Interviews

The associate professor of Middle East Studies says because people have latent feelings that are shared by influential figures, these feelings are seen to be acceptable or encouraged

In his book Seven days in Palestine, Jehad Yousef weaves a deeply personal journey with stories of the persecuted Palestinians in their land as he seeks to expose the...

For decades, women in Egyptian society and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have suffered considerable shame when discussing women's health and personal care. Motherbeing co-founders, Nour Emam...

The efforts of El Salvador´s Palestinians in supporting the Palestinian cause were not limited to holding local and international conferences or appealing to humanitarian institutions to raise awareness of...

Algerian novelist and professor Ahmed Taibaoui on existentialism, plotting a novel and what it’s like to win the Naguib Mahfouz prize for literature. 

Genocide against the Uyghur Muslims continues to worsen as the world looks on, despite its mass atrocities that have come into stark focus over the past five years. Thousands...

Thousands of Syrians lost their lives in the twin earthquakes that hit the region on 6 February, 12-year-old Marwa became an orphan as a result

Before this digital age of social media texts and direct messages, it was commonplace to receive heartfelt handwritten letters from a pen pal, a postcard from overseas or annual...

In a field among the stars, where Egypt had no markers, engineer Sara Sabry became the first Egyptian, Arab and African woman to blast into space. The view of...

The Uruguayan Congress has held a special session for Palestine to express solidarity with the Palestinian people as they stand against the ongoing aggression of Israel's military occupation. The...

"The most difficult part of my work is when I face women who are forced to lie about their cause of burn injuries because they're being threatened with their...

Thirty-six-year-old Gabriel Boric, the youngest Chilean president ever to have been elected, has announced yesterday that his country will raise the level of its representation in the Palestinian territories...

A hijab-wearing Palestinian American woman was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives for the first time. Ruwa Romman has made history earlier this month as the first Muslim...

Interview with the Brazilian Ambassador and Head of the Representative Office of Brazil to the State of Palestine, Francisco Mauro Holland

The Swimmers is a new film based on the story of two Syrian sisters that literally swam to Europe as war refugees

The new Dubai show of Ramallah-based artist Bashar Alhroub looks at his native city Jerusalem as a place with multiple identities. "When you are in Jerusalem," Alhroub told me,...

Scores of people waved Palestinian flags as they gathered in the city of Santa Clara del Mar, in Argentina's Buenos Aires State. They had come together to celebrate the...

Dan Hodd travelled from Europe to COP27 in Egypt without stepping foot on a plane to highlight the case for environmental travel, MEMO caught up with him along the way

Muslims are well established in Europe; those in Eastern Europe in particular have been living in the continent for many centuries. A visible Muslim community has existed in Britain...

For close to 300 days a year, Abdelrahman Hassanein's workmates are lions, cheetahs, buffalo and elephants. Not for him a desk, computer and colleagues engaged in mundane work. Instead,...

Last month, a 51-year-old Palestinian farmer was tending to his family land on the outskirts of the village of At-Tuwani, where they grow olives, figs, tomatoes and zucchini. A...

A deputy from the Workers' Party in Brazil's Congress, Paulo Pimenta, has called on the Palestinian community in the country to support former president Lula da Silva in the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan which Tunisia is working to obtain will help the country's general budget but not solve its economic crisis, former Minister of Trade and...

Syrian-American Ahmad Alzahabi has turned the skills he learnt helping his mum make family dinners into recipes that followers can use to discover their own palette 

Interview with a bookseller, whose love for and knowledge of books earned him an international reputation and customers.

Emirati curator Alia Zaal says her work has been inspired by her father's weak eyesight as 'he was forced to approach art a bit differently, paying a lot of attention to detail'

On the run from authorities after forcing a bank to release her family savings at gunpoint to treat her cancer-stricken sister, 28-year-old Lebanese interior designer, Sali Hafiz, insists she...

The murder of 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie on 16 March 2003 started a global conversation about how Israel gets away with its terrorism against civilians and human rights defenders...

Canadian-Syrian Zoulfa Katouh has become Bloomsbury publishing’s first Young Arab author of Syrian descent, she hopes her book will allow people to get a better understanding of the events in her homeland

Google workers Ariel Koren and Gabriel Schubiner spoke to MEMO while still employed by the company, criticising the technology giant’s ‘unethical business practices’ regarding military contracts with Israel and the treatment of Palestinian employees 

It is the seventh century CE and the Ummayad forces are advancing across North Africa. Their rapid expansion is fuelled by treasures and riches, their dynasty defined by opulence...

Lebanese Nelly Attar was driven by the memory of her father to reach the top to the world’s second highest and most deadly peak, K2