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.

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Download the text of Prof John Keane’s lecture: “The New Despotisms of the 21st Century: Imagining the end of democracy“. Delivered in May 2014 in London, this was the inaugural...

This report examines the ongoing role of Israel’s systematic and criminal programme of forced evictions in mandate Palestine. Our fieldwork took us from East Jerusalem and Ramallah, to the...

Last week, Facebook banned “Syrian refugees for marriage”, a page that had had numerous complaints about its abusive message. Promoting the capitalisation of vulnerable Syrian refugee girls and their...

Sectarian strife, catalysed by chronic national marginalisation, severe economic and infrastructural decline and state negligence are all combining to push the once-prosperous commercial hub of Tripoli in north Lebanon...

Hamas can no longer be regarded by the United States simply as a terrorist organisation. Any attempts at solving the Arab-Israeli conflict, or broader conflicts in the region, will...

Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) concluded on Thursday a meeting in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in which they conducted a thorough revision of the measures exercised...

On April 15, 2014, France plans to arrange an informal confidential gathering of Security Council members (a so-called “Arria-formula” meeting) in order to consider a report on the mass...

Last month top UN officials warned that Syrians are expected to surpass Afghans as the world’s largest refugee population. Going into the fourth year of the bloody revolution-turned-war, an...

Ever since the symbolism of 26 year-old Tunisian Mohammed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in December 2010, and the subsequent eruption of a people’s revolution in Tunisia, the Middle East has been...

As media institutions and NGOs are faced with a growing de-sensitisation regarding the Syrian revolution, which has turned into a vicious war, new methods are put into practice. Do...

It seems to be the official message from Lebanon that Palestinians have long overstayed their not so pleasant stay. Testing times ahead for Lebanon, then, with the difficult accommodation...

Palestinian refugees in Syria are facing difficult and tragic conditions, as a result of the uprising there and the conflict between the regime and the opposition. Of the 160...