
Article
January 5, 2021 |
Eman Abusidu Ali Mazloum is one of millions of migrants whose story illustrates the determination and success of so many Lebanese refugees. When his father Mohammed arrived in Brazil in 1950,...

Article
December 9, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu A friend once told me that I will never be a stranger in Brazil, because there are people from everywhere living there. Walk along any Brazilian street, and you...
![The picture of Laila Khaled on the building [Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image2.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Interviews
December 2, 2020 |
Ahmad Hwedi On 29 August 1969, TWA Flight 840 took off from Los Angeles for Tel Aviv via Rome. There were 116 passengers on board, including a young Palestinian woman called Laila Khaled
A week of solidarity events was launched in Brazil yesterday to coincide with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. An hour-long webinar held by five activists...
![The Municipal Council of Florianopolis and representatives of the Palestinian community on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, November 2019. [Municipal Council of Florianopolis]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Brazil-Pal.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
November 30, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu Shortly before this year's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 164 countries voted in favour for the Palestinians' right to self-determination at a session of the UN...
![Leaders of Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa have gathered in Brasila for the BRICS Leaders Summit, in Brasilia, Brazil, November,13,2019. [Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-1182256178.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
November 30, 2020 |
Bruno Beaklini Rarely in the history of mankind does something positive come out of the nerve centre of financial capital and speculative parasites. The BRICS idea may be a rare exception...
A Lebanese-Brazilian man was arrested in Sao Paolo on Monday on drug trafficking charges, the New Arab reports. Assad Khalil Kiwan was arrested by Brazilian Federal Police as part of...
![Election time, Government Brazilian Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BRAZIL.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
November 23, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu Following the ongoing saga of the US presidential election over the past few weeks, it occurred to me that I am 30 years old and have never voted in...
![The Palestinian Ambassador to Brazil Ibrahim Alzeben, speaks during a 40 years celebration of diplomatic relations between Brazil and Palestine in the Brazilian Senate, September 2019 [Pedro França/Senate Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Palestinian-Ambassador-to-Brazil-Ibrahim-Alzeben.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
November 14, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu It seems that what Brazil's current Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araújo said at the Brazilian Senate in February 2020: "There is unfortunately still vast anti-Israel bias in bodies...
![Eduardo Bolsonaro in an interview with Israeli ambassador to Brazil Yossi Shelley, 24 October 2020 [Twitter]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/duardo-Bolsonaro-in-an-interview-with-Israeli-ambassador-to-Brazil-Yossi-Shelley.png?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
November 7, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu Transferring the Brazilian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is back on the table. This time, however, it's thanks to Brazilian president's son Eduardo Bolsonaro in an interview with...

Article
October 26, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu In Brazil today you can see Arabic dishes alongside local fare on the menu; you might hear occasional Arabic names and words; and someone may even greet you with...
![Palestinian and Brazilian children exchange letters to share their hopes and dreams [Angela Bastos]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/brazil-gaza.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
October 16, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu An exciting project is unfolding between children in Brazil and the Gaza Strip, Palestine, who are exchanging letters to share their hopes and dreams. Conceived by award-winning journalist Angela...

Interviews
October 8, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu Although it is quite normal in many places today, Fatima Hussein is the first Palestinian Muslim woman to be nominated as a candidate in a Brazilian municipal council election....
![Burna Kadletz in Burj Barajneh Palestinian Refugee Camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut, October 2017 [Burna Kadletz/Middle East Monitor]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/37868267_10155995507124191_5656761147634745344_o.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Interviews
September 14, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu In her book and documentary film My land lives in me, Bruna Kadletz weaves a deeply personal journey with stories from refugee camps in Lebanon and Palestine. She believes...
![A protest against Israel’s closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first time since 1967, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 28 July 2017 [Eman Abusidu]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/brazil.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
August 25, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu It seems that Israel is not satisfied with driving 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948, and another 400,000 in 1967; nor with its many massacres of...
![Former Brazilian President Michel Tamer meets with Lebanese Prime Minister, Hassan Diab in Beirut on 14 of August 2020 [Brazilian government news agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image1-e1597658887367.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
August 17, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was created by the Security Council in March 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and restore international peace and security....
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has called on Latin American countries to ban the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah during a meeting with ambassadors from the region yesterday. "Terrorism affects...
Brazil's large Lebanese community has expressed its solidarity with the people of Beirut following this week's massive explosion in the city. The flag of Lebanon dominated buildings in one...
Since Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power, Israel and Brazil have since strengthened bilateral ties
"This adventure nearly cost us lives. One of our colleagues had a heart attack in Cairo"
![Israel's President Shimon Peres (C), Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) and Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim are photographed during meeting at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, November 11, 2009. [EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_0605-scaled-e1595235129715.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Interviews
July 20, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu To read the first part of this interview please click here. With the rise of the extreme right-wing under Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, former ambassador and minister Celso Amorim is...

Reviews
July 19, 2020 |
Anjuman Rahman This is an important book with an ambitious theme: the blockade of Gaza and the Egyptian government’s significant role in perpetuating it.
![Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas (R) shakes hands with Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim during their meeting at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 17 February 2005. [JAMAL ARURI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-52210051.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Interviews
July 6, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu Interview with Celso Amorim, Brazil’s former minister of foreign relations
More than 320 scholars, former presidents and legislators from Latin America joined forces to condemn Israel's planned annexation of parts of the occupied Palestinian territories. In a joint statement,...
![The Israeli and Brazilian flags hang outside the Brazilian Embassy, in Tel Aviv on 28 October 2018 [Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018_10-28-israel-brazilGettyImages-1056294086.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
June 26, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro didn't wait long to tweet, four days after winning the presidential election, of his intentions to move the Brazilian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv...
On 19 June, Brazil voted against a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution which demanded accountability for severe violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territories. The resolution also...
![Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wave to the press during a visit to the Western wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem on 1 April, 2019 [MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-1134284012.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
June 15, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu It seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right when he said in December 2018 that the government of Jair Bolsonaro will bring "a new era" in relations...
![The Palestinian Mahmoud is looking to a map of his home, Palestine [Eman Abusidu- Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/The-Palestinian-Mahmoud-is-looking-to-a-map-of-his-home-Palestine-photo-by-Eman-Abusidu-Middle-East-Monitor-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Interviews
June 5, 2020 |
Eman Abusidu 'The most important thing which Israel must know is that we won’t give up our homeland. We have no life if we don’t return to what is ours by right'
Ramadan 2020, which began on 24 April with the sighting of the crescent moon, has been marked by empty mosques and modest iftars within the confines of family homes.

Blog
March 5, 2020 |
Ramona Wadi Brazilian federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of right-wing dictatorship fanatic President Jair Bolsonaro, announced recently that the country will be moving to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation....
A court in Sidi Mohamed, Algeria, acquitted the son of President Abdelmajid Tebboune on Thursday of corruption-related charges in the real estate sector. At the same time, the main...
Arab and Palestinian community gather to protest against US President Donald Trump's so-called Middle East peace plan