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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 "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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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....

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...

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,...

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...