As the Israeli elections on 9 April approach, MEMO interviews Arab MKs, current and former, as to their experiences of working within the Israeli political system, and their hopes for the future.

Throughout much of her life, Palestinian Sundus Azza and her family have faced regular harassment by Israeli settlers and soldiers in Hebron

As the Israeli elections on 9 April approach, MEMO interviews Arab MKs, current and former, as to their experiences of working within the Israeli political system, and their hopes for the future.

The family of Abdelrahman Attia have appealed for his death sentence to be suspended after the court issued a final verdict ordering his execution alongside five other Egyptian men,...

As the Syrian war approaches its eighth anniversary next month, the reality of the nation’s revolution-gone-wrong could not be starker. Millions have been displaced inside and outside the country,...

Twenty-four-year old Ayatollah Ashraf was arrested from her home in the Qalyubiyah governorate of Egyptian capital Cairo on 3 October 2018. Egyptian security forces broke into the family’s home...

“I could not stomach the way the Arabs, who should really own this country, are being treated by not only the UN but by the government in Palestine,” a...

Khaled Hamdy was arrested on the 27 March 2014 from his home in Egypt. He had been working as a production manager for Egypt 25, a TV channel founded...

MEMO speaks to Palestinian Film Director Dima Abu Ghoush about her award-winning film ‘Emwas: Restoring Memories’

French surgeon Christophe Oberlin has spent 17 years travelling to Gaza. He tells MEMO about the evolution of wounds throughout the years as a result of the changes in weaponry

In the dead of night, Israeli forces knocked on the door of Salah Hamouri’s apartment in Jerusalem, he told me. “When I opened the door they told me they...

The head of Hamas in the Palestinian diaspora has told Quds Press that the movement is working to harness the capacity of all of the people of Palestine in...

“The stories behind the paintings are all stories of resilience, of life loving individuals"

Professor Nadia Yaqub speaks to MEMO about her book "Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution" which launched in London during the Palestine Film Festival

Member of Hamas’ political bureau Mahmoud Al-Zahar announced that he is heading a Palestinian parliamentary delegation on a foreign tour aimed at mobilising support for the Palestinian people. In...

Opposition parties and civil society groups in Egypt must prepare themselves to fight back when President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi changes the constitution to enable him to run for a...

Director Wafa Jamil discusses her film ‘Coffee For All Nations’ ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival tomorrow. Sitting in semi-darkness, Abed brews his coffee. The light from...

Film director Toomas Järvet discusses Rough Stage ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival on 27 November

On Wednesday afternoon the nursery where Rana Greash’s daughter was enrolled called her and invited her for a meeting. “My partner knows who Laila’s father is,” said the manager...

MEMO interviewed former Palestinian prisoner Taysir Suleiman, who now lives in Istanbul, after being released from Israeli prisons in 2011

Dr Anandi Ramamurthy discusses ‘Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution’ ahead of its screening at the London Palestine Film Festival today

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...