Palestinian actor and director Momin Swaitat looks at life under occupation and the contemporary refugee experience in his latest work 'Alien Land'

Sudan’s Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmed Bilal Osman, has downplayed the significance of calls to normalise relations with Israel and warned against plans to “divide and rule” countries across the...

Palestinian activist Issa Amro tells MEMO about his experiences of being arrested by Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and his thoughts on the upcoming court case brought against him by...

The departure of Daesh from various regions of Iraq has been a reason for the international community to rejoice in recent months, particularly for those invested in tackling the...

Arab Member of the Knesset, Hanin Zoabi, confirmed that the deal of the century depends on the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) position toward Trump’s Jerusalem decision: “If the PA “started...

The reason why Rana Samara is one of the most cutting-edge of Palestinian artists is because she looks at one fundamental aspect of our humanity, one which is generally...

Samah Jabr is one of the first female psychiatrists in Palestine, and one of only 22 psychiatrists serving the occupied West Bank’s 2.5 million strong population. Born in Jerusalem,...

Dr Ibrahim Fares Al-Yazouri was born in the Palestinian village of Beit Daras in 1940. He fled from Zionist gangs to Ashdod with his family in 1948, and then...

Manaf Halbouni tells me that the price of tomatoes in Syria has increased 80 fold since the start of the conflict: “When I left Syria you used to pay...

One member of the team behind the six-year-old MEMO Palestine Book Awards in London is Victoria Brittain, a journalist and author herself. She is now one of the trustees...

Khalil Dewan interviews Salem Thabet Al-Awlaki, spokesman for the Southern Transitional Council and member of the Presidential Council for General Aidarous Al- Zubaidi. The STC has been backed by...

It’s been 84 days since the French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri was imprisoned in Israel after being arrested at his home in East Jerusalem. Since then he has been placed...

The woman who invented the burkini has reaped a tenfold jump in sales since France banned her swimwear, and says her coveralls have opened a whole new sporting life...

Rashidieh was built in 1963 by UNRWA to accommodate Palestinian refugees

On the 100th anniversary of the Balfour declaration, the British promise to help create a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, Motasem A Dalloul interviews 81-year-old Palestinian, Abdul-Hamid Ramadan Al-Aloul,...

An interview with Professor of Political Science and member of the Damir Front Hassan Naf’ah The current regime in Egypt is the worst ever; I have never seen a...

Khalil Dewan interviews Muhammed Al-Bukhaithi, Deputy Head of the Department of External Relations of Ansar Allah (otherwise known as the Houthis) and member of the Political Bureau. The Houthis...

Sheikh Fadl Al-Mawla Hassan was at work at the Engineer’s Syndicate in Alexandria when Egyptian forces raided the building. Everyone, including the security guards and officials working for the...

At just 26 years-old, Yousra Badwan is Palestine’s youngest female mayor after being elected to the post in the Azzun municipality of the occupied West Bank earlier this year....

Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki warned against Tunisia shifting from a corrupt tyrannical state to ‘a corrupt democracy’. In an exclusive interview with Alkhaleej Online, Marzouki urged the “democratic...

The Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA), the European Palestinian Conference (EPC), and a number of other groups have launched a campaign called “Balfour: A Colonial Project”, in the...

Palestinian filmmaker Alaa Ashkar investigates his heritage and that of his family who live within the Green Line. An intimate account of the filmmaker’s quest for identity, “You reap...

“This village is a Muslim-free zone,” reads a sign hanging at the entrance to a village in an area of Myanmar outside Rakhine state. The orders are directed at...

In 2015 six young men were sentenced to death in Egypt for killing a policeman in what became known as the Mansoura Six case. Amelia Smith interviews family members and friends of the ‘six oppressed’ about conditions inside the prison and how their sentencing was more about settling political scores than acting on solid evidence.

Fatima’s husband and two of her brothers were killed by fighters in Syria. Fearing for her children’s lives, she escaped her homeland and embarked on an arduous journey to Morocco...

In an exclusive interview for MEMO Carl Arrindell interviews Ahmed El-Attar of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms human rights organisation.

A convoy of aid for Gaza from the Algerian Muslim Scholars’ Association has been held up at the Rafah Border Crossing by the Egyptian authorities. The Egyptians have refused...

Earlier this month, pro-Palestinian activist Benjamin Ladraa set off from the Swedish city of Gothenburg to Palestine, a journey he will make entirely on foot.

The first time that Emel Mathlouthi made her voice heard was during the Arab Spring in January 2011, when she sang Dhalem (Tyrant). “You tyrant, kill me, I will...

“A day where I witnessed with my own eyes humanity being demolished.” That’s what Fatima Halawa, 26, replies when asked what the word “Rabaa” reminds her of. Memories of...

Dr. Hanan Al-Amin was in a makeshift operating room in the Rabaa field hospital when security forces burst into the room and ordered her and another doctor to leave....

From Beethoven symphonies to songs by legendary Arab singers such as Fairuz and Um Kalthoum, the Saad siblings’ exceptional performances have captivated crowds in Europe and in the Middle East