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Items by Muhammad Hussein
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Between a dictator and a failed UN, post-earthquake Syria resembles its revolution: isolated and abandoned
There are few tragedies in the world for which the responsibility can be deflected away from politics and human fault. This week’s earthquake in Turkiye and Syria was one of those, and has resulted in a flurry of devastation – over 20,000 deaths so far, destroyed homes, huge infrastructure...
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The world is heading towards CBDCs: the inevitable future of finance or new form of dystopian control?
It is the unfortunate – or fortunate, depending on one’s propensity to autocracy – nature of every decentralised system in this modern age to become centralised under the scope of governmental regulation or private sector control. That has been true for taxation, data, health and safety legislation, construction permission...
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Using NATO membership as leverage, Turkiye is giving the EU a taste of its own medicine
Turkiye has surprised many policymakers and analysts over the past decade with its diplomatic prominence, soft power projection and hard power in the form of drones and other advances in weaponry. During this time of its expansion across the world stage – despite its largely shrunken economy – it...
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MEMO launches ‘The JNF/KKL: A Charity Complicit With Ethnic Cleansing’ by Dr Uri Davis
Davis highlights how the JNF has used setting up parks and planting trees to erase Palestinian villages and forms part of Israel's apartheid regime ...
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Partition, regime change, and geopolitical rivalry: What does 2023 hold for the Middle East?
As the year of 2022 comes to an end, the usual spate of predictions for the incoming year are espoused by many. That includes, it seems, Russia’s Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, who predicted on Twitter – either mockingly or seriously, or perhaps both – a number of...
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Files are cleaning house, but what other secrets remain?
When social media solidified itself into the collective consciousness of technology users in the first decade of this century, it was increasingly looking like a revolutionary tool and saviour for billions worldwide. That was not only because one could see what their friends were doing or baking, but because...
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Zionists have captured Jordan Peterson and are hijacking western conservatism
Jordan Peterson has long been a controversial figure, subject to attempts to suppress him from various sides. Much of that controversy is not wholly negative: his stand against Canada’s Bill C-16 – which obligates the use of Trans individuals’ pronouns in a clear example of compelled speech – was...
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Entrapment is the tool of the Western intelligence matrix to criminalise Muslim communities
There are countless stereotypes and tropes found throughout popular culture, movie productions and social media. One of those is that of undercover police or intelligence agents who famously tend to consist of well-built white men donned in disguises that are overly civilian with a tactical hint – usually with...
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As climate elitists plunge us into darkness, Saudi Arabia gets the blame
In many ways, the COP27 climate conference being held in Egypt is a cruel but necessary irony. The tyranny of the host government — the sweeping arrests, arbitrary checking of citizens’ mobile phones at road checkpoints, and a further crackdown on freedom of expression — makes it look even...
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Winners of Palestine Book Awards 2022 announced
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event...
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Palestine Book Awards shortlisted authors presented in London event
MEMO hosted an informal event at London’s P21 Gallery last night ahead of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) in recognition of authors and their contribution to literature on the subject of Palestine. For the 11th PBA – held in person for the first time since 2019 after the...
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Remembering the Suez Crisis and the tripartite invasion of Egypt
What: The invasion of Egypt and the occupation of the area around the Suez Canal by a tripartite alliance of British, French and Israeli forces. Where: Suez Canal, Egypt When: 29 October, 1956 – March, 1957 What happened? Following World War Two and the resetting of the roles of the colonial powers, the...
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Rishi Sunak is anything but a radical, anti-colonial figure
Anyone determined or patriotic enough to make a list of groundbreaking episodes in Britain’s long history is likely to add Rishi Sunak’s appointment as prime minister to it. Seeing a person of South Asian descent calling the shots in 10, Downing Street is undoubtedly one of those “I remember...
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Moving its Embassy to Jerusalem could kill Britain’s remaining global influence
Since the ascension of America and its aggressive foreign policies throughout the world, both laymen and analysts have mocked Britain for being a shadow of its former self. Its legacy in global affairs, after all, is far-reaching, and that is especially true for its controversial legacy in the Middle...
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Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organisation
Human rights, in itself, have long been a contentious industry, developing over the decades and adapting to particular regions and surroundings. It is no different in Palestine, and perhaps even more so under the ongoing Israeli occupation, which remains one of the greatest focuses for human rights work in...
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Britain must crack down on Hindutva extremism, or expect more intercommunity conflict
If any month in 2022 succeeded in further uniting far-right extremists in Europe, Israel and India in a herd mentality, it would be September, when the English city of Leicester witnessed clashes between young Hindu and Muslim men following a series of attacks against the Muslim community by hundreds...
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If the West is not careful, Russia will make the Balkans a second front
This month has likely been the most crushing for Russia since it launched its invasion of Ukraine almost seven months ago. In an aggressive counter-offensive operation, Ukrainian forces recaptured the cities of Kharkiv and Kupiansk, reportedly retaking 3,000 square kilometres of territory rapidly, and driving out Russian forces. Aside...
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The totalitarian dream: Gulf and Israeli surveillance is going global
It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian regime to oversee the doings of all of their subjects, to detect any hint of dissent, to control their movements, to influence their thinking and even to peer into their minds. That dream has...
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As Turkiye moves to reconcile with Assad, the Middle East’s opposition movements now are left homeless
After a decade of support for the Syrian revolution and opposition, Turkiye seems to be having a change of heart. Over the course of 2022, there mysteriously emerged reports claiming that – in no official terms – the Turkish government may soon restore its ties with the Syrian regime...
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Israel will use the Kurds as a tool, yet Turkiye still normalised relations
When it was revealed last month that Israel had requested the United States to prevent a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria, it served as a necessary reminder that Tel Aviv’s role in Syria is not limited simply to conducting drone strikes on Syrian regime and Iranian targets...
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In their hope for a ‘Middle Eastern NATO’ against Iran, Israel and the US may end up heartbroken
As Arab states the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco began establishing ties with Israel over the past few years and warmed towards their old adversary, many saw it as the beginning of a new era. And in some ways, it was: trade could now openly flow...
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As the West commits energy suicide in its green transition, it exploits the Gulf
US President Joe Biden’s Middle East tour was muddled from the start, and his administration’s regional policy was criticised by analysts for lacking clarity and direction. The results of the trip were equally disappointing, producing no great announcement to change the course of Washington’s relations with its Middle East...
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The Motawif chaos at Hajj reveals the flaw in Saudi Arabia’s centralisation strategy
It is difficult to recall a time in the lives of current and surviving generations where the Hajj pilgrimage was made so chaotic and unstable as it was this year. Over the past month, decades of status quo in the Hajj arrangement process were overturned when Saudi Arabia’s government...
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Israel attacked the USS Liberty in 1967; when will Washington put its special relationship aside?
Fifty-five years ago this month, Israel declared war on the United States of America. Unofficially and not in so many words, of course, but what else can it be called when Israeli armed forces launched a two hour sustained attack on a clearly marked US Navy ship in the...
