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Middle East Monitor's (MEMO) Palestine Book Awards are back for the 12th year and we invite you to submit your best entries. Winning books will be chosen from a...

Experts and activists from across the world addressed digital censorship the origins of Zionism and how Israel enforces apartheid

Israeli Army Forces rounded up 15 Palestinians in overnight raids and demolished several structures in the Occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The detainees were taken...

Jewish organisations yesterday called on Israel's newly-appointed National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to allow ritual slaughter of lamb in Al-Aqsa Mosque to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover. Israeli...

Address by Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, Dr Husam Zomlot at the Palestine Book Awards 2022

Roy spoke about her life and work in Palestine, reflecting on the lives of her family, who survived the Holocaust, and on the lives of Palestinians living under occupation.

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

One of the most startling aspects of Israel's ongoing takeover of historic Palestine is how, despite the catalogue of human rights abuse, violations of international law and the practice...

This complex subject is presented with meticulous research by Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi in Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practising Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022). The book goes beyond the...

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...

You are invited to join us for 11th Palestine Book Awards 2022 - Pre-launch Evening, an evening of celebration with the shortlisted authors.

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear defies order and structure. It is a staggeringly diverse collection and as deep, heavy and haunting as the very days Israel...

It's Christmas Eve in London and Heba Hayek's narrator is looking to bake something that reminds her of home. She settles for basbousa, a coconut yoghurt semolina cake, which...

A prominent part of Israel's colonial violence is the deprivation of free movement for Palestinians. Maryam S. Griffin's book, Vehicles of Decolonisation: Public Transport in the Palestinian West Bank...

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...

The deployment of the physical body into a site of struggle and resistance remains one of the most poignant and controversial methods of protest. Due to its tremendous toll,...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is pleased to announce the books shortlisted for its 2022 Palestine Book Awards. This prestigious event, now in its eleventh year, honours and celebrates...

At least 12 people were injured on Friday in an Israeli police intervention with plastic bullets and sound bombs after dawn prayer, Anadolu News Agency reports. Israeli police intervened...

Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 10th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event.

Watch the 10th annual Palestine Book Awards

This is a recording of the webinar hosted by the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) and Middle East Monitor, on November 10, 2021. Guests included: Dr Daud Abdullah...

If there was one figure central to postcolonial studies and the intellectual force behind the Palestinian meeting with Western academia, it was undoubtedly the late Edward W Said. Although...

Live Stream will begin on this page at 6.30pm UK (5.30pm GMT)

A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish hunger strikers details the personal experiences of 24 Palestinian and 7 Irish hunger strikes in their fight to win their basic rights....

Join our panel of distinguished experts on Thursday 17 June 2021 at 5 pm GMT (6 pm UK)

Seven books have been shortlisted for this year's Palestine Book Awards, Middle East Monitor is happy to announce. The Palestine Book Awards (PBA) is celebrating its tenth anniversary in...

As the world marks World Book Day, the Palestine Book Awards celebrates its 10th anniversary with hundreds of books which continue to keep the Palestinian cause alive through literature

‘The Making of Hamas's Foreign Policy’: Palestine Chronicle TV Hosts Daud Abdullah & Na’eem Jeenah

Dr Rima Khalaf at the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) 2020

Watch the live stream of the 9th annual Palestine Book Awards

Our interview with Prof Salman Sayyid

Our interview with UK-based Kurdish writer Dana Nawzar