For the past few weeks, Lebanon has been rocked by anti-government protests calling for a change in the ruling system and an end to corruption, economic decay and political...

“The rain was not in a docile mood.” Huzama Habayeb’s opening sentence of her novel Velvet (Hoopoe Fiction, 2019), beckons the reader to delve into intertwining worlds: the extravagance...

One would be at stretch to find another place on earth where the mining of history evokes as much controversy as Palestine. You would struggle even further to name...

The winners of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced on November 1st in London, in recognition of authors and their contribution to the literature on the subject of Palestine.

The 8th awards evening will take place in London tonight, with the shortlisted authors joining members of the public to discuss their works

It is currently olive harvest season in Palestine, which makes it the perfect time to talk about Yasmin Khan’s book Zaitoun, which translates to 'olive' in Arabic

In the spirit of the Festival – born as a multimedia platform – Libya. Back Home brings multimedia art to the stage

For decades, Palestine has been framed by international law. This convenient perspective, rendered mainstream by the international community and the Palestinian Authority, has made international law a weapon to...

From the late sixties up until the early eighties Palestinians formed a resistance movement to liberate their homeland and ensure the return of their refugees. A vital part of...

From 2-9 October across six cities in historic Palestine, 60 Palestinian and international films are being screened to thousands of audience members.

The festival is to give Palestinians the platform and tools necessary for telling their stories, all while reviving the cinema culture in Palestine.

Gardner Thompson’s book, Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel (Saqi Books, 2019) opens with a brief observation that contradicts all mainstream propaganda which spouts the...

It is exactly one year since Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where he was met by a team of Saudi assassins, hand-picked presumably by the...

When discussing the Palestinian cause from the Nakba to the Great March of Return, many things spring to mind: the phenomenon of Zionism and its gradual takeover of Palestine;...

“Baris.” He sighed. “It is where my life is.” So Faruq Al-Azmeh, the “one other Arab on board the ship to Marseille”, told an impressionable Midhat Kamal as he...

Literature about Palestine by Palestinian authors is like a deluge of insights into what is missing from what we proclaim to know. Our knowledge is dominated by news reports...

Theatre as an act of re-imagining and storytelling is an approach displayed masterfully in the new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production A Museum in Baghdad. In conversation with MEMO,...

The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History by Ross Caputi, Richard Hil and Donna Mulhearn makes for chilling reading as it takes us inside the three sieges that the...

The colonisation of Palestinian landscape and minds, author Greg Burris argues, is imbued with spaces in what he terms “the radical imagination” that breaks through Israeli impositions. Film and...

'Taking the message into our towns, cities and villages is something that we can do relatively easily, and lets the Palestinians know that they have not been forgotten'

The Big Ride for Palestine came to Britain’s capital city on Saturday to fly the flag and raise awareness across London of the Israeli occupation. Almost 150 cyclists braved...

With a special screening of Jeremy Hardy versus the Israeli Army, a packed hall at London’s Greenwood Theatre paid a fitting tribute on Tuesday to the late Jeremy Hardy,...

Palestinian memory has become synonymous with the 1948 Nakba and Palestinian resistance. Yet there are other strands of memory which are overlooked. Farah Aboubakr’s treatise “The Folktales of Palestine”...

An exhibition in London shone a light on the loss of life which results from people being forced to risk their lives to survive

Nakba-themed anthologies dispel the concept of linear time and chronology. The brutal and abrupt halting of pre-1948 Palestinian life remains a reference point in Palestinian history, memory and literature,...

We are witnessing the global retreat of democracy under an “age of impunity,” warned former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a Fulbright Lecture last month. The former Labour...

The two-day festival of music, art, culture blended with sharp lectures and powerful poems opened at Olympia London Exhibition Centre over the weekend!

The two-day festival of music, art, culture blended with sharp lectures and powerful poems opened at Olympia London Exhibition Centre over the weekend!

In these times of a growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement regarding the apartheid state of Israel, public opinion is finally changing, even if those in the large...

Palestinian entrepreneurs gather at the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce for Palestine Entrepreneurship Day to promote Palestinian startups and help young entrepreneurs meet and network with the UK business community

In The Book of Disappearance, Palestinian novelist Ibtisam Azem has crafted a masterpiece which immediately leads the reader to ponder the historical foundations of the 1948 Nakba, as well...

No matter how prevalent refugee stories have become in the media, the dissociation between the terminology and the people keeps growing. Jehan Bseiso and Becky Thompson address this absence...