
Amelia Smith
Amelia Smith is a writer and journalist based in London who has reported from across the Middle East and North Africa. In 2016 Amelia was a finalist at the Write Stuff writing competition at the London Book Fair. Her first book, “The Arab Spring Five Years On”, was published in 2016 and brings together a collection of authors who analyse the protests and their aftermath half a decade after they flared in the region.
Items by Amelia Smith
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- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
Bringing contemporary Moroccan art to London
Finding a riad-style warehouse teeming with beautiful Moroccan furniture isn’t quite what you expect when stepping off the tube at Greenford in west London. But it is in a showroom at the heart of this Ealing suburb, at the top end of the central line, that husband and wife Adnan…
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- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
#withoutwords: emerging Syrian artists at the P21 Gallery, London
There is something unnerving about Fadi Al Jabour’s doll. Painted using oils in the abstract realistic style, from a distance she is a cute with round cheeks and blond hair secured into pigtails with red ribbons. On closer inspection just one of her eyes is baby blue. The other is…
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- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
UK hip hop producer to take recording studio to Gaza
Dai Dream may be a British hip hop producer from Liverpool, but he has a huge fan base in the occupied territories. “I love Palestine and I love the country” he tells me. Recently, Dai worked on an album with MC Gaza, who is based in the Strip, and through…
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- January 22, 2014 Amelia Smith
Photographing Gaza: Paul Hansen and the World Press Photo Award
In the winning image, a group of men carry the bodies of two young Palestinian children wrapped in funeral shrouds down an alley in Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip. Behind them their father’s body is on a stretcher. They were killed in November 2012 when…
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- November 4, 2013 Amelia Smith
Author Jean Said Makdisi speaks to MEMO’s Amelia Smith about her books and her memories of Palestine
“Being Palestinian isn’t simply about nationalism; it can’t be. If it is, then it becomes distorted. That’s what led to the war in Lebanon. You have to have a sense of justice for everybody.” Jean Said Makdisi was working on her book, Teta, Mother and Me, when she discovered that…