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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...

30 January 2019: Saudi Arabia closes 15-month anti-corruption campaign 12 November 2018: French President Emmanuel Macron is said to have intervened in the case of two detained and forcibly disappeared...

25 January 2020: Israel police hand Al-Aqsa Sheikh Ekrima Sabri a four month ban, stopping him from entering the holy site and holding prayers there. The Imam is also called in...

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

13 November 2019: Al Jazeera reports that Egypt will allow its detained journalist Mahmoud Hussein to attend his father’s funeral, Egypt says it is part of its ‘commitment to the principles of human...

2006-Present 07 January 2019: Israel’s highest court dismisses a petition brought by Palestinian landowners, thus effectively greenlighting the state’s master plan for a major settlement in the occupied West Bank...

2016- present 13 February 2020: The student body at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) passes a resolution that calls on the university to divest from companies that...

“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...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has revealed that his country is seeking to establish a naval base in Egypt. He stressed how important this is to Russia but denied...