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    • Gaza: On the ground

      • UNICEF ‘taking appropriate action’ against staff accused of spying for Israel: UN

        Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 22 July

        MEMO spoke to Motasem A Dalloul, a survivor of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in the first of a new series of regular updates from the ground. Dalloul describes the daily struggle to survive: hunger, cold, the collapse of healthcare, and ongoing Israeli violations despite the so-called ceasefire. WATCH:  Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 08 July

    • MEMO in conversation

      • UNICEF ‘taking appropriate action’ against staff accused of spying for Israel: UN

        MEMO in Conversation with Raouf Farrah

        In this conversation with Raouf Farrah, lead Africa analyst at SecDev and co-editor of Rising for Palestine, we discuss his new book and its call for renewed Africa-Palestine solidarity. We also discuss the Sumud convoy, a North African solidarity initiative organised to challenge Israel’s siege on Gaza. Farrah reflects on the political obstacles the convoy faced and what they reveal about the regional response to Palestine. Raouf Farrah is the Lead Africa Analyst at the SecDev Group, a risk analytics firm working at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. In 2025, he was instrumental in organising  The Sumud Convoy, an attempt to break Israel’s siege on Gaza This year, Farrah co-edited a book, Rising for Palestine. MORE >>> MEMO in […]

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      • UNICEF ‘taking appropriate action’ against staff accused of spying for Israel: UN

        The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s–1910s

        The history of a city is political. When examining the heritage of a place, it is often the case that present-day politics projects itself onto the past. Perhaps no other example of this is truer than the Ottoman past in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1913, the local council of the Bulgarian city of Sofia voted to demolish the last remaining Ottoman bathhouse, as Stefan Peychev writes, the destruction of the bathhouse represented more than the removal of a hygiene facility. ‘The bath was also one of the last architectural relics of a 500-year-long period that had seen Sofia’s rise as the capital of the Ottoman Empire’s European possessions in the mid-fifteenth century and its eventual decline to provincial obscurity […]

    • Palestine This Week

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        Gaza Ceasefire Falters as Trump Remains Trapped in Israel-First Agenda | Palestine This Week

        In this episode of Palestine This Week, we are joined by Palestinian political analyst Muhammad Shehada to examine the major developments of the past seven days. The episode covers the latest Hamas-Israel ceasefire negotiations, the role of Gaza in exposing dark money and foreign influence in US politics, Israeli-funded efforts to “poison” AI-generated information and important legal victories protecting anti-Zionist speech in the UK and Germany. We also discuss why Israel and the US are being mentioned in connection with the Ceuta migration crisis, as well as the debate sparked by Green Party plans to twin Greater Manchester with Ramallah and the history of terrorism in Palestine. In this episode of Palestine This Week, we are joined by Palestinian political […]

Islam Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads

Gaza Ceasefire Falters as Trump Remains Trapped in Israel-First Agenda | Palestine This Week

Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign Policy

MEMO in Conversation with Motasem A Dalloul