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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...

02 October 2018:Canada-based research group Citizen Lab reveals that Saudi Arabia is using Israeli software to eavesdrop on 27-year-old Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz 01 October 2018: Saudi Arabia faces a...

14 October 2018: 59 settlers storm Al-Aqsa, including 13 stewards who were guiding the group 10 October 2018: 101 settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of occupation forces 02 October...

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

21 August 2018: The Premier League threatens Saudi with legal action to protect its intellectual property after it collects evidence that prove one of the Kingdom’s channels has been...

2006-Present 14 October 2018: Israel approved a $6m budget to build a new illegal settlement in occupied Hebron in an effort to increase the settler presence in the city...

2016- present 11 October 2018: Israel orders two New Zealand activists to pay 45,000 shekels ($12,000) in damages for persuading pop-star Lorde to cancel her concert in Tel Aviv 10...

“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...