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October 30, 2022
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Nasim Ahmed
One of the most startling aspects of Israel's ongoing takeover of historic Palestine is how, despite the catalogue of human rights abuse, violations of international law and the practice...
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October 27, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The devastating war in Yemen has been raging for eight years, and with the recent expiry of a UN-brokered truce, conflict between the warring parties remains unlikely to end...
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October 23, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
This complex subject is presented with meticulous research by Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi in Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practising Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022). The book goes beyond the...
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October 18, 2022
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Usman Butt
This new book edited by Jeffrey G. Karam and Rima Majed seeks to make sense of the October 2019 uprising that shook Lebanon. The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices...
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October 16, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Sharing a very personal account of his own incarceration at the hands of the Israeli occupation authorities, MEMO's Palestinian political cartoonist, Mohammad Sabaaneh, offers us a glimpse into this...
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October 11, 2022
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Usman Butt
Regions such Dagestan, Chechnya and the Caucasus tend to make us think of territories that are firmly under Moscow's control as part of the Russian Federation. However, Russian control...
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October 9, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Human rights, in itself, have long been a contentious industry, developing over the decades and adapting to particular regions and surroundings. It is no different in Palestine, and perhaps...
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October 2, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear defies order and structure. It is a staggeringly diverse collection and as deep, heavy and haunting as the very days Israel...
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September 25, 2022
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Amelia Smith
It's Christmas Eve in London and Heba Hayek's narrator is looking to bake something that reminds her of home. She settles for basbousa, a coconut yoghurt semolina cake, which...
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September 18, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
A prominent part of Israel's colonial violence is the deprivation of free movement for Palestinians. Maryam S. Griffin's book, Vehicles of Decolonisation: Public Transport in the Palestinian West Bank...
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September 11, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
Of the 12 official Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Ain El-Hilweh ('Ayn Al-Hilwe) is the largest in both area and population and is known among its 33,000 or so...
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September 6, 2022
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Usman Butt
"It turned out that Syria is our sacred land," wrote a Russian blogger sarcastically in 2016 following attempts by some public figures to recast Syria as part of Russia...
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September 4, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
The deployment of the physical body into a site of struggle and resistance remains one of the most poignant and controversial methods of protest. Due to its tremendous toll,...
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August 2, 2022
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Omar Ahmed
The concept of martyrdom is one that is shared by all three Abrahamic faiths and one which, by the time of the advent of Islam, was understood firmly by...
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July 8, 2022
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Usman Butt
Arjomand takes us into the critical and largely invisible work of the media fixer. Defining what fixers do is difficult as their role can be quite fluid but, essentially,...
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June 26, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
"Sovereignty is made out of a patchwork, weaved together from institutions, private companies, and most significantly technology itself, which dictates certain behaviour and habits." Israel's security narrative has become...
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June 12, 2022
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Usman Butt
A popular Russian-speaking Jewish satirist from Kharkiv, Leonid Osmolovskyi, had become a shadow of his former self by the 1980s. Once famed for his witty essays and part of...
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In Middle East Monitor’s first in-person event two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of speakers came together to discuss the future of Palestine from a grassroots perspective.
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June 6, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
"Debt is about borrowing in the present and repaying in the future. In both cases it is the future that is at stake when debt is thought about as...
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May 21, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
Alex Poppe's collection of short stories is a turbulent itinerary of the marginalised. At face value, the observations laid out in Jinwar and Other Stories tend to border on...
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May 19, 2022
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Usman Butt
In his new book Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture In Modern Egypt, Andrew Simon recounts how, on 12 June, 1974, US President Richard Nixon landed in Cairo for...
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May 18, 2022
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Amelia Smith
In 2015, Hasna Ait Boulahcen was labelled Europe's first female suicide bomber by the media, after she died in a blast in the Parisian suburbs three days after the...
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May 11, 2022
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Amelia Smith
Since it was first published in 1959, Naguib Mahfouz's 'Children of the Alley' has drawn objections from scholars at Al-Azhar and instigated an attack on his life. Then in 1988...
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April 28, 2022
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Naima Morelli
At the very centre of Palazzo Mora, an old Venetian building, I stepped across the front yard and then through rooms where workers were still setting up artworks from...
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March 28, 2022
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Usman Butt
"From a deep history perspective, Ottoman rule in Iraq — the land of ancient Babylonia — was a political oddity," writes Faisal Husain in Rivers of the Sultan: The...
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March 23, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
Maurice Ebileeni's study of Palestinian literary narratives and the imaginings of the Palestinian homeland highlights the need to rethink both. Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World...
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March 17, 2022
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Usman Butt
How does history look at non-urban, rural populations who lived through the last century of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the Turkish republic? Chris Gratien's The Unsettled...
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March 14, 2022
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Usman Butt
In January 2022, Kazakhstan made international headlines when it was hit by waves of popular protests which were suppressed by the authorities in the Central Asian state. What began...
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March 4, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
"Palestine revealed itself to me in layers," reflects Becky Klein, the Jewish American protagonist and narrator in Alison Glick's novel, The Other End of the Sea (Interlink Books, 2021),...
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February 21, 2022
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Usman Butt
Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity by Elise Burton, is a sweeping history of 'genetic nationalism' in the 20th century covering Iran, Turkey, Israel,...
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February 17, 2022
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Usman Butt
Jocelyn Hendrickson takes us on a historical and legal tour exploring Islamic responses to Christian conquests in Spain and North West Africa in her book Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law...
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January 14, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
Pluto Press has published the fourth, and rewritten edition of Paul Roger's "Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century". The first edition was published a little while after...