Publications

During the 1967 Six Day War, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Israel. Fifty-two years later this brutal military occupation remains in place, with the West...

Palestinian citizens of Israel – who number around 1.8 million people and amount to just over 20 per cent of Israel's population – are often ignored by the broader...

Peace negotiations have been pushed to the verge of disappearance which suggests that a solution will continue to be delayed

Here are just seven of the most common myths about Israel’s Separation Wall and the reality they conceal.

  For 11 years, Israel has imposed an unforgiving siege on the Gaza Strip. With severely restricted access in and out of the enclave — via land, air and,...

In 2016 UK investments in Egypt topped $30 billion. Instead of using their influence to force Egypt to behave, the UK has awarded Sisi with $500,000 of investment for every Egyptian locked up for pro-democracy protests.

On the 6 December, US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, causing widespread controversy and anger across the world. Whilst the announcement was nearly unanimously...

A largely neglected instrument of legal Israeli repression used against the Palestinian people is that of administrative detention. Thousands of men, as well as women and children, are held...

By the end of August 2017, 112,450 Eritreans were registered as refugees and asylum seekers in Sudan

Senior Israeli officials who are against a two-state solution

For more than two decades, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been at the forefront of the fight against all forms of what is usually referred to as political...

This month marks four years since a delegation of prominent British lawyers published a report on the treatment of Palestinian children under Israeli military law. The Foreign Office funded...

Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations in Beirut has issued the Executive Summary of The Palestinian Strategic Report (PSR) 2014–2015 and the Expected Trends for 2016–2017. The PSR is...

In November 2015, the Israeli government outlawed the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in the country, using British Mandate-era "Emergency Regulations" to do so. Following this decision, a...

On Thursday December 10th 2015, one of my friends responsible for human rights situation inside Egypt sent me an alarming message describing the violations occurred in the Egyptian infamous...

This is the text of a keynote address delivered at the Arabic Day celebrated by the Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi on 18 December 2015. The author, Dr...

Download the full transcript of the keynote address by Karen Koning AbuZayd at MEMO's Palestine Book Awards 2015. This address was delivered on November 19th 2015, in London. Karen...

The ethnic origins of those living in Jordan are many and contrasting. The current ruling royal family are “Hashemite” descendants of the Sharifs of Makkah and the Hijaz, while...

This is the text of a lecture was delivered at the 3-day International Conference on 'How to Understand and Co-exist with Radical Islam' at RCA Girls PG College, Virindavan,...

Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies & Consultations presents the paper “Building Solidarity for Palestine in Latin America”, by Dr Daud Abdullah, director of Middle East Monitor. For more than 100 years,...

Set up under the 1993 Oslo Accords, security coordination involves the sharing of intelligence between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The PA was also established under Oslo. Before the...

Download the full transcript of the address by Wadah Khanfar at the MEMO international conference: Palestine & Latin America in the 21st century. This address was delivered on August...

The following essay, 'Apartheid & Cultural Boycott: Then and now', is based on a lecture of the same name given by Ben White at the Southbank Centre in London on...

Download the full transcript of the address by HE Roberto Calzadilla Sarmiento at the MEMO international conference: Palestine & Latin America in the 21st century. This address was delivered...

Download the full transcript of the address by HE Roberto Calzadilla Sarmiento at the MEMO international conference: Palestine & Latin America in the 21st century. This address was delivered...

  Israel and Egypt had complete authority over the strip's borders, and a security perimeter within Gaza was erected by the Israeli army that blocked entry to some of...

Download the full transcript of the address by Jorge Luis Garcia at the MEMO international conference: Palestine & Latin America in the 21st century. This address was delivered on...

Che Guevara's visit to Gaza in 1959 was the first sign of transforming the Zionist colonization of Palestine from a regional conflict to a global struggle against colonialism. The...

In examining apartheid South Africa, Elmessiri's concept of Israel as a "Functional Zionist State," illustrates a symbiotic relationship between the settler colonialism of both entities. He presented this thesis...

Since the establishment of the state, Israel's policies have been based on racism in all of its aspects. They crystallise in many issues and are aimed against the indigenous...

Mohamed Soltan describes his room in the prison hospital as a glorified cell. By glorified he means that the room has an actual bed for him to sleep on,...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are risking their lives to enterEurope as asylum seekers, but what awaits them are a range ofinformal and inadequate procedures, some of which only have...