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Employees at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv announced yesterday that they have gone on strike in protest against working conditions and the airport's failure to fulfill contractual...

Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event

'To date, we have not received any of the compensation we are entitled to from this international organisation which was set up for us Palestinian refugees'

Middle East Monitor's (MEMO) Palestine Book Awards are back for the 11th year and we invite you to submit your best entries. Winning books will be chosen from a...

Middle East Monitor's photojournalist Mohammed Asad was honoured yesterday for the work he has done to highlight the plight of Palestinians on the global stage. This came during an...

Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 10th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event.

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Staff members of the Middle East Monitor in Brazil, Ahmad Zoubi and Hani Aldrsani, were received on 22 June by the former senator and governor of Rio Grande do...

Live stream from Daud Abdullah's interview with Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Scotland

Middle East Monitor (MEMO) and the Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC) in Johannesburg have strongly condemned the decision by Facebook to ban a staff member from using its platform for...

An article about a South African man who claimed to have walked from Cape Town to Jerusalem has been taken down by MEMO after it was revealed that he...

"This adventure nearly cost us lives. One of our colleagues had a heart attack in Cairo"

This month, MEMO turns 10 years old. Here we look at our biggest stories of the decade.

Member of Hamas' political bureau Izzat Al-Rishq welcomed Jordan's decision to host an international conference on the dangers facing Al-Aqsa Mosque under the patronage of King Abdullah II. "Jordan's...

The live blog from our conference will begin at 10am GMT on Saturday, 29th September 2018

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Middle East Monitor is to host an event on Jerusalem this weekend, in the wake of US President Donald Trump's recognition of the city as the capital of Israel....

Three months on from the unilateral decision by US President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel influential speakers from the fields of journalism, politics, academia...

The one-day Conference will bring together influential speakers from the fields of journalism, politics, academia and the diplomatic world

Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Awards are back for a sixth year. From 7.00pm (GMT) today, we will be live blogging the Awards Ceremony. The Palestine Book Awards started...

Live from #PBA17 - 6.30pm on Thursday, 23rd November

Guests included Lord Paddy Ashdown, Jack Straw and Clare Short

Live from #SaudiCrisis Conference - 9.30am on Saturday, 18th November 2017

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is pleased to announce the books shortlisted for its 2017 Palestine Book Awards. This prestigious event, now in its sixth year, is an annual...

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Exclusive detailed analyses of two video films of the same alleged incident in Alexandria were published by MEMO on 8 and 9 July. The first analysis of the incident...

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has held a function to honour and celebrate the life achievements of the distinguished Iraqi-born scholar Dr Jafar Hadi Hassan. Well known for his...

In a House of Lords debate on the plight of Palestinian citizens of Israel ("Arab Israelis") called by the Lord Bishop of Exeter, peers from across the political spectrum...

Sheikh Raed Salah, Palestinian political leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel was detained by the UK Border Authority Police late Tuesday night. He was invited by the Middle...

It is clear that a co-ordinated campaign has been launched to try to get Amnesty International to withdraw the use of its premises for an event to be hosted...

The PSC and MEMO meeting on media bias, taking place on 23 May as an external event in Amnesty's building in London, has come under fire by pro-Israeli Government...

After several months of strenuous litigation the London based Islam Expo has won a landmark case against the right wing Spectator. The Middle East Monitor has obtained a copy...