Smoke fills the small studio, the lights dim and the room falls silent as the audience is transported away from London to a stage in Ramallah. Thus begins the...

 “No one has put the Palestinian experience in visual terms so austerely and yet so playfully, so compellingly and at the same moment so allusively,” Edward Said on Mona...

The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) and Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) collaborated in organising a launch event for Dr. Salman Abu Sitta’s latest book, Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir....

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign hosted a day conference in London to commemorate 68 years since the Nakba or Catastrophe. The conference focused on the consequences of the events that...

Today in London a new report entitled The Israel lobby and the European Union is being released. Researched and written by Public Interest Investigations and Spinwatch and published by EuroPal Forum,...

Middle East Monitor hosted the third annual lecture to honour the memory, scholarship and achievement of Abdelwahab Elmessiri, the late Egyptian thinker, yesterday. The event highlighted how Elmessiri went...

Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef has retained his ability to divide audiences years after being removed from TV screens by authorities in his native country. During a live performance on...

In order to help people understand and appreciate Iraq's rich culture and the true essence of the people, Philip Juma is hoping to connect Londoners with the country's rich and varied cuisine.

London’s P21 Gallery is presenting a group exhibition entitled “Jerusalem//Home”, bringing together the photographic works of four young photographers from Jerusalem, ceramic works by two London-based artists, and digital...

Mohamed Soltan, who went on a 490 day hunger strike in protest against being illegally detained by the Egyptian military for campaigning for freedom, last night awed an audience...

Thin sheets of muslin cloth hang, tendril-like, from small wooden rods; suspended, floating, in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows of the long gallery. The light from the windows...

Israel and Egypt had complete authority over the strip’s borders, and a security perimeter within Gaza was erected by the Israeli army that blocked entry to some of the...

Speaking at a one-day conference in London, Latin American diplomats call for tougher policies, including sanctions and boycotts, against Israel for its ‘polices of apartheid.’ A year after Israel...

Exile and war have long been dominant themes in the work of Iraqi artist Yousif Naser; pain and death rendered in large, black strokes, a chaotic jumble of eerie...

A new report by Spinwatch, a public interest investigation group, provides an in-depth scrutiny of The Henry Jackson Society and the Degeneration of British Neo-conservatism; it examines the history,...

In ancient Mesopotamia kings would return from conquests with plants. They were trophies in the same way treasure was and there was a certain status attached to procuring them:...

“Films always bring this personal, individual narrative to the story, which I don’t think you find so easily elsewhere,” comments Andrea Holley, strategic director of the Human Rights Watch...

The book is heavy, somewhat fragile despite its bulk, the papers stained yellow with age and hardened by dust and time. The inside leaf showcases a mesmerising scrawl of...

“What does it mean when a society disintegrates? What do people do? How do they make sense of a world in which the human dimension is missing completely?” Iraqi...

I wear you and take off the days.There is no history before your hands.There is no history after your hands.They call you the alternative.I do not have language, between...

Photographer Simon Norfolk‘s best known photograph is of the shell of a tea house in Afghanistan. A balloon seller is set against the back drop of the ruined building....

The deterioration in relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia as a result of the military coup in Egypt was obvious for all to see. However, relations between the two...

In the Queen’s Gallery, London, Sophie Gordon draws my attention to a collection of papyri on the wall. They have faded with age and some are ripped across the...

In the first of three events with the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian American journalist and a leading proponent of the Palestinian cause spoke at Imperial...

For a whole week, from 19 to 25 September, one would indulge in rich filmic evenings, the likes of which one has either forgotten about or been longing to...

Indications in the Middle East suggest the emergence of a new approach to the situation in Syria. They are being scrutinised on the domestic, regional and international level and...

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...

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...

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...

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...