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Nakba commemoration is taking on a new meaning
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Iran's President Raisi, FM Amir Abdollahian die in helicopter crash
Rescuers recovered the bodies of the Iranian president, foreign minister and six other passengers and crew after a helicopter crash in northern Iran near the border with Azerbaijan. The helicopter crashed in bad weather - although officials aren't ruling out third party interference - in the Dizmar Forest in a mountainous region of Iran, making rescue efforts for the Iranian Red Crescent extremely difficult.
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Int’l community extends one hand with aid to Gaza, other with weapons to bomb it, Al-Azhar says
The world is suffering from “schizophrenia”, Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, said yesterday, adding...
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Interfaith coexistence in a time of war: MEMO in Conversation with Dr Amineh Hoti
Peoples, communities and faith groups are being utilised to kill one another, but while different communities can clash this is not the only possibility, we can learn a lot about religious and cultural harmony from the Islamic rule of Spain, the leading conflict mediation expert says.
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The Global Tribunal on Palestine is set to begin its work
Since the announcement in early March of the establishment of the Global Tribunal on Palestine (GTP) by five human rights NGOs based in Geneva, efforts have been underway to ensure the success of this event. Dozens of jurists, lawyers, judges, historians and philosophers are taking part. MEMO has been following this event closely since its inception. We reached out to the preparatory committee coordinator of the GTP, Dr Haytham Manna, to inquire about the progress of these efforts and to provide us with an update on the court’s formation, process — and anticipated outcomes — twenty days before the meeting scheduled for next month. MEMO: Since the beginning of the century, you have been involved in organising several “courts of […]
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The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639 - 1682
Between 1514 and 1639, the Ottomans and Safavid Empires engaged in a series of wars, clashes, skirmishes and destabilisation attempts. After the Treaty of Zuhab on 17 May 1639, the hostilities between the two powers largely came to an end and, for many historians, the story ends there as there seems little to tell afterwards. It is like the two Empires went their separate ways and had little to do with each other, but this view is mistaken and Selim Gungorurler’s new book, The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639–1682 Diplomacy and Borderlands in the Early Modern Middle East, demonstrates there was life between the two after 1639. The year 1639 ushered in a new era of unbroken peace, diplomatic […]
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Sfeeha (Meat pies)
I was always a little intimidated or hesitant to make dough and I know I am not ...
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