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August 19, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Reading can take you into different worlds, and the adventures they contain can take on another dimension when books are read in different languages. New experiences beckon when reading...
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"For women, swimming in a burkini isn't easy," Hilal Uysal Namal tells us. "Women don't feel comfortable because they look different. Also, it's important to swim without one for...
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August 11, 2022
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Ahmad Alzoubi
Nayef Turaani has never visited the Palestinian town he is from because his family were forced out of it as a resut of the Nakba but he is collating information about its past to keep its memory alive
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August 7, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Every now and then, the world is fed a dizzying kaleidoscope of tormenting Uyghur accounts. There are millions. In May, the BBC published a damning report proving up to...
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July 17, 2022
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Seleshi Tessema
Sixty years after Nelson Mandela was trained in guerilla warfare in Ethiopia, a former military officer who acted as his security guard said there had been an attempt to...
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July 14, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
MEMO Interview: NASA's Palestinian Engineer Unveils New Projects
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July 10, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Every year, Defense for Children International - Palestine collects hundreds of statements from Palestinian children who were arrested and subjected to long periods of interrogation without the presence of a parent, guardian or lawyer, and Israel is never held to account for these abuses, its director tells MEMO.
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July 4, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
From the moment she arrived in Sweden Tamam Abou Hamidan faced many challenges, she started working in a pizza restaurant and has now become mayor of a city
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June 28, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
With the occupation of their homeland an ongoing reality, the Palestinians in Brazil know that they have a duty to preserve and share their culture. And whether protesting against...
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June 26, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
When asked what has been the most exciting international appearance, Palestinian-Japanese soprano, Mariam Tamari, quipped that there was nothing like performing with her fellow Palestinian musicians. "We work with...
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June 16, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Historically, Chile has always been a destination for global migration, currently hosting around one million Arab refugees, many of whom cannot return to their countries of origin. Refugees often...
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Migration has existed since ancient times, often a difficult choice for people to make, individually and collectively, for a variety of reasons. Historically, people migrated to find areas to...
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June 6, 2022
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Adel Hamdi
The President of Tunisia's Ennahda Party, Rached Ghannouchi, expressed his conviction that the coup against the democratic path and the Constitution is merely a passing event that will end...
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June 5, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Director of the Bisan Centre for Research and Development Ubai Al-Aboudi talks to MEMO about the group’s designation as a terror group by Israel and its work to highlight injustices at the hands of the occupation and within Palestinian society
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May 3, 2022
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Ahmad Alzoubi
Interview with Mehmet Çelik, representative of the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation of projects in Latin America
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May 1, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
When Bayan Abu Salameh enrolled in a mechanical engineering degree, she was one of only four women in an intake of more than 70 students at Birzeit University, north...
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April 24, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Palestine has recently been experiencing turbulent events in various parts of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. These events are taking place on several fronts at once:...
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In 2016, when she was just 12 years old, Abeer Kaffi attained third place for her age in the Amman Marathon, an annual event held in the Jordanian capital...
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Murtaza Hussain is a reporter at the Intercept who focuses on national security and foreign policy. He has appeared on CNN, BBC, MSNBC and other news outlets.
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April 17, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Last Friday, Muslims worshipers went to Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform their morning – Fajr prayer – as they normally. Unfortunately for them, the Israeli occupation has become used to...
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April 17, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Nisreen Salem is an Afro-Palestinian from Egypt who has been mocked due to her skin colour and hair for most of her young life. The 25 year old is...
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April 14, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Being a Palestinian refugee is not a matter of choice, but working for Palestine is. Millions of Palestinians have found themselves uprooted following the Nakba in 1948 and the...
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April 4, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Raghid Sandouk escaped from his home in Damascus and brought his wife and three children to safety in Britain. "We never thought of living in the UK," he told...
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March 27, 2022
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Anadolu Agency
Sitting beside her father's library, which contains hundreds of books on politics, history and Arab literature, 17-year-old Qabas Banat prepares daily for her higher secondary school exams in June....
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March 24, 2022
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Amelia Smith
Elsa Lefort met her husband, Salah Hamouri, on 18 December 2011, the day he came out of prison under the Gilad Shalit detainee exchange. As part of his supporting...
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March 20, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
It was during the late afternoon hours of 29 September 2021 when Basel Al-Adra was being chased by a group of masked Israeli settlers with bats and rocks. They...
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March 17, 2022
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Naima Morelli
Where does a refugee find her homeland? Perhaps in unexpected places; a memory of the country might emerge through the most mundane gestures, or even from a simple interaction...
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March 8, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Ukrainian parliamentarian Kira Ruddik has expressed her surprise on Twitter that she has learnt how to use a Kalashnikov assault rifle and prepared herself to bear arms. "It sounds...
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March 7, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
The spicy aroma and pots bubbling away are part of the daily routine that helps to see Nour Al-Batta and her husband Ahmed Taha through the crisis days in...
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February 25, 2022
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Reuters
As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major, Waheeda Bayat, will not be among them. The 24-year-old was looking forward to resuming her course at the private Gawharshad...
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February 17, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Cultural appropriation is just one way in which the Israeli occupation seeks to eradicate Palestinian heritage. This is very obvious when it comes to food, with hummus being claimed...
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February 14, 2022
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Naima Morelli
We inhabit a burning world, where everything is constantly dying while also being alive, brightly so. From our emotions to our thoughts and feelings, from our bodies to the...