Interviews

Last week, dozens of journalists protested in Tunis in solidarity with two Radio Mosaique journalists who were interrogated by the country's security forces. Haythem El Mekki and Elyess Gharbi...

Irish campaigner Mick Bowlan has been walking for over a month on his 2,000 mile journey to Palestine, in order to raise awareness of Israeli occupation and apartheid in the occupied territories. The longtime activist for Palestinian rights aims to reach the occupied West Bank by mid-October 2023.

Palestinian-Brazilian Lubna Lulu Abura wanted a healthy snack for her kids and thought a modern twist on a traditional staple would be perfect

'The conversation about expelling and taking away people’s citizenship has increased so much against Arabs, foreigners and refugees. There is so much tension in the street'

Most people look forward to staying home, curled up and cosy under covers on the dreary, dark days when it is pouring outside. Many even consider it one of...

For ten days, Fathi Okil has only drunk a saltwater mix. South Korean authorities have sent an ambulance five times to where he is camped out in front of...

Egyptian author Shady Lewis' latest book opens the world of migrants to a Western audience

Growing up in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medicine student Khamis Jouda has survived numerous wars but says he has experienced nothing like the violence he witnessed in Khartoum this...

Rawan Al-Waleed and her family were forced to charter a bus to drive them to Egypt in an effort to escape the bombing in Sudan, but her brother's paperwork was incomplete so they had to leave him behind

Israel’s siege of Gaza bears stark semblances to the 64-year-old US blockade of Cuba, Jose Ramon Cabañas Rodriguez tells MEMO

Palestinian and Brazilian activists have succeeded in forcing the cancellation of the "Israeli Universities Festival" which was scheduled to take place this week at the State University of Campinas...

35-year-old Diana Al Shaer comes from a family of politicians, when she chose a career in horse riding she didn't know it would bring her closer to her family roots and make her an ambassador for Palestine

Shahla Othman still follows in her father’s footsteps and commemorates Palestine’s Land Day

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...