Bernard Regan might have simply retired from serving on the National Executive of the National Union of Teachers, and continued to be on the Executive of the Palestine Solidarity...

One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Laila Parsons

Spanning the lifecycle of concrete, the film shows the daily life of the construction workers who live in the basement of the site on which they are building a 22-floor skyscraper

The first impression that sprang to mind upon reading the first few pages of this collection of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry is the impossibility of quantifying the sense of nostalgia...

Dubbed as bringing a little festive cheer to Bethlehem, the place where Christmas was invented, Banksy’s much anticipated documentary film, “Alternativity”, was aired on BBC2 last night. Charting the...

Samah Jabr is one of the first female psychiatrists in Palestine, and one of only 22 psychiatrists serving the occupied West Bank’s 2.5 million strong population. Born in Jerusalem,...

In her capacity as the head of mental health services in the West Bank, Jabr is trying to develop a model of services that corresponds with the resources available

The film, which highlights the plight of Palestinians children was released on International Human Rights Day

Against a modified backdrop of Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”, altered to evoke symbolism of the political differences between Hamas and Fatah, journalist Donald Macintyre notes the absence of...

One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Laila Parsons, talks about her book 'The Commander'

The PBA ceremony is MEMO's flagship event and the culmination of months of hard work.

Travelogues are a well-known genre within medieval literature; from Ibn Battutah to Ibn Jubayr’s travels, they demonstrate how curious these explorers were. In more recent times, the travelogues have...

One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Bjorn Brenner talks about his book 'Gaza Under Hamas'

Middle East Monitor hosted a pre-launch evening for the Palestine Book Awards in London last night, to give members of the public an opportunity to meet the authors of...

Middle East Monitor’s Palestine Book Awards are back for a sixth year. From 7.00pm (GMT) today, we will be live blogging the Awards Ceremony. The Palestine Book Awards started...

The author, Ben Ehrenreich introduces readers to his book “The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine” with this sharp observation: “The world is made not only...

Guests included Lord Paddy Ashdown, Jack Straw and Clare Short

Home Beirut Sounding the Neighbors

A book which takes into account 'imperial history, partition remappings, and post/colonial dislocations'

Butterfly is not your average schoolgirl; at least not if you went to school in the UK. One of her best friends calls herself Dalal Mughrabi after the female...

Ibtisam Barakat’s house in Ramallah is made of memories, not stone, she tells us. It is made of birds migrating in the sky, of her mother and father, of...

Unravelling the definition of exile presents one immediate question as to whether the concept is a burden, a transcendent state or a sliver of fate that opens up a...

An important contribution to the preservation of Palestinian memory, Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre confronts Israel’s efforts to consign it to oblivion through the dimensions of textual narrative and...

Fourteen years have passed since 23-year-old Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by Israeli bulldozers in Gaza. The American activists, along with other members of the International Solidarity Movement...

One of this year winner of the Palestine Book Awards, Ilan Pappé, talks about his book 'The Biggest Prison on Earth'

Syria has become overshadowed by the clutches of conflict and war, leaving millions scattered across the world. Yet amidst the destruction, Syrian culinary culture has endured, because wherever they...

Broken promises, political ambiguity and illegality characterise the unfolding narrative of the 1917 Balfour Declaration and its incorporation into the British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. J. M....

This collection of essays analyses the 1993 agreement between the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. It was published originally in...

Middle East Monitor hosted an all-day conference in London to commemorate and understand the repercussions of the Balfour Declaration 100 years on

Ever since Jewish migration to Palestine started between 1882 and 1903 as part of the Zionist project, conflict between Arabs and Zionists has been prevalent in discussions of literature...

Evoking the politics of the subaltern, “The Naqab Bedouins: a century of politics and resistance” (Columbia University Press, 2017) seeks to address previous gaps in the available literature regarding...

Fighting back against Israel's discourse that Palestinians are violent and peace cannot be achieved with them