Cycling4Gaza will travel across four countries to highlight the freedoms enjoyed by many in Europe but denied to Palestinians in the occupied territories 

Sanaa Abdelgawad and her daughter Asmaa Beltagi were in front of Rabaa’s main stage when security forces advanced on the square. The area was immersed in smoke and Sanaa...

On 1 November 2016, some 25-30 masked men in uniform raided the home of Hemeda Ali Hemeda and arrested his son Kareem. For 42 days, Kareem’s family did not...

Head of the unrecognised Bedouin village Al-Araqeeb Sayah Al-Turi has said that Israel is trying to impose military rule in the Negev in a bid to eliminate the issues...

Even after a decade’s experience as a doctor in conflict and disaster zones, Rosena Allin-Khan was appalled at the sight of sick and dying children separated from their parents...

Security forces detained Lotfy Ibrahim, a young construction worker, as he left a mosque near his home on the Nile Delta in the spring of 2015. When his family...

UK-based Palestinian writer and director Ahmed Masoud, and English actress Maxine Peake, staged a unique protest

Israel isolates female Palestinian prisoners and cuts them off from the outside world, newly released prisoner and writer Lama Khater said yesterday. Speaking in an interview with the Palestinian...

Born in 1989 in Casablanca, Yasmine's strength is the open-mindedness and determination typical of her generation

Gaza. The very name evokes images of Israeli bombardment, crumbling infrastructure, keffiyeh-clad protestors standing defiantly with Palestinian flags and slingshots, and screaming children shot by snipers in a fog...

Education institutions in America are reigning in student activism when it’s highlighting Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians

Ainle O Caireallain tells MEMO why he’s raising money to set up a gym in the West Bank

Before she was arrested Somaya Nasef spent her time walking the streets of Cairo looking for medicine to administer to street children. Essential drugs like insulin and penicillin have...

Interview with director Dr Adila Laïdi Hanieh

"Zionism has never been a movement for self-determination"

For lovers of music which fuses together the sounds of Arab America with the legendary voices of Arabic music, Omar Offendum is old-school or, better still, a pioneer. As...

It was a long week to wait until Friday 30 March 2018 for 27-year-old Sohaib Qudeh, the hardworking farmer from Abbasan neighbourhood in the southern Gaza city of Khan...

In March 2015 masked men broke down the door of Khaled Saddouma’s house, entered his son’s bedroom where he was sleeping and dragged him out of the house without...

In 2014, Suhad Abu Fayed gave birth to her daughter Huriye, a bright-eyed child with a mop of curly hair. When Suhad took Huriye to see her father, Sameer,...

On 9 March Manar Abu Naga was forcibly disappeared from her home in Alexandria along with her husband Omar and their one-year-old son Braa. “One of the neighbours told...

For the 1.8m Palestinians who make up almost 20 per cent of the population of Israel, discrimination and institutional racism has been a reality since the Nakba

The voice is clear, a slight Hebrew accent can be detected when Gideon Levy speaks English. He is precise and concise, showing off maybe some “chutzpah”, but his way...

Palestinians in the diaspora and those who are citizens of Israel can all help to build a Palestinian state, Haifa professor As'ad Ghanem says

Palestinians in Israel amount to around 1.8 million people but face rampant discrimination

British journalist Jonathan Cook lives in Nazareth, here he tells MEMO how Israel’s latest legislation leaves it bare and unable to hide behind the guise that it is an inclusive state

“I have coined quite a few terms,” noted Professor Oren Yiftachel, “but ethnocracy really captures the idea of a regime that creates a state for the benefit of an...

The grandson of late iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela has called on the Palestinians to follow the footsteps of South Africans while struggling against the “apartheid” state of...

Born in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, in 1951, Mousa Abu Marzook was educated in Egypt and the USA. He went on to become the first head of the...

War is a scary time for children who continue to suffer in conflict zones despite the protection provided by international law. In his first short film Paper Boat, Palestinian mathematics graduate turned filmmaker Mahmoud Abu Ghalwa asks whether human beings should have children in such a dangerous environment as the besieged Gaza Strip

Since 2017, Na’ama has been maintaining a popular parody account about US pop sensation Taylor Swift, to keep fans up to date on Taylor’s (not so real) activities –...

A group of Palestinian youth from Palestine, US, the Arab region, Europe and South Africa come together for a study programme in Johannesburg

As Israel’s General Election approaches on 9 April, MEMO interviews candidates, current and former, about their hopes for the future of Israeli politics.