Lebanese-British man Eddie El-Lamaa cycled from London to Beirut to raise money for the Lebanese Red Cross after the Beirut blast
On 27 September, Egypt's public prosecution ordered that 79 children detained since the start of the demonstrations be released. All the children were aged between 10 and 15 and...
October 8, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu Although it is quite normal in many places today, Fatima Hussein is the first Palestinian Muslim woman to be nominated as a candidate in a Brazilian municipal council election....
October 7, 2020 |
Muhammad Hussein Our interview with UK-based Kurdish writer Dana Nawzar
October 6, 2020 |
Hassina Mechaï What did you do in Algeria, Daddy? is the title of a new book by historian Raphaëlle Branche, and the essence of the question runs throughout the text. She...
October 4, 2020 |
Faiza Saqib A lot can be told through people's sense of style, the outfits they wear and how they express themselves through fashion. But in many cultures it is not just...
October 1, 2020 |
Naima Morelli "It was one humiliation too many," is how artist Nadia Khiari recalls the speech of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on 13 January 2011, following the street...
September 30, 2020 |
Aisha Elmasri Our interview with Palestinian-American children's author and Palestine Book Awards nominee for 2020 Rifk Ebeid
September 29, 2020 |
Amelia Smith On Friday 25 September Amr Abn Hashad went to the Egyptian consulate in Istanbul for his tawkeel, or power of attorney. They gave him a receipt and asked him to...
September 28, 2020 |
Elif Selin Calik Turkey's 21st-century geopolitical strategy is called the Blue Homeland. It is the brainchild of retired Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz, who talked to MEMO about Turkey's eastern Mediterranean policy, which...
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US September 25, 2020 |
Naima Morelli "Just like the seasons of the Earth, there is a time and place for everything," says Lebanese artist Zena El-Khalil. "Winter has the tendency to create the most amount...
September 23, 2020 |
Usman Butt Sarah Hunaidi, a Syrian feminist and human rights activist, spoke exclusively to MEMO about the Syrian uprising, revolution and civil war, as well as the politics of the Druze community.
September 19, 2020 |
Jehan Alfarra Sudan's struggling economy and healthcare sector, already crippled by the coronavirus pandemic, have been pushed to their limits in recent weeks as devastating floods, the worst in nearly a...
September 17, 2020 |
Hassina Mechaï On 25 October, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah will begin his 37th year as a prisoner. This communist activist and resistance hero of the Palestinian cause has been imprisoned in Lannemezan,...
September 15, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman The explosion in Beirut last month could not have come at a worse time for children and families. In a country that is already under enormous economic and social...
September 14, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu In her book and documentary film My land lives in me, Bruna Kadletz weaves a deeply personal journey with stories from refugee camps in Lebanon and Palestine. She believes...
September 11, 2020 |
Lauren Lewis An NGO in Jordan is using skateboarding to bring refugee communities together. Skateboarding, explains Belgian-born Kas Wauters, the programme manager of the 7Hills skatepark in Amman, helps to break down...
Stephen Bronner is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Rutgers University
September 2, 2020 |
Lauren Lewis The Children's Cancer Centre of Lebanon (CCCL) provides free treatment for children from across the Middle East, irrespective of nationality, religion or ethnicity. In the wake of the massive...
September 2, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman Born and raised in Australia, Arslan Hidayet visited East Turkestan every 3-4 years and eventually married there. He is the son-in-law of internationally renowned Uyghur comic Adil Mijit who was being detained by the Chinese authorities.
August 29, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman Yemen's economy and healthcare system have been devastated by five years of ongoing Saudi-led war, leaving the people of Yemen powerless and struggling to survive. "The most harmful damage...
August 26, 2020 |
Nasim Ahmed Few have documented Israel's erasure of Palestine better than Dr Salman Abu Sitta. Best known for his ground-breaking project mapping historic Palestine and developing a practical plan for implementing...
August 23, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman A Muslim woman has become the first hijab-wearing journalist to anchor a report on Scottish TV news, after a ten-year career in journalism. Tasnim Nazeer, 34, made history following...
August 21, 2020 |
Lauren Lewis It is immediately clear Iraqi culture is close to Ahmed Habib's heart when he describes fried aubergine sandwiches as "the world's way of saying everything will be fine". "They...
August 20, 2020 |
Lauren Lewis Even before 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut's port, killing nearly 200, injuring thousands more and devastating the city and the country's main port on 4 August, Lebanon was struggling...
August 18, 2020 |
Reuters Gaza rapper Abdulrahman Al-Shanti may only be 11 years old but his rhymes on war and hardship in the Palestinian enclave have reached thousands of people
August 17, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman Action, rather than words, is desperately being called for by Palestine Action's Stewart Walker*. It is time to seek other means by which to convey to the UK, Israel...
Some 8,615 people have been forcibly disappeared in Iraq since 2017, with the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR)now working to discover their fate. Dr Anas Akram Mohammed,...
August 5, 2020 |
Nasim Ahmed Our interview with Prof. Mark Ayyesh
August 2, 2020 |
Fareed Taamallah Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been making a conscious effort to support local farmers to help them face Israel's efforts to annex their farms. Volunteers of the...
July 30, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman Mass slaughter and widespread destruction are no laughing matter – and yet, it seems the comedy scene in Palestine is thriving. Palestinian-American activist and comedian Amer Zahr, the founder...
July 20, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu To read the first part of this interview please click here. With the rise of the extreme right-wing under Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, former ambassador and minister Celso Amorim is...