Join us for a live conversation with journalist and commentator Sangar Paykhar as we discuss the latest developments in Afghanistan. Paykhar was born in Kabul 1982. During the Afghan...

ATO's 20-year military mission in Afghanistan is coming to an end but what does the country’s future look like now? Senior Expert on Afghan Peace Proceess based in Doha, Abdul Waris Khan talks to MEMO

Join us for a live conversation with Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Alireza Doostdar, to discuss occultism,...

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Prof. Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust.

Join us for a live conversation with Lynn Gaspard

Palestinian lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh won the 2008 Orwell Prize for 'Palestinian Walks'.

Qumsiyeh has published well over 150 scientific papers on topics ranging from cultural heritage to biodiversity in addition to several books.

Professor Falk is a former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, serving in the role from March 2008 until May 2014.

MEMO's Jehan Alfarra speaks with two Palestinian women based in the Gaza Strip and Haifa to discuss the escalating situation in Palestine.

MEMO interviewed Rasha Budeiri, a Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, and discussed the imminent threat of forcible eviction by Israeli authorities her family is facing.

Watch our conversation with the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, discussing the organisation's latest report which found that Israeli authorities are committing apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.

Watch our live conversation with Palestinian sociologist Professor Salim Tamari who, in 2018, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Prize for his outstanding scholarly contributions to the social history of Palestine.

Scheck has been writing about Saudi Arabia since 2016. A graduate of Bates College, he worked at small newspapers in California before starting his career at the Journal in 2007. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an Emmy nominee.

Watch our conversation with Middle East Monitor Director Dr Daud Abdullah discussing his latest book ‘Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas's Foreign Policy’

Abulhawa is the co-chair of Palestine Writes, the first North American Palestinian literature festival. Her debut novel ‘Mornings in Jenin’ is considered a classic in Anglophile Palestinian literature.

As we mark 10 years since the launch of the Palestine Book Awards, watch our live conversation with Nathalie Handal discussing her seventh poetry collection 'Life in a Country Album', which won the Palestine Book Awards Creative Prize last year.

Watch our interview with leading Palestinian abstract artist and influential scholar Samia Halaby

Watch out interview with the CEO of the Syrian news outlet Deir Ezzor 24

Our conversation with British-Iranian writer, theatremaker and director Javaad Alipoor discussing his most recent play 'Rich Kids', the Iranian politics that underline it and the role of art in politics.

Watch our interview with anthropologist, author, lecturer and political activist Jeff Halper

Arguments presented by Dr Warren highlight the ongoing battle to control the narrative about the Arab Spring

Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

Our interview with Mauritanian-American activist Nasser Weddady discussing corruption in Mauritania

Our interview with Egyptian journalist Abdurrahman Ezz

The WSF is an international open space organised by civil society, social movements and NGOs in order to articulate alternatives to neoliberal globalisation.

Watch our interview with Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi

Our interview with Professor John L. Esposito and head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Dr Maha Azzam discussing 10 years since the outbreak of the Arab Spring.

Our interview with Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, historian of nationalism and race at King's College London, about Islamophobia in France in light of President Emmanuel Macron's recent comments about Islam being 'in crisis'.

Watch our interview with Jeremy Wildeman, a fellow at Ottawa University's Human Rights Research and Education Centre

Our interview with Omar Salha, research and teaching fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS

Our interview with co-founder of the Celebrating Syria Festival Abir Tobji