Interviews

In Angela Merkel's 2015 New Year address, the German chancellor told the country it should aid Ukrainians, Iraqis and Syrians who have escaped war and death in their countries....

Palestinian sources have unveiled that the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has arrested a former employee of the General Directorate of Petroleum, which is affiliated to the Palestinian Ministry...

"There is a wish for Palestinians to be stateless, but also faceless and voiceless." Samah Jabr, one of Palestine's first female psychiatrists and a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist, has spent...

We, the leadership of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, welcome the decision of the General Court of the European Union to remove Hamas from the European Union's terrorist list...

"When public anger reaches its limit, it explodes on its own" In recent months there has been rising anger and violence in Jerusalem, centred largely around tensions over the...

For all its bravado, Israel is terrified of bad publicity. So it should be, for neither the legions of public relations companies nor well-paid lobbyists have been able to...

"We need to remember that some of the most beautiful pieces of architecture, that we all love and we all travel to see, have been military fortifications and sites...

Britain's first female Muslim cabinet minister – who quit last August over the crisis in Gaza – has spoken out over her resignation, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the U.K.'s European...

'It is the occupation, not Hamas recognition of Israel, which is the core problem' It is rather unnerving to come face to face with a man regarded by many...

Diana Matar is interested in capturing what can no longer be seen. "It can be ironic within the medium of photography because we rely so stubbornly on a subject,"...

Following is a translation of an interview with Mohammad Sadiq Al-Husseini, an Iranian political analyst, by Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen television, posted on Youtube on 25 September. Muhammad Sadiq Al-Husseini: Between...

"If people really want to know what motivates me and the position I've taken, it shouldn't require some rich explanation or ideology. It's not about having 'Jewish issues' with...

Political activist Tawakkol Karman has said that Yemen is witnessing a full counter-revolution waged by the Houthi clan with financial and military backing from Iran. The General Coordinator of...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW "I am a proud feminist," says young Ennahda candidate Sayida Ounissi, who wants to be the voice of Tunisian youth. She tells MEMO about what it's like...

"Syrians embraced all people: Palestinians, Iraqis, and Egyptians. But no one is helping us; instead they built us refugee camps. We live in a world now where we feel Muslims no longer sympathise with each other."

"ISIS has been trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guard," claims late Syrian rebel leader. Just hours before an explosion wiped out the entire leadership of one of the most powerful...

"Immediately after the war Israel initiated a political and a propaganda campaign, including distributing false information about a coup d'état that was prepared in the West Bank, to divert...

"I don't think we have a magic wand to solve the problem but I think as part of the AU we can make an effective contribution as Africans, as...

"The Iraqi tradition was built upon forgiveness and acceptance of the other on the basis of the national identity. This was eliminated in 2003 and the years that followed....

The Zionist enemy made two mistakes. First, it led the negotiations, through Egyptian mediators, to a dead-end and aborted all political efforts to reach an agreement, and therefore it...

"Palestinian voices are not heard in the media and when they do break into the media they're diluted, or told what to say, or their language is changed, or...

Hina Jilani, senior lawyer at the Supreme Court in Pakistan and human rights activist, was a member of the UN Fact Finding Mission on Gaza in 2009 led by...

"We are ready for all options, including peaceful ones through mediators, whether they are Egyptians or others. We are also ready for the resistance choice, which is based on...

Christopher Gunness is the public face of UNRWA, the UN agency dedicated to the plight of Palestinian refugees. He talked to MEMO about the innocent thousands who have been...

"In the end when you see those kids dying every day and old men and women killed, you want to survive. You think life is very cheap. Human life,...

Mohammed El Hamdaoui likens the Islamic Unification and Reform Movement (URM) in Morocco, of which he is the President, to a football team. "If you look at the structure...

The veteran Bahrain human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has renewed his call for discussions with the government with the hope of ending more than three years of unrest in...

Mustapha El-Khalfi calls the Arab Spring of 2011 the "democratic spring" though it's hard to see how it earned that name. There is a civil war raging in Syria,...

Below is the translation of the interview on Al-Hayat TV. Presenter: You are talking about the new beginning that saw the success of Field Marshal Abdel-Fatah Al-Sisi who won...

"We want to capture this sense of their being 'living' media rather than artificially sacralised or displayed with a gallery-style reverence that was never their original intention, and which...

On October 3rd Al Hiwar TV conducted an interview with a relative of Hamdi Hussein. Hussein was a sniper responsible for deaths in Rabba al Adawiya at the massacres...

The UK-based Palestinian dabke theatre group Al Zaytouna will present its new production entitled Unto the Breach, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V set in modern-day Palestine. The show,...