Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed, on Friday, to re-establish relations after a seven-year diplomatic rupture, according to a statement issued by Iran, Saudi Arabia and China, Reuters reports. Here are key...

The Egyptian Medical Syndicate revealed the resignation of 11,536 doctors from working in the government sector from the beginning of 2019 until last March 2020, which is considered a continuation of...

Whitehall is still reverberating from the Hancock affair. It was not the first, and it certainly will not be the last time that a politician gets caught out publicly....

The British government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has issued a statement in response to a petition calling for sanctions to be imposed on Israel. The statement ignores the...

As Israel continues to bomb civilians in the Gaza Strip, a relatively unacknowledged workforce keeps its collective head down in the struggle to maintain social services for vulnerable Palestinians....

Britain must act now to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in the war in Yemen, amid new evidence published by the US CIA report on Jamal...

The Biden administration in Washington is set to declassify an intelligence report which could be a vital step in the search for accountability over the murder of respected journalist...

The extent of the damage caused by Saudi Arabia's ongoing war in Yemen has been catastrophic, with innocent civilians bearing the brunt of this brutality. Last year alone there...

The authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested two Uyghur Muslims who face persecution and torture if they are deported to China. Such a move by the Saudis would be...

Two years since the brutal death of respected journalist Jamal Khashoggi, why has Saudi Arabia still not been held to account? Khashoggi, a veteran journalist from Saudi Arabia, was last...

Ali Howaidi is a member of the Preparatory Committee of the International Campaign for Preserving Palestinian Identity which is launching next month. MEMO spoke to him over the telephone...

In principle, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia this week should end with a return to normal relations between its six-member states. That's why the invitation extended by Saudi Arabia's King Salman...

Saudi Crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman has admitted responsibility over respected journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder in a PBS documentary that is due to be aired next week. Frustratingly, despite...

On 1 November 2016, some 25-30 masked men in uniform raided the home of Hemeda Ali Hemeda and arrested his son Kareem. For 42 days, Kareem's family did not...

Kicking off Israeli Apartheid Week, pro-Palestine students at one of the most prestigious universities in London claim they were barred from campus during the Queen's visit. At least ten...

Palestinian activist Issa Amro tells MEMO about his experiences of being arrested by Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and his thoughts on the upcoming court case brought against him by...

Saudi Arabia was one of a number of countries whose head of state failed to attend the extraordinary summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held in Istanbul...

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Guests included Lord Paddy Ashdown, Jack Straw and Clare Short

Middle East Monitor is to host an event on the recent political events in Saudi Arabia. The programme will take place on Saturday, 18 November, in Central London. The...

The United Arab Emirates is working to influence the narrative on Islam in the West, leaked emails sent by UAE Ambassador to the US Yousef Al-Otaiba, have revealed. The...

28 December 2020: Saudi invited Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to join the GCC Summit in January in what analysts believe is sign that the Gulf crisis may be coming...

30 May 2023: Scores of settlers storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound escorted by extremist Israeli Jewish Rabbi Yehuda Glick 05 Apr 2023: Israel released most of the Palestinian worshippers detained at Al-Aqsa...

MEMO interviews the director of 'Fire on the Marmara', a documentary film exploring the tragedy of the Mavi Marmara

16 May 2023: Bahrain and Qatar announced that direct flights will operate between the two countries from 25 May 12 April 2023: Qatar and Bahrain agree to restore their diplomatic relations,...

2006-Present 21 July 2022: Israel's Supreme Court rules that Palestinians can be stripped of their Israeli citizenship if they are found to be in 'breach of loyalty', even if the move...

On 9 July 2005 171 Palestinian civil society groups adopted a call to boycott, divest and sanction Israel for its violations of international law. The BDS movement calls for Israel to fully withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories dismantle the illegal Separation Wall in the West Bank provide full legal and political equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel and recognise the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes they were forced out of in 1948

"Before the war, Syria was an 'open' country. We could move around and live. I never travelled internationally but we knew that we could visit neighbouring countries like Lebanon...

Yiftah Curiel recently penned an article where he named Middle East Monitor as one of “two UK websites” upon which “Hamas relies”

With electricity supplies in Gaza restricted to between 2-8 hours a day in most areas, the coast's cool breeze offers a place to escape the stifling summer heat in cramped apartments

Although a coastal city, Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip is known as an agricultural area. Today, with all export opportunities shut down and borders closed, the agricultural...

Middle East Monitor spoke to Soumaya Ghannoushi, columnist and daughter of Rached Ghannouchi, Tunisia's Ennahda party leader, about the group's recent decision to separate politics from religion. MEMO: Ennahda's...