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March 22, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
The Middle East has been in turmoil for decades, with conflicts often fuelled by historic rivalries, sectarianism and geopolitical interests. However, in recent months, there have been some significant...
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March 1, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
North Africa was once known as the "breadbasket" due to its favourable climate and significant arable land along the Mediterranean coast. This was especially true at the time of...
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February 19, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
Social media reactions to unveiled plans to build a large cube-shaped structure as part of a re-development project in the capital, Riyadh’s city centre
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February 15, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
Iran celebrated the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Saturday, with mass rallies held in towns and cities across the country, including the capital Tehran, where participants converged...
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February 5, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
Experts and activists from across the world addressed digital censorship the origins of Zionism and how Israel enforces apartheid
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February 1, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
Written over 2,000 years ago, Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu stated in The Art of War that "Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of...
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January 13, 2023
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Omar Ahmed
Last week, the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup kicked off in Iraq for the first time in 44 years, with Basra serving as the host city for the regional biennial...
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December 29, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The JNF/KKL: A Charity Complicit with Ethnic Cleansing by academic and civil rights activist Dr Uri Davis is the latest offering by MEMO Publishers and brings to light the...
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December 19, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Despite facing an unprecedented scale of criticism and calls for boycotts, months before a ball had been kicked, the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar has been a success....
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December 12, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
12 December 1098 the Crusader siege of Ma'arrat Al-Numan came to a gruesome end. A European army led by a knight named Raymond Pilet D'Ales entered the city after its surrender and a massacre ensued
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November 28, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Tensions are set to rise between the US and Iran, not only in the political realm but also on the football pitch ahead of tomorrow's much-anticipated encounter at the...
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November 17, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The advent of Turkiye's Bayraktar TB2 combat drone has undeniably propelled the country to superpower status, at least when it comes to the manufacture and supply of unmanned aerial...
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October 27, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The devastating war in Yemen has been raging for eight years, and with the recent expiry of a UN-brokered truce, conflict between the warring parties remains unlikely to end...
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October 16, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Sharing a very personal account of his own incarceration at the hands of the Israeli occupation authorities, MEMO's Palestinian political cartoonist, Mohammad Sabaaneh, offers us a glimpse into this...
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October 10, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Since July 2022 after President Abelmadijd Tebboune told reporters French was a 'war booty' language while English was an international one educational authorities scrambled to change the curriculum
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October 3, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The South Caucasus is no stranger to outside powers competing for influence and advancing their own interests. During the Cold War, for example, the region was on the front...
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September 11, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Of the 12 official Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Ain El-Hilweh ('Ayn Al-Hilwe) is the largest in both area and population and is known among its 33,000 or so...
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September 6, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Saudi Arabia's The Line has been lauded as the world's most futuristic city plan, and for good reason. The vertical, walled smart city will run entirely on renewable energy...
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August 17, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The situation in Lebanon contains the main ingredients for another popular uprising: the dire economic and financial crisis; worsening food and fuel shortages; rampant corruption; and growing public disdain...
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August 8, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
It is common knowledge that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) resistance movement maintains the strongest links with Iran and is ideologically closer to the Islamic Republic compared with the...
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August 2, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The concept of martyrdom is one that is shared by all three Abrahamic faiths and one which, by the time of the advent of Islam, was understood firmly by...
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July 21, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Despite being at the forefront of states determined to see the overthrow of the Syrian government by throwing its weight behind armed opposition factions over a decade ago, Turkey...
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July 4, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Israel may not immediately spring to mind when thinking about England's Manchester United Football Club, yet in terms of inconsistent leadership the self-declared Jewish state appears to be following...
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June 16, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
We are so used to hearing the R-word being used to describe adversarial or hostile states to the US and collective West
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June 13, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Over the weekend Indian authorities bulldozed several homes belonging to Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). The homeowners were alleged to have taken part in organised...
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June 1, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Last week, Iraq's Parliament passed a new law criminalising normalisation with Israel, becoming the first Arab country to formally ban normalisation with Israel. The motion was described in a...
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May 27, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
As the sole Lebanese armed faction from the country's civil war implicitly allowed to retain its arsenal in accordance with the 1989 Taif Accord that ended the conflict, the...
