The Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs began on Tuesday to distribute Turkish humanitarian aid to poor families in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

When Nai’s mum was pregnant with her second daughter she asked her neighbours to help think of a name. “If I had a third daughter I would call her...

Earlier this month, the Iraq Inquiry Report, better known as the Chilcot report, was published. But what is the Chilcot report? And what is it for? British troops were...

Approximately 100 Turkish nationals from neighbouring states converged on Fetullah Gulen's Saylorsburg residence

For a quick and easy dinner that can feed 1 or a crowd, try these delicious lamb chops. I guarantee they are better than any takeaway you’ll pick up!

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Waving Turkish and Palestinian flags, hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Khan Younis on Saturday to voice support for Turkey’s elected government

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Noticing that the young Arab generation no longer speak or use Arabic, Hazboun decided to use her work to promote the beauty of the language.

Born into a Jewish family in New York in 1930, Richard Falk grew up to become a distinguished academic, author and public speaker. He is now a professor emeritus...

Official statistics show that there are more than 7,000 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails, including more than 400 under administrative detention

New Israeli demolitions of Palestinian structures in the Occupied West Bank have been condemned by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East...

Thousands of students went to their schools to receive their high school certificates and give away sweets to their colleagues and teachers.

A petition urging world leaders to ‘Lift the Gaza blockade’ is approaching 700,000 signatures, as organisers mark two years since ‘Operation Protective Edge’. The petition, hosted on the Avaaz...

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Two years on from the onset of Israel’s 51-day war on Gaza, life in the besieged Strip is virtually hopeless for the 1.8 million people living there. The 2014...

Markets in the Gaza Strip witnessed a type of hysteria last night as shoppers prepared for Eid Al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration to mark the end of Ramadan. Shoppers picked...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has condemned the latest punitive home demolitions carried out by Israeli authorities in the...

There has been a notable increase in worldwide grassroots action attempting to hold Israel accountable for its large-scale violations of international law and Palestinian human rights as well as...

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At least 147 people were killed in a suicide bomb explosion in the busy shopping district of Karrada in central Baghdad in the early hours of Sunday morning. In...

If there were one universal ingredient used in the Middle East, it would have to be dates. The region is full of an amazing variety of dates and it...

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Incessant Israeli incursions on Islamic sites in Occupied Palestinians have resulted in mounting tension between the two sides and manifest as fierce riots and clashes. MEMO manages to speak...

It was perhaps the most over-looked and important speech in recent British political history, and it was delivered in the United States, not Britain. The speech was given in...

Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza yesterday in a massive demonstration to mark the now annual Quds Day

As the Syrian civil war grinds through its sixth year, Aleppo has become the focus of intensified fighting. Once Syria’s economic hub, Aleppo is now divided between government forces...

A mushroom farm in Jericho, an heirloom seed library, a project to introduce Kale to the Palestinian market and a local farmers’ cooperative – these small agricultural projects are...

  Further clashes erupted at the Al-Aqsa compound yesterday and today after Israeli forces stormed the area once again during the last 10 days of the Muslim holy month...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to lift its “suffocating” siege on the Gaza Strip today. Speaking during a trip to the besieged coastal enclave, Ban called...

Clashes broke out at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning as Israeli forces opened two gates to tourists and settlers during the last 10 days of the Muslim...

For the fifth year, visually impaired children in Gaza joined the Qur’an recitation course held during the holy month of Ramadan to learn how to read the Holy Book....