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...

On Monday evening at Senate House the Middle East Monitor welcomed Professor John Keane of the University of Sydney to London to give the inaugural Abdelwahab Elmessiri memorial lecture....

Some 400 journalists and media professionals gathered last week in Istanbul for the first International Palestinian Conference for Media and Communications, an unparalleled opportunity for networking, discussion and strategizing....

Experts and professionals from the world of broadcasting in Europe and the Middle East came together on Thursday for a Middle East Monitor-organised seminar in London on the issue...

A panel discussion at the University of London chaired by Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph brought together a range of critical views on the events in Egypt since...

Last night MEMO launched The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre: Giving peace a chance? report at the House of Commons in Westminster. Hosted by Sir Bob Russell MP,...

Whilst Palestine was the main theme of the Middle East debates at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton this year, Ed Miliband and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander repeatedly...

The Liberal Democrat Party conference opened with an international question and answer session that touched on the topic that would come to dominate the conference’s international focus – Syria....

MEMO Conference: the illusive peace   the legacy of Oslo 20 years on The Oslo Accords, now 20 years old, have been a “complete disaster” for the people of Palestine....

In a room adorned somewhat appropriately with black and white war photography the Senior Editor of Middle East Monitor, Ibrahim Hewitt, launched his book “MEMO to the Editor” at...