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May 16, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
On Wednesday the Iraqi Council of Representatives approved, in the first reading, a draft bill banning normalisation of ties with Israel. If passed, it will make Iraq the first...
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Following Thursday's axe and knife attack in the illegal Israeli settlement of Elad which killed three settlers, there have been calls from Israel's security establishment and media for a...
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After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI Yemen was divided with the north and south forming separate countries
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April 20, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Yemen's newly-formed Presidential Leadership Council was sworn in on Tuesday before parliament in Aden. The southern port city has served as the internationally-recognised government's interim capital since March 2015,...
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April 14, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The US and British governments denied their roles in the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, for decades. Although western complicity in the toppling of...
![Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani (R), Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (C) and Musaid Al Aiban, the Saudi Arabia's national security adviser, pose for a photo after Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic ties after several days of deliberations in Beijing, China on 10 March 2023 [Chinese Foreign Ministry]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/pic-from-CHINESE-FOREIGN-MINISTRY-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Middle East has been in turmoil for decades, with conflicts often fuelled by historic rivalries, sectarianism and geopolitical interests. However, in recent months, there have been some significant...![Empty shelves in an ASDA store on February 24, 2023 in Cardiff, Wales [Matthew Horwood/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GettyImages-1247437442-scaled-e1677660322594.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
North Africa was once known as the "breadbasket" due to its favourable climate and significant arable land along the Mediterranean coast. This was especially true at the time of...
Social media reactions to unveiled plans to build a large cube-shaped structure as part of a re-development project in the capital, Riyadh’s city centre![Iranians attend an event marking the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2023 [Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/AA-20230211-30261196-30261190-IRAN_MARKS_44TH_ANNIVERSARY_OF_ISLAMIC_REVOLUTION.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Iran celebrated the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on Saturday, with mass rallies held in towns and cities across the country, including the capital Tehran, where participants converged...
Experts and activists from across the world addressed digital censorship the origins of Zionism and how Israel enforces apartheid![TikTok [Mustafa Murat Kaynak - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200221_2_40967393_52376901.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Written over 2,000 years ago, Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu stated in The Art of War that "Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of...
Last week, the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup kicked off in Iraq for the first time in 44 years, with Basra serving as the host city for the regional biennial...
The JNF/KKL: A Charity Complicit with Ethnic Cleansing by academic and civil rights activist Dr Uri Davis is the latest offering by MEMO Publishers and brings to light the...![Lionel Messi of Argentina, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar and Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA are seen in the trophy presentation after the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Final match between Argentina and France at Lusail Stadium on December 18, 2022 in Lusail City, Qatar [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AA-20221219-29779550-29779543-ARGENTINA_WINS_WORLD_CUP-scaled-e1671474879651.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Despite facing an unprecedented scale of criticism and calls for boycotts, months before a ball had been kicked, the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar has been a success....
12 December 1098 the Crusader siege of Ma'arrat Al-Numan came to a gruesome end. A European army led by a knight named Raymond Pilet D'Ales entered the city after its surrender and a massacre ensued![A giant flag of IR Iran on the pitch prior to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on November 25, 2022 in Doha, Qatar [Catherine Ivill/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1444485913-scaled-e1669661456557.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Tensions are set to rise between the US and Iran, not only in the political realm but also on the football pitch ahead of tomorrow's much-anticipated encounter at the...![A Shot down Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone allegedly used by Russia’s armed forces near Kupiansk in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv [@UAWeapons/Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/FchAq3PXwAEQJcS-e1663253373689.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The advent of Turkiye's Bayraktar TB2 combat drone has undeniably propelled the country to superpower status, at least when it comes to the manufacture and supply of unmanned aerial...
The devastating war in Yemen has been raging for eight years, and with the recent expiry of a UN-brokered truce, conflict between the warring parties remains unlikely to end...
Sharing a very personal account of his own incarceration at the hands of the Israeli occupation authorities, MEMO's Palestinian political cartoonist, Mohammad Sabaaneh, offers us a glimpse into this...
