Rajaa Alzeer has been doing Palestinian embroidery for a lifetime, she only stopped when Israeli settlers broke her arms.

In 2014, fresh from the coup they led against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the government offered Yehya Okail the position of deputy mayor of North Sinai. He wasn’t...

Since The Yacoubian Building was released in 2002 Alaa Al-Aswany has become Egypt’s most emblematic writer. Sometimes compared to Naguib Mahfouz the author has recently released a new novel,...

Kristin Foss was shot twice by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. As she tells MEMO, for Palestinians this is daily life.

Founder of ‘Cycling Palestine’ Sohaib Samara speaks to MEMO

'Jamal is and will always be my idol'

Wafa Ali speaks to Abu Khamees whose house is among those threatened with demolition by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank village

Many will wonder why it has taken Roger Waters, co-founder of the legendary band Pink Floyd, over a decade since he first became one of the staunchest advocates for...

Raya Al-Jadir speaks to Palestinian author and playwright Ahmed Masoud about his latest offering which takes readers on an imaginary story through Gaza

In the heart of the Sudanese capital’s Omdurman Wad Nubawi district sits Sarah Abdullah Abdurrahman Nugallah, one of the most powerful women in Sudanese politics. Nugallah is Secretary General...

In December 2012 Abdelrahman Zaid became one of the thousands of civilians to be incarcerated in Mubarak’s sweep to end the Arab Spring. At the time of his arrest...

With her unique social enterprise Ballare, entrepreneur Amira Nimerawi has managed to solve a problem for busy working women while helping to provide an education for young girls living...

Mohammad Sabaaneh was released from an Israeli prison four years ago. He had been incarcerated for five months, spending almost two weeks in solitary confinement. Israeli forces held Mohammad...

The Israeli navy illegally boarded the 2018 Freedom Flotilla sailing to Gaza to break the blockade imposed on the territory since 2007

After months of preparation by its volunteer team, the ride sets out from Coventry on Friday and will arrive in London on Sunday, staging rallies along the way.  ...

The festival is an attempt to connect with the Arab World

MEMO attended the 31st African Union Summit held in Nouakchott, Mauritania and talked with Niger's president, Mahamadou Issoufou

Almost a year since he set out walking to Palestine, Swedish #WalkToPalestine activist Benjamin Ladraa reflects on his journey. On 6 July, after spending 11 months walking from his...

Rebecca Stead speaks to two members of the Birthright group who staged a walkout in protest of the tour’s whitewashing of the Israeli occupation.

Jewish-American activist and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Ariel Gold, who was barred from entering Israel earlier this month, speaks to MEMO about her experience....

Born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family, Kassis grew up surrounded by the distinct flavours of Palestinian food and a vast culinary heritage.

In an interview with MEMO, the Director of Public Relations and Information at the Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs, Sawsan Al-Keilani, explains Jordan’s position on recent events in Jerusalem.

Taha Al-Esawi of Arabi21 interviews Professor Hassan Nafaa of the University of Cairo Hassan Nafaa is Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Cairo. In an interview with...

Interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly, about his film AMBULANCE, documenting the 51-day Israeli offensive on Gaza in 2014

How is the Muslim Brotherhood doing now? What are its priorities? The Brotherhood is a Muslim organisation with a school of thought that is no longer hidden. We do...

The first time Talal Hasan met Omar Almahel they slept side by side on a piece of cardboard at a train station in Brussels. Not long after this the...

Aram Rawf, a Kurdish refugee who fled Iraq in 1999, became the first asylum seeker to join St. John Ambulance in a bid to “say thank you to my...

Mai Masri was one of the first Palestinian filmmakers to document life in Palestine under Israeli occupation and the civil war in Lebanon

This Palestinian man uses bullets shot by Israeli occupation forces in to the Gaza Strip to highlight Palestine's longing for peace

On Tuesday 15 May, three Swedish boats met in the Danish Straits near Copenhagen to start a voyage that would take them across channels and seas all the way...

Since its establishment in August 2014 as a coordination group seeking to provide a practical mechanism for joint humanitarian support for the Palestinian people, the Popular International Committee to...

Amelia Smith interviews Aayah Khalaf, the daughter of Ola Al-Qaradawi and Hosam Khalaf who have been detained for nearly a year in Egypt. Ola is the daughter of the exiled Egyptian scholar Yusuf Al-Qaradawi.