Videos & Photo Stories

Weekly round up of all the major news stories from 27th February - 4th March 2016

Palestine Remix is an interactive tool that allows users to view or use parts of various Al Jazeera documentary films on Palestine to create their own productions. MEMO will...

Osama Spitah, 24, from Al-Shuja'iyya in Gaza has been honing his skills for the past two years and has now become a prominent artist. He has made an impression...

The Palestinian journalist who was on hunger strike for 93 days in protest against his administrative detention by Israel has met his family for the first time since his...

During the First Intifada, with Palestinians often confined to their houses under lengthy curfews the clandestine scrawling of messages on walls in refugee camps, cities and villages became acts...

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Weekly round up of all the major news stories from 19th -26th February 2016

In his speeches, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi tries to shape his unique national character through which he tries to appear close to the masses. He does so via...

Around 300 human sculptures have been deployed 14 metres beneath the Atlantic Ocean to form a new underwater museum, called Museo Atlantico. Situated in the clear blue waters off...

Mamoun Dalloul is busy rebuilding his dairy factory, which was destroyed for the third time in 2014 during Israel's latest major offensive against the Gaza Strip. "We face numerous...

Palestinian teachers at governmental school have now been on strike for more than one week in protest at low wages and amidst claims of the Palestinian Authority retreating on...

After Brandon Stanton, an American photographer, lost his job as a bond trader in Chicago, he moved to New York and launched his famous photography project "Humans of New...

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Weekly round up of all the major news stories from 12th -19th February 2016

"30 years ago people in the camp grew vegetables, fruit and herbs inside the camp in buckets and empty oil cans. This continued the farming traditions which stretch back...

Ahmed Mohamed Yassin, 21, a Palestinian university student uses a rather unusual tool to carve his paintings. Yassin uses cacti or prickly pears to embody Palestinian suffering and aspirations....

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov yesterday called on the two rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas to achieve reconciliation based on democratic...

Israel's Supreme Court yesterday rejected hunger-striking prisoner Muhammad Al-Qeeq's demand to be moved to a hospital in the occupied West Bank, the head of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees...

Copies of Islamic manuscripts held by a Dutch university went on show in the Gaza Strip yesterday. The “Book of Islamic Art” exhibition was opened by the Netherlands Representative...

Many Palestinians have this morning been injured as Israeli occupation forces invaded Ramallah's al-Amari refugee camp, surrounding a house in the camp. It is being reported that the Israeli...

The besieged rebel-held city of Douma in Syria, located 10 kilometres northeast of Damascus, has been attacked countless times by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad both from the...

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Weekly round up of all the major news stories from 5th -12th February 2016

Palestinian cities brought to a standstill in support of Al-Qeeq Major Palestinian cities were brought to a standstill from 6pm yesterday as demonstrations were held demanding the immediate release...

US President Barack Obama said on Monday that tumult in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the result of governments’ negligence of their people's needs. He...

"Art is a threat because it's a non-violent form of resistance and even non-violent forms of resistance are a threat; sometimes actually they are a greater threat." At Home...

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For many centuries, glassware and ceramics have been produced in the West Bank's industrial heartland of Hebron. It is thought that it was the Phoenicians who first developed glass-blowing...

In spite of being blind, Raed Al-Reefi’s disability has not stopped him from continuing to make a living through car repairs. Al-Reefi suffered a stroke to his eye. The...

Israeli authorities yesterday force-fed Palestinian hunger striking journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq, who has been held under administrative detention since November, Issa Qaraqei, the head of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners' Committee,...

Israeli Knesset member Yousef Jabareen speaks to MEMO about the discrimination and exclusion Arab citizens face in Israel.

A group of Palestinian elites in Gaza announced on Saturday the start of a hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq, who has been on hunger...