October 3, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
October 2, 2019 |
Nasim Ahmed 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...
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Videos & Photo Stories September 30, 2019 |
Muhammad Hussein 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;...
September 23, 2019 |
Rebecca Stead "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...
September 13, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
September 10, 2019 |
Nazli Tarzi 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,...
September 3, 2019 |
Usman Butt 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...
August 7, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
August 5, 2019 |
Ibrahim Hewitt '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'
July 29, 2019 |
Ibrahim Hewitt 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...
July 25, 2019 |
Jehan Alfarra 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,...
July 20, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi 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"...
July 17, 2019 |
Amelia Smith An exhibition in London shone a light on the loss of life which results from people being forced to risk their lives to survive
July 15, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi 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,...
July 10, 2019 |
Nasim Ahmed 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...
July 7, 2019 |
Hannah Szeto The two-day festival of music, art, culture blended with sharp lectures and powerful poems opened at Olympia London Exhibition Centre over the weekend!
July 7, 2019 |
Nasim Ahmed The two-day festival of music, art, culture blended with sharp lectures and powerful poems opened at Olympia London Exhibition Centre over the weekend!
July 5, 2019 |
Andy Simons 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...
June 20, 2019 |
Jehan Alfarra 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
June 12, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
June 6, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi 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...
May 30, 2019 |
Usman Butt It is not usual to begin a book review with a quote from elsewhere, but, "Bad men need nothing more to compress their ends, than that good men should...
May 24, 2019 |
Andy Simons Those familiar with the ever-twisting gyrations of the Zionist project know that it was not just one of bully-boy bigotry but of employment leverage and advantage. Early on, the...
May 23, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi The international community, through the Oslo Accords, has created an intricate web of terminology that points towards a permanently stalled state-building process. In their book, The Palestinian Authority in...
May 15, 2019 |
Nada El-Hammoud One Day in Gaza is a BBC Current Affairs production for BBC and WGBH/Frontline made by award-winning documentary maker Olly Lambert and broadcast on Monday, 13 May, 2019, on BBC2.
May 8, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi An unfulfilled desire has no sanctuary other than remembrance. Radwa Ashour's novel, The Woman from Tantoura (Hoopoe Fiction, 2019), explores the ramifications of memory and how its story is...
"Since the Nation-State Law has been adopted, many other laws have been voted to discriminate the Arab citizens in Israel"
April 18, 2019 |
Ramona Wadi Mats Svensson, a former Swedish diplomat whose personal experience of Palestine opened up the possibility of rethinking through Palestinian narratives, clarifies the role of diplomacy in the preface to...
April 16, 2019 |
Asa Winstanley Some years ago, I met a landlord briefly who was an Iraqi. After volunteering to tell me his land of origin, he began to explain his theory that ISIS...
'The event is about environment and resistance'
April 5, 2019 |
Naima Morelli The contemporary art world has flocked for the Sharjah Biennial in the past month
April 2, 2019 |
Suja Sawafta As voices continue to emerge within the tradition of Anglo-Arab fictions, one constant within these narratives is the conversation surrounding the negotiation of identities between one's traditional culture vis-à-vis...