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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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,...

Our interview with Prof. Mark Ayyesh

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...

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...

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...

In Palestine, where Israel's occupation and military checkpoints, encroaching settlements and the imminent threat of annexation are daily realities, animal welfare is not really a priority for most people....

‘The only thing that has changed is the number of identified bodies of victims and the number of tombstones in Potocari. That is changing. Those numbers are growing,’ genocide survivor and army commander Serif Patkovic tells MEMO

I'm in the north of Paris, in an area where residential buildings are increasingly common. Along a peaceful street, there it is: Ardi, the Arabic for "my land". The...

On February 8 2017, Areej and Ashwaq Hamoud packed their belongings and left the house where they grew up in Saudi Arabia to board a plane to what they...

People in Gaza suffer crushing mental pressures due to extreme economic deprivation, the ongoing siege and over-crowded living conditions. This is on top of having endured three brutal wars...

An interview with former Deputy Prime Minister Cevdet Yilmaz

Interview with Celso Amorim, Brazil’s former minister of foreign relations

Since October last year, Lebanon's police and security forces have investigated or detained more than 100 civil rights activists in what Human Rights Watch (HRW) has termed a "spate...

The hunger strike that Palestinian journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq started in an Israeli detention centre lasted 94 days before he was released in May 2016

In the past, there have been many attempts at holding accused Israeli war criminals accountable. Particularly memorable is the case of the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, (known,...

This Palestinian-British filmmaker specialises in emotive short films which detail aspects of the daily life of Palestinians living in their ancestral homes in the occupied territories