerged suddenly from the nearby illegal...
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- October 14, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Liz Truss is following in Trump’s footsteps, but more boldly and blindly
In just less than a month after she became Britain’s newly appointed Prime Minister, Liz Truss declared her unwavering support for Israel. At a Conservative Friends of Israel event in Birmingham, Truss, in the boldest terms, proclaimed herself as “a huge Zionist and huge supporter of Israel” and pledged that...
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- October 9, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
‘In Middle Eastern culture, food and hospitality are a love language’
Syrian-American Ahmad Alzahabi has turned the skills he learnt helping his mum make family dinners into recipes that followers can use to discover their own palette ...
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- October 2, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear defies order and structure. It is a staggeringly diverse collection and as deep, heavy and haunting as the very days Israel rains down bombs and drones on Gaza. Some of Mosab Abu Toha’s subjects in this recently published poetry collection are vast...
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- September 20, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Rachel Corrie wanted to ensure she could always return to Gaza, says her mother. ‘In a way, she never left’
The murder of 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie on 16 March 2003 started a global conversation about how Israel gets away with its terrorism against civilians and human rights defenders in the occupied Palestinian territories. Nineteen years later, Israel is still denying Rachel’s family justice and any sign of accountability...
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- September 5, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
How many times must Gaza be rebuilt, to be bombed again?
Israel is infamous for bombing the innocent in the Gaza Strip. During Israel’s latest three-day military offensive against the besieged enclave on 5 August, 49 people, including 17 children and four women were killed. Israeli air and artillery strikes also struck various targets across Gaza that it claimed belonged to...
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- September 4, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Reclaiming humanity in Palestinian hunger strikes: Revolutionary subjectivity and decolonizing the body
The deployment of the physical body into a site of struggle and resistance remains one of the most poignant and controversial methods of protest. Due to its tremendous toll, practising hunger strikes have always provoked extreme reactions, from bitter irony to deepest admiration. In just a matter of days, physical...
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- August 21, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
‘Fear must be used as motivation to keep moving forward’, says first Arab woman to summit K2
Lebanese Nelly Attar was driven by the memory of her father to reach the top to the world’s second highest and most deadly peak, K2...
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- August 7, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
The Chinese gov’t arrested my Uyghur husband, jailed him for 25 years for visiting Turkiye
Every now and then, the world is fed a dizzying kaleidoscope of tormenting Uyghur accounts. There are millions. In May, the BBC published a damning report proving up to 1.2 million Uyghur Muslims have been detained and mistreated “not for what they’ve done but for who they are”. A catalogue of...
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- July 10, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
‘International impunity is the backbone of Israel's occupation,’ says rights group
Every year, Defense for Children International - Palestine collects hundreds of statements from Palestinian children who were arrested and subjected to long periods of interrogation without the presence of a parent, guardian or lawyer, and Israel is never held to account for these abuses, its director tells MEMO. ...
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- June 26, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
‘We can use the power and beauty of music against colonial forces,’ says Palestinian-Japanese soprano
When asked what has been the most exciting international appearance, Palestinian-Japanese soprano, Mariam Tamari, quipped that there was nothing like performing with her fellow Palestinian musicians. “We work with the unspoken understanding that music is our intifada, and that urgency, that longing, our shared visions of liberation course through the...
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- June 10, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
The Palestinian flag will be raised and waved in all corners of the world
The colonial-settler state of Israel has stolen more than three-quarters of Palestine and the mass thefts of land by Zionist militias are still ongoing. As if occupying Palestinian land wasn’t enough, Israel also appropriates Palestinian culture by claiming hummus and couscous as “Israeli” dishes and hosting beauty pageants that misrepresent...
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- June 8, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Hollywood's Mark Ruffalo praised for calling out PayPal’s discrimination against Palestinians
Hollywood A-lister, Mark Ruffalo, has called out PayPal Holdings for its discrimination against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, who are denied access to its digital payment platform. A vocal critic of Israel’s apartheid against Palestine, he wrote on Twitter: “Friends: PayPal operates in Israel’s illegal...
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- June 5, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Palestinians with links to the PA are becoming billionaires while the rest are living in poverty, rights activist says
Director of the Bisan Centre for Research and Development Ubai Al-Aboudi talks to MEMO about the group’s designation as a terror group by Israel and its work to highlight injustices at the hands of the occupation and within Palestinian society...
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- May 17, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
The pro-Israel lobby is colonising British academia with one smear campaign after another
Pro-Israel groups and lawmakers are orchestrating a politically motivated smear campaign against the recently elected President of the National Union of Students (NUS), Shaima Dallali. As part of this campaign, aggressive Zionist groups, including the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), published an open letter expressing concern about a social...
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- May 1, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Female engineer: ‘We can take Palestine to space and beyond’
When Bayan Abu Salameh enrolled in a mechanical engineering degree, she was one of only four women in an intake of more than 70 students at Birzeit University, north of Ramallah. Her career choice had previously encountered doubts among her schoolteachers and peers, who questioned whether it was suitable for...
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- April 21, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Palestinians are #not_budging from Al-Aqsa
Pictures of Palestinian worshippers staring down Israeli occupation forces during raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque while also looking bemused amid mass incursions by groups of illegal Jewish settlers in the occupied East Jerusalem have gone viral on social media. The defiant look in a young Palestinians woman’s eyes as she stares...
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- April 17, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Afro-Palestinians face ‘double the harassment and double the racism’
Nisreen Salem is an Afro-Palestinian from Egypt who has been mocked due to her skin colour and hair for most of her young life. The 25 year old is one of at least 400 Afro-Palestinians from Nigeria, Egypt, Chad, Senegal and Sudan who live within the walls of occupied...
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- April 4, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Meet the Syrian refugees shaking up the British halloumi industry
Raghid Sandouk escaped from his home in Damascus and brought his wife and three children to safety in Britain. “We never thought of living in the UK,” he told me. “Leaving was not an easy decision to make.” However, a car bomb outside his office left him with little...
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- March 20, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
‘The world doesn’t care when the victims are Palestinians, they will keep selling weapons to Israel,’ says activist
It was during the late afternoon hours of 29 September 2021 when Basel Al-Adra was being chased by a group of masked Israeli settlers with bats and rocks. They were screaming racist slurs. A few minutes earlier, the journalist and activist had been recording a mob of almost 80 to...
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- March 7, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Cooking helps them through the crisis days in Gaza, say the founders of its first cookery school
The spicy aroma and pots bubbling away are part of the daily routine that helps to see Nour Al-Batta and her husband Ahmed Taha through the crisis days in the besieged Gaza Strip. Moreover, they help other Palestinians too. As the founders of Smile Kitchen Culinary Arts Academy in 2017,...
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- February 24, 2022 Anjuman Rahman
Disabled, underage or critically-ill in hospital, Israel soldiers’ abuse with no limits
Al-Ajlouni, 25, suffered from a state of shock, as well as severe pain in the neck and shoulders following his abuse at the hands of the Israeli officers....