Reviews

The author of this account on British Muslims joined the BBC in 1994 after obtaining a first degree in political theory (University of Liverpool) and a spell at law...

Did the bomber pilots of the United Arab Emirates and Egypt really act without Washington's consent when they bombed Libya? It's extremely unlikely. The Americans have a clear motive...

Author: John McHugo Hardcover: 291 pages Publisher: Saqi Books ISBN-10: 0863567533 Review by John Kelly This book comes just a year after John McHugo's Concise History of the Arabs...

  Author: Nurhan Abujid Paperback: 274 pages Publisher: Routledge ISBN-10: 0745334261 Review by Ramona Wadi "The contemporary military urbanisation is about spatial engineering and reorganisation via complex surveillance and...

British colonialist rule was in part, supported by perfecting the ideology of divide and rule. Their mastery of this ensured several centuries of colonial subjugation that propelled the British...

As the trickle of senior Israeli army officers talking up the military achievements of the last three weeks has turned into a stream, one can assume they have had...

Ilan Pappé makes a succinct statement in the introduction to his latest book: "Indeed, Israel is one of a few states considered by many to be at best morally...

Parliamentary debate: The Middle East and North Africa Live updates on the parliamentary debate, 'The Middle East and North Africa', in Westminster Hall We will be live blogging throughout...

Syrian vulnerable persons relocation scheme At a Westminster Hall debate this afternoon in the British parliament, MP Sarah Teather will be discussing the effectiveness of the Vulnerable Persons Relocation...

Author: Nicholas Gilby Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Pluto Press ISBN-10: 0745334261 Review by Alastair Sloan To say the international arms trade is corrupt is much like asserting that water...

Moving swiftly from one euphemism to another, Israeli atrocities in Gaza under "Protective Edge" have predictably targeted civilian areas, resulting in further killing, rendering people homeless and causing injuries....

At a seminar in Westminster, London hosted by the Middle East Monitor (MEMO), journalists and human rights experts gathered to hear discussion around one of the lesser known traits...

Deconstructing the mythological 'right to land' would prove a crucial requirement to achieve an understanding of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Shlomo Sand's new book, The Invention of...

In George Orwell's novel 1984, Winston Smith, whose job it is to edit historical documents so they reflect the party line, reads from Goldstein's book. "In accordance to the...

Janan Abdu is a Palestinian social and feminist campaigner and researcher. Her husband Ameer Makhoul is also a human rights activist on behalf of Palestinians living in Israel; imprisoned,...

Meticulously researched, Hamas and Civil Society: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector (Princeton University Press, 2011) is a significant study of Hamas and Gaza's social institutions. The evolution of Hamas...

Every week, inmates at the Israeli prison of Beer Al-Sabe' hold political debates inside their cells. What are the benefits of negotiations with Israel; how useful is the Palestine...

Denationalisation is the fundamental problem of Palestinians. The systematic annihilation of fundamental freedoms for Palestinians has resulted in an ongoing process of changes in demography, geography and social structure....

"Whenever you have mutual interests between even two enemies and they agree on how to deal with it so they both profit that's perfect, that's exactly what you want...

On Monday evening at Senate House the Middle East Monitor welcomed Professor John Keane of the University of Sydney to London to give the inaugural Abdelwahab Elmessiri memorial lecture....

The frailty of hope and the power of resistance weave an intricate story of contrasts. When the country in question is Palestine, hope and resistance merge and deviate as...

"We come together on this book not because we agree on everything – we don't – but because of a shared belief that Jews and Palestinians are destined to...

Flouting international human rights law and international humanitarian law, Israel's occupation of Palestine veers towards the illegal and illegitimate. Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International law in the Occupied...

It's 2012 and Leila Khaled can still manage to stir-up controversy. In May, the staff members at Manchester's branch of the Blackwell's bookshop were inundated with phone calls; the...

Antony Lerman has spent his whole working life at the heart of the Jewish community. While he is now well known for his radical views on Israel, it was...

I never met Kathleen's late husband Bill, though after reading 'It's All Right, I'm Only Crying', I feel as though I know him. I know that he liked to...

It has been often said that the conflict in Palestine cannot be resolved without a fundamental change of policy in Washington. There is some truth in this. No other...

It's the abundance of Raja Shehadeh's daily accounts, filled with frustration and despair, which makes you realise just how far the Israeli occupation reaches into every corner of Palestinians'...

Few issues on the world stage are more divisive than the Israel-Palestine conflict, which triggers a powerful emotional response even among people with little direct stake in it. But...

Recent statements made by the British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, indicate a decline in British public and political support for Israel. It also indicates how much European public...

Let me start with a confession: I am a signed-up member of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel, as well as the Friends of Palestine. Why? Because I am...

To many observers, Iran's foreign policy is at best unclear and, at worst, unpredictable. This study by Mahboubeh Sadeghinia offers an in-depth explanation of the complex factors that have...