“The stories told about Palestine-Israel are as notable for what they exclude as they are for what they include.” This is an apt introduction to the three main narratives...

What we are accustomed to reading as structured news items or analysis about Palestine quickly dissipate in Richard Hardigan’s book “The Other Side of the Wall: an eyewitness account...

Al Jazeera’s Investigations Unit has exposed the breath-taking speed with which Islamophobia is spreading in American society

Israel’s colonial violence against Palestinians has produced several trajectories encroaching upon the indigenous population and their geophysical space. As a result, Palestinian resilience and resistance has been diverse, a...

Dima Al-Samman is a contemporary Palestinian-Jerusalemite novelist. She was born and raised in occupied Jerusalem and earned her bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Birzeit University. Further studies saw her...

Last night MEMO hosted Ramzy Baroud as he launched his new book The Last Earth in front of a packed lecture theatre at Imperial College, London

“On the first day of their journey, they walked for twenty long hours. On the second, they walked from eight in the morning until three the next morning. No...

To impart narratives of displacement, it is important to listen to the echoes of such trajectories. Ramzy Baroud’s latest book, The Last Earth: a Palestinian story, propels this dimension...

Beyond the accessible narratives in the form of reports and news briefs which run the risk of normalising decades of colonial violence against Palestinians, art manages to impart the...

MEMO's international conference on Saturday discussed the consequences of Trump's unilateral decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognise the Holy City as the capital of Israel

The live blog from our conference will begin at 10am GMT on Saturday, 3rd March 2018

Arab designers take to the catwalk at London Fashion Week

Since the beginning of the Saudi-led “Operation Decisive Storm” in March 2015, information regarding Yemen has proven to be scarce. Most of the voices on Yemen are provided by...

Last year, 2017, was the centennial anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the public statement of support issued by the British government at the height of WWI promising Palestine to...

It is a rare occurrence that an analytical treatise can navigate the humanitarian spectrum without falling prey to dissociation. Yet it is precisely this achievement which makes “Gaza: an...

A radio babbles unintelligibly in the background, the helmet of a soldier outlined against the grill of a military vehicle. The light flickers across nameless faces, bloodied and blindfolded...

Weaving personal stories intricately with unique insights from the world of international diplomacy, Donald Macintyre’s book Gaza: Preparing for Dawn paints a vivid picture of this small strip of...

Ibrahim Nasrallah has woven a tale in which themes intertwine; where possibilities and peril are never isolated from each other. “Gaza Weddings” (Hoopoe Press, 2017) immediately presents the reader...

Eyal Weizman commences his discussion of humanitarian violence with a succinct reflection: “It is through the collateral – flood or blood – that a government – divine or human...

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...

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...