Since July 2022 after President Abelmadijd Tebboune told reporters French was a 'war booty' language while English was an international one educational authorities scrambled to change the curriculum![Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin, Turkish deputy National Defense Minister Yunus Emre Karaosmanoglu and other officials on January 30, 2021 [Resul Rehimov/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Nassima-20210130_2_46632168_62075143.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The South Caucasus is no stranger to outside powers competing for influence and advancing their own interests. During the Cold War, for example, the region was on the front...
Of the 12 official Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Ain El-Hilweh ('Ayn Al-Hilwe) is the largest in both area and population and is known among its 33,000 or so...
Saudi Arabia's The Line has been lauded as the world's most futuristic city plan, and for good reason. The vertical, walled smart city will run entirely on renewable energy...![A demonstration in front of Lebanon's Central Bank (Banque du Liban) in in Beirut, Lebanon on 7 July 2022 [Hussam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AA-20220707-28357993-28357985-DEMONSTRATION_IN_LEBANON.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The situation in Lebanon contains the main ingredients for another popular uprising: the dire economic and financial crisis; worsening food and fuel shortages; rampant corruption; and growing public disdain...
It is common knowledge that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) resistance movement maintains the strongest links with Iran and is ideologically closer to the Islamic Republic compared with the...
The concept of martyrdom is one that is shared by all three Abrahamic faiths and one which, by the time of the advent of Islam, was understood firmly by...![Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is welcomed by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi with an official ceremony in Tehran, Iran on July 19, 2022. [Ali Balıkçı - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AA-20220719-28447655-28447653-TURKISH_PRESIDENT_ERDOGAN_IN_IRAN.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Despite being at the forefront of states determined to see the overthrow of the Syrian government by throwing its weight behind armed opposition factions over a decade ago, Turkey...
Israel may not immediately spring to mind when thinking about England's Manchester United Football Club, yet in terms of inconsistent leadership the self-declared Jewish state appears to be following...
We are so used to hearing the R-word being used to describe adversarial or hostile states to the US and collective West
Over the weekend Indian authorities bulldozed several homes belonging to Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). The homeowners were alleged to have taken part in organised...![An Iraqi security guard walks outside the parliament building in Baghdad as a scheduled vote for the republic's president was indefinitely postponed after most major political blocs boycotted the parliamentary session on 7 February 2022. [SABAH ARAR/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GettyImages-1238268361.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Last week, Iraq's Parliament passed a new law criminalising normalisation with Israel, becoming the first Arab country to formally ban normalisation with Israel. The motion was described in a...![A picture taken on October 12, 2020, shows an Israeli soldier opening the gate of the Rosh Hanikra Crossing, also known as the Ras Al Naqoura Crossing, between Israel and Lebanon. [ JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1229026047.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
As the sole Lebanese armed faction from the country's civil war implicitly allowed to retain its arsenal in accordance with the 1989 Taif Accord that ended the conflict, the...![Protesters in support of Palestine in Baghdad, Iraq on 15 May 2021 [AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Protesters-in-support-of-Palestine-in-Iraq.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On Wednesday the Iraqi Council of Representatives approved, in the first reading, a draft bill banning normalisation of ties with Israel. If passed, it will make Iraq the first...![Palestinians burn tires to block the road as Israeli security forces enter in the village of Silat al-Harithiya, near the town of Jenin, in occupied West Bank on 7 May 2022. [Nedal Eshtayah - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AA-20220507-27786703-27786702-ISRAELI_FORCES_ENTER_THE_VILLAGE_OF_SILAT_ALHARITHIYA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Following Thursday's axe and knife attack in the illegal Israeli settlement of Elad which killed three settlers, there have been calls from Israel's security establishment and media for a...
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI Yemen was divided with the north and south forming separate countries![This image grab taken from Yemen TV early on April 7, 2022 shows Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi during a televised speech [YEMEN TV/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239799279-e1650444833317.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Yemen's newly-formed Presidential Leadership Council was sworn in on Tuesday before parliament in Aden. The southern port city has served as the internationally-recognised government's interim capital since March 2015,...![Ousted Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan delivers a speech to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party's supporters during a public rally in Peshawar on 13 April 2022. [ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239962834.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The US and British governments denied their roles in the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, for decades. Although western complicity in the toppling of...