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The images above are screenshots of the video game, "1979 Revolution: Black Friday". It's 1978 in Iran. The Iranian Revolution that will eventually unseat the US-backed Shah and change the...
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In April, the French and British foreign ministers visited Tripoli to show support for Libya's UN-backed unity government. France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault urged Libya's neighbours to get behind...
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It's 2012 and Hisham Matar waits anxiously with his wife and mother in the departures lounge of Cairo International airport. They are bound for Libya. It has been thirty...
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On Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon finished his farewell trip to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. He is due to step down in December and used the...
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A mushroom farm in Jericho, an heirloom seed library, a project to introduce Kale to the Palestinian market and a local farmers' cooperative – these small agricultural projects are...
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This weekend marked the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. We take a look at sexual violence in Iraq and Syria as the conflicts in...
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During the Iraq invasion and war, its aftermath and the subsequent protests against the US-installed government, Fallujah and its residents have paid a heavy price. As the Iraqi government...
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Last week, 17-year-old Mayar Mohamed Mousa and her twin sister were admitted into a private clinic in Egypt's Suez province for a life-changing procedure. While under anesthetic, Mayer suffered...
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Israel's new Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman is a controversial figure. He recently attended a court case in support of a soldier caught on camera executing a wounded Palestinian and...
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"No one has put the Palestinian experience in visual terms so austerely and yet so playfully, so compellingly and at the same moment so allusively," Edward Said on Mona...
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Today in London a new report entitled The Israel lobby and the European Union is being released. Researched and written by Public Interest Investigations and Spinwatch and published by EuroPal Forum,...
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Russia's renowned Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra took to the stage on Thursday. They were not performing in their usual setting, the grandiose of Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, but on...
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The response of the likes of Conservative Mayor of London Boris Johnson to Labour’s anti-Semitism row highlights that the party is not beyond religious-based discrimination
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On Sunday, US secretary of state John Kerry announced that a "provisional agreement" on the terms of a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria had been reached between the US...
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In Luton, school boy Rahmaan Mohammadi was questioned for wearing a “Free Palestine” badge to class and carrying a leaflet advocating Palestinian rights by pressure group Friends of al-Aqsa- a...
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Today Britain marks the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps. We remember Britain's response to the Jewish refugees and look at...
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A new UN-backed Libyan government was unveiled earlier this week. It is the result of over a years worth of mediation on the part of the United Nations in...
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This is the second article of a three part series examining the Syrian revolution and the five years that followed it. Part I looks at the beginnings of the...
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This is the first article of a three part series examining the Syrian revolution and the five years that followed it. Part II looks at the decline of the...
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Ibrahim owned a shop located near several security and intelligence offices in the Syrian town of Deraa. He was arrested there on three separate occasions simply because of his...
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Normally around this time in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, Christmas festivities are in full swing. This year, however, the municipalities decided to tone down their public Christmas...
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John Kerry has branded the members of Daesh as psychopathic monsters; François Hollande calls them barbarians; and David Cameron describes them as a death cult. Simultaneously, they have been...
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On Wednesday, British MP’s voted overwhelmingly in favour of Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposal to extend airstrikes into Syria. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn vehemently opposed the proposal, claiming that...
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November 29 marked International Day of Women Human Rights Defenders, here MEMO remembers some of the female activists who have paid heavily this year for their dedication to human...
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There are many examples of Israel committing war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The UN has said that the building of settlements in the territories contravenes international law...
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In revenge for last week’s terrorist attack in Paris, the French air force dropped 20 bombs in one night on the Syrian city of Raqqa. It may well be...
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When Rania Bakara, Palestine’s only female police detective in the northern West Bank, discovers the body of a foreign woman in fields near her village, no one seems to...
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Human rights groups and non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) have expressed concern over a new bill that imposes several requirements and restrictions on Israeli NGOs that receive international funding. Proposed on...
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Born in Arrabeh, north of Nazareth in the Galilee, Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh is his village's first Western-trained physician. His profession gives him intimate access to his neighbour's lives....
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Set up under the 1993 Oslo Accords, security coordination involves the sharing of intelligence between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The PA was also established under Oslo. Before the...
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The video above captured the moment that six Israeli soldiers stormed an East Jerusalem grocery store and arrested a Palestinian boy. Shortly after the boy walked into the store,...
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Things are continuing to hot up at one of the most explosive holy sites in the world. Israeli claims to the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa, in the heart of...