Interviews

"It all started about a year and a half ago," recalled Numan Abu Shamla, Secretary General of the Palestine Amputee Football Association. "They are the first Palestinian national football...

When lifelong worrier Sondos Mleitat was forced to discreetly sneak across her university corridors to visit the mental health counsellor and seek help, it was the prompt she needed...

The leader of Ghad El-Thawra party and former Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour fears for his life after his phone was hacked by two different groups. The exiled activist...

Julieta Ramirez is a congresswoman in Mexico, a role she took on when she was just 26 years old. She was one of the participants from Latin America at...

On Sunday 16 May, in the pitch dark of the night between midnight and dawn 51-year-old Shukri Al-Kulak and his 22-year-old daughter lay under the rubble of their home....

It was an ordinary Monday morning in Jordan when they came for me. At around 11:30am on 15 November, the doorbell rang. I wasn't expecting anyone, but to my...

Swedish journalist Lena Fredriksson's account of everyday life under Israel's West Bank occupation is informed and passionate. All Quiet on the West Bank? Living under prolonged occupation pulls no...

MEMO sat down with Emad Kiyaei of the Middle East Treaty Organisation to discuss the significance of the nuclear talks

Osama Gaweesh interviews Mamdouh Al-Wali, the former Chief Executive Officer of the official Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram

On this year's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Brazilian parliamentarians, institutions, committees and movements have signed a manifesto rejecting Britain's designation of the political wing of...

Rooftops in occupied East Jerusalem are being used by Palestinian women for innovative beekeeping and gardening to combat the challenges of life in the cramped, cobbled neighbourhoods of the...

The Arab Centre for Forensic Sciences was opened in the Gaza Strip earlier this year. It is the first centre of its kind in occupied Palestine. In his speech...

What does it mean to be Libyan? How to reconstruct a sense of belonging for the country and its people, starting from the deepest roots of Libyan culture, while...

After moving to the UK to complete a master’s degree, Jerusalemite Hana Alamleh refused to find a job and settle in Europe, choosing to return to her home to protect it from settlers

The new movement Alternative Palestinian Revolutionary Path Movement seeks to unite the diaspora and build a project of return with an end to the Zionist occupation

In Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state, which is the home in exile for thousands of Palestinians, a Brazilian film about Palestine and Palestinian refugees is doing the rounds....

During the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe), the nascent Israeli army occupied more than 40 Palestinian villages to the west of Jerusalem. The residents were driven out of their homes and...

The military attaché at the Embassy of Yemen in Turkey Askar Zoail says more needs to be done to bring peace to Yemen and the region

Interview with Lebanese University Professor and Translator, Safa Jubran

"After six years, I only felt freedom when I heard the word 'Mama' from my little son, who I left when he was only eight months old," says mother...

Breaking a Guinness World Record for the largest GPS drawing ever created, the pair also raised money for charity projects which support asylum seekers 

People on the packed boat screamed as the Libyan coastguard rammed them until they feared it would sink. They boarded and swung their truncheons and guns at men, women,...

Palestinian artist Hazem Harb doesn't try to define the idea of Palestine in his work. "For me, Palestine just is," he tells me. "I'm interested in its history and...

Over the course of the ongoing decade-long Syrian conflict, documentation of the war and its effects has always been desired by the outside world

A Palestinian student born and raised in a refugee camp in Lebanon has been selected as one of the top 50 finalists for the 2021 Chegg Global Student Prize....

Using one of the world's most abundant and renewable elements, Palestinian sand artist Rana Al-Ramlawi highlights the Palestinian cause and Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip in her work....

Death, destruction and endless streams of refugees have become a common theme in the documentation of war, to the point of becoming almost numbing in their repetitiveness. However, another...

For a Palestinian-Syrian-Ukrainian who grew up in the largest refugee camp in Syria, becoming a dancer doesn't strike me as the most obvious career choice. Yet of the three...

Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine talks to Eman Abusidu

It can't have been easy for someone to be born in one country, grow up in another, live in a third and represent a fourth in the Olympics. That,...

In the early hours of Tuesday, the Taliban celebrated the departure of the last US plane of soldiers and their ambassador from Afghanistan, after a 20-year US-led occupation of...

Hanna is 1 of 5 athletes representing Palestine at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics the occupied country's 7th appearance at the games