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Items by Jehan Alfarra
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The Road to Knesset: The rise of Naftali Bennett
Israel's parliament voted 60-59 in favour of a new government on Sunday. Ultra-nationalist Naftali Bennett will head the new cabinet. ...
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Discover Ur, Iraq
As Iraq continues to be embroiled in conflict, with decades of war and political instability fending off international visitors, it is easy to forget that this is the region where civilisation itself was born and the building blocks for the modern world were laid...
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MEMO in conversation with Samia Halaby
Watch our interview with leading Palestinian abstract artist and influential scholar Samia Halaby...
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Discover the Great Mosque of Algiers
Algeria is home to a plethora of jaw-dropping and hidden gems that showcase its long and rich history...
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Discover the Iron Ore Train, Mauritania
Make tracks for one of the world's heaviest and longest trains... ...
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Discover Mar Saba Monastery, Palestine
The Mar Saba Monastery, set half-way between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, is the oldest monastery in the Holy Land and one of the oldest continuously inhabited monasteries in the world....
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Discover the Heart of Chechnya, Russia
Ravaged by two devastating wars in the 1990s, Grozny, the capital city of the Republic of Chechnya, became known as ‘the most destroyed city on earth’....
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Tunisia's road to democracy
The Tunisian uprising spread like wildfire and millions in neighbouring Arab countries revolted against their long-time dictators, giving birth to what became known as the Arab Spring...
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Discover Wadi Rum, Jordan
Known as ‘The Valley of the Moon’, Wadi Rum spans nearly 300 square miles of terrain across the southern Jordanian desert with sweeping red sand dunes! ...
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Discover the Acropolium of Carthage, Tunisia
Today, Carthage is a wealthy suburb of the Tunisian capital Tunis where the ruins of the once-mighty ancient city have attracted tourists for decades....
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Discover Baalbek, Lebanon
One would assume that the largest Roman temple ever built would be in Rome, but it is in fact the Middle East that is home to the biggest Roman temple complex in the world. Perched atop a hill overlooking modern-day Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, Baalbek is one of the ancient world’s...
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Discover Kobe Mosque, Japan
The first mosque to be built in Japan which continues to serve as such today is Kobe Mosque...
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MEMO in conversation with Victoria Brittain
Our interview with British journalist and author Victoria Brittain about her book 'Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri'...
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Discover Dilmun Burial Mounds, Bahrain
The small island nation of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf is home to one of the world’s largest ancient cemeteries, dating back to the 4,000-year-old Dilmun civilisation....
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Discover the Malwiya Minaret of Samarra, Iraq
The Great Mosque of Samarra with its iconic Malwiya (Arabic for “twisted”) Minaret was constructed in 848–852...
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Remembering Saladin’s liberation of Jerusalem
On 2 October 1187, Ayyubid Sultan Salah Al-Din (known in the West as Saladin) liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders nearly a century after they captured the holy city from the Fatimid Caliphate...
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Discover Buyuk Han (The Great Inn), Cyprus
On the northern Turkish side of the capital lies one of the oldest Ottoman buildings in Cyprus, and it is well worth a visit....
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Sudan’s devastating floods will happen again and again without international support
Sudan’s struggling economy and healthcare sector, already crippled by the coronavirus pandemic, have been pushed to their limits in recent weeks as devastating floods, the worst in nearly a century, have swept the country. With a record rise of over 17.5 metres of the River Nile’s level triggered by...
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Discover the Old City of Sanaa, Yemen
The Old City of Sanaa is one of the oldest cities in the world. Meaning ‘fortified place’, it remains one of the greatest treasures of Arabia....
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Discover the Meroe Pyramids, Sudan
Did you know that Sudan has more twice as many pyramids than Egypt?...
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Discover Hagia Sophia, Turkey
The majestic church-turned-mosque-turned-museum, and now turned-mosque again, has stood the test of time and war for almost 1,500 years...
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Remembering the handover of ‘one Palestine, complete’
On this day in 1920, the first High Commissioner for Palestine Herbert Samuel, was handed the administration of the country by the British government and signed a receipt saying “one Palestine, complete”...
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Ramadan Under Lockdown
Ramadan 2020, which began on 24 April with the sighting of the crescent moon, has been marked by empty mosques and modest iftars within the confines of family homes....
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The fashion designer taking on Lebanon's garbage crisis
Lebanese fashion designer Roni Helou is making clothes out of sustainable, recycled materials in a bid to tackle the country's waste management crisis....
