Middle East Monitor takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the Middle East and North Africa in 2020

The winners of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced yesterday following another year of strong submissions

The Centre for Middle East and Africa (CMEA) in collaboration with Middle East Monitor organised a webinar entitled "Kashmir & Palestine: The destruction of Indigenous Cultural Heritage" on 10...

Supporters of Israel would have breathed a sigh of relief when the Zionist state postponed its 2 July annexation of the West Bank, in what was a humiliating about-turn....

A seminar in London yesterday considered the position of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Organised by Palestinian youth group OLIVE and the...

Palestinian ambassador Ali Kazak arrived in Australia in 1970, at the peak of the Palestinian revolutionary political and military activity. He found that the Zionist narrative was prevalent in...

Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh's striking photograph titled "The past, the present and the future" depicts three women with blue skin; it is extremely evocative, and reminiscent of the painting...

The seventh annual Rise Up summit took place on 5-7 December at the American University in Cairo. The largest entrepreneurial gathering across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA),...

Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian territory, as well as the efforts that Israel goes to to impose second-class citizen status on Palestinian citizens and inhabitants of the occupied West...

The Arab-British Chamber of Commerce was the venue for yesterday's workshop organised by the Academic Forum Muhammad Ali Luqman and supported by Independent Diplomat focussing on civil society, women's...

Speakers at MEMO’s latest conference ‘The Palestine Question in Europe’ discuss Hamas, anti-Semitism and how Israel has become an example of how the West should live

Hani Jawherieh was a Palestinian photographer and cinematographer and one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit

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

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

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

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...

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,...

'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,...

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

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!

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

"Since the Nation-State Law has been adopted, many other laws have been voted to discriminate the Arab citizens in Israel"

'The event is about environment and resistance'

The contemporary art world has flocked for the Sharjah Biennial in the past month

A night of compelling debate at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Monday evening concluded with 63 per cent of the 1,000-strong audience voting for the motion that "The...

Palestinian anthropologist Suhad Jarrar-Browne at 'BAYT | The Art of Arab Hospitality'

Embroidered by Palestinian women, the Palestine History Tapestry is composed of embroidered panels depicting Palestinian history from Neolithic times to the present

How can we tackle the Israeli narrative about Palestine's past and present, when the Palestinian people continue to struggle against Israel's colonial occupation which bases its existence on a...