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June 1, 2014
Middle East Monitor
It's 2012 and Leila Khaled can still manage to stir-up controversy. In May, the staff members at Manchester's branch of the Blackwell's bookshop were inundated with phone calls; the...
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Antony Lerman has spent his whole working life at the heart of the Jewish community. While he is now well known for his radical views on Israel, it was...
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June 1, 2014
Middle East Monitor
I never met Kathleen's late husband Bill, though after reading 'It's All Right, I'm Only Crying', I feel as though I know him. I know that he liked to...
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It has been often said that the conflict in Palestine cannot be resolved without a fundamental change of policy in Washington. There is some truth in this. No other...
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June 1, 2014
Middle East Monitor
It's the abundance of Raja Shehadeh's daily accounts, filled with frustration and despair, which makes you realise just how far the Israeli occupation reaches into every corner of Palestinians'...
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Few issues on the world stage are more divisive than the Israel-Palestine conflict, which triggers a powerful emotional response even among people with little direct stake in it. But...
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Recent statements made by the British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, indicate a decline in British public and political support for Israel. It also indicates how much European public...
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Let me start with a confession: I am a signed-up member of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel, as well as the Friends of Palestine. Why? Because I am...
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To many observers, Iran's foreign policy is at best unclear and, at worst, unpredictable. This study by Mahboubeh Sadeghinia offers an in-depth explanation of the complex factors that have...
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Jordan, described as a new "emerging market" with "high human development", is a forward thinking, predominantly Muslim state. It has signed an array of treaties and is the beneficiary...
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This is Dr Mabrouka al-Werfalli's timely offering for readers to gain a better understanding of Libya's complex political, social and economic milieu in the wake of the 2011 revolution....
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Clayton Swisher's fascinating publication of the Palestinian Papers (leaked to and broadcast by Al Jazeera and The Guardian) is subtitled pessimistically "The End of the Road". His basic thesis...
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June 1, 2014
Amelia Smith
Omar Barghouti is a founding member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel and so he is in a perfect position to write a book charting...
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June 1, 2014
Middle East Monitor
Western journalists often shy away from writing on Palestine. They believe that so much has already been written about the century-old conflict that it is hard to find a...
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Author: Zeina B. Ghandour Hardback: 197 pagesPublisher: Routeledge (2010)ISBN 10: 0-415-48993-8Review by Samira QuraishyA Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency sends the reader on a...
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The Palestinian cause has been, and will remain the most important issue in the Arab world until it is resolved in accordance with international and humanitarian laws. Many people...
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Historians living within their own nations develop within the mythology peculiar to their nation, in which "various spheres of memory coalesced into an imagined universe representing the past." The...
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The essential point of M. Shahid Alam's book, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism, comes clear upon opening the book to the inscription in the frontispiece. From the...
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Palestine in pieces: Graphic perspectives on the Israeli Occupation is the most recent contribution by Kathleen and Bill Christison in their long standing effort to bring into the public...
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'American Foreign Policy & the Muslim World' is a compilation of academic essays and articles aimed at 'dispel naïve ideas and misconceptions…about US foreign policy'. The editors were...
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Bad News from Israel is an authoritative, eye-opening and highly readable empirical study by the world renowned Glasgow University Media Group. It tackles and supports long standing lamentations about...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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May 28, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Chaired by former foreign associate editor of the Guardian, Victoria Brittain, the speakers Mahmoud Zaware and Sami Abou Shehadeh talked about their lives in Israel and the...
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May 28, 2014
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Samira Quraishy
EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Thursday 18th October, the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) and the Cordoba Foundation co-hosted the book launch of The Battle for Public Opinion in Europe: Changing perceptions...
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May 28, 2014
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Samira Quraishy
The Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) fringe event at the Party Conference was arguably the best attended for years. It was, perhaps, suggestive of a...