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Our River, Our Sky is a film set in Baghdad in 2006, it highlights the realities of ordinary life at a time of intense sectarian violence and nightly curfews following the 2003 US invasion. MEMO talks to British-Iraqi filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi
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Afghan special forces are being drafted into the Ukraine War to fight alongside Russian mercenaries known as the Wagner Group. Despite the US spending hundreds of billions training up these Afghan commandos, they were left stranded after the 2021 fall of Kabul and will now be taking up arms against US interests, recruited to the frontline of Russia's advance across eastern Ukraine.
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Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem have created a virtual reality experience of settler violence in the occupied West Bank. They exhibited the VR experience at a Jewish cultural centre in London
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Google workers Ariel Koren and Gabriel Schubiner spoke to MEMO while still employed by the company, criticising the technology giant’s ‘unethical business practices’ regarding military contracts with Israel and the treatment of Palestinian employees