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December 15, 2015
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Amelia Smith
One windy day out at the seaside Poppy spends most of the time asking her parents when it's time to leave; a normal day for a teenage girl until...
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December 8, 2015
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Amelia Smith
In a work by the Irish painter George William Joy, set during the Anglo-Egyptian administration in Sudan at the time of the British Empire, General Charles Gordon looks down...
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November 26, 2015
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Emmanuela Eposti
In the media frenzy surrounding the escalating refugee crisis in Europe, and particularly in the wake of the Paris attacks on 13 November in which there have been hints...
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In the historical iconography of New York, few places capture the imagination more than Ellis Island, the gateway to America and the first port of call for millions of...
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November 20, 2015
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Amelia Smith
During the ideological battle between the Church of England and Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, photographers believed that history, as it was recounted in Genesis, could be proved...
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November 6, 2015
Raya Al-Jadir
Living with a disability can mean coming face to face with numerous challenges during your everyday life, in addition to society’s attitudes which can stifle and limit you, but...
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November 3, 2015
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Amelia Smith
As Iberia flight 3316 approached Ben Gurion airport last week the pilot provoked fury on board when he announced the aircraft's imminent arrival in Palestine. One passenger summed up...
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Lebanon has often been heralded as an impossible state, a delicate balancing act of sectarian and partisan concerns that threatens to crumble at the slightest whiff of political or...
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October 16, 2015
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Amelia Smith
In the months following the July 2013 coup in Egypt Mohamed Soltan, who was working with the media team at the Rabaa pro-democracy demonstrations, visited a prosecutor's office for...
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October 16, 2015
Nabila Ramdani
Mohammed Assaf, the Palestinian singer who escaped from Gaza to become a superstar, has called for ‘an end to the violence’ in his blighted homeland and for ‘the international...
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October 12, 2015
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Amelia Smith
Last Thursday, protestors in Lebanon made their way to Martyrs’ Square in downtown Beirut where they have been gathering since the summer. During the 1975–1990 Lebanese Civil War, the...
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October 6, 2015
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Christine Petré
Rising above Hamra Street, in the downtown commercial centre of Beirut, is the city’s biggest mural portraying national hero Sabah covering a five floor property. The Lebanese singer was...
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October 2, 2015
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Emmanuela Eposti
"Hip hop is a school," says Yassin Alsalman, better known by his MC title of "the Narcicyst", or simple "Narcy", "it's a school that taught me a lot about...
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September 29, 2015
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Diana Alghoul
The Saudi-led operation against Houthi rebels has put Yemen in the spotlight for almost six months, for all the wrong reasons. Instability, unfortunately, is nothing new to Arabia Felix,...
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September 20, 2015
Naima Morelli
"I never decide in advance why I want to talk about a subject; it just arises from the context. The wall in particular is a symbol that speaks to...
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September 16, 2015
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Amelia Smith
When a Canadian editor specialising in the testimonies of genocide survivors starts to receive anonymous accounts of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, her investigation takes her to a small...
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September 12, 2015
Hadeel Arja
Mohannad is 19 years old and from Deir Ezzor in Syria, where he was wounded by a bullet in his left leg. He has told Huffington Post Arabi that...
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The image of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi's lying lifeless on a Turkish beach has awoken the international media and communities to the plight of millions of refugees who are...
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September 2, 2015
Arabi21
Nabil Shaath is a senior member of the central committee of Fatah, the Palestinian National Liberation Movement. He has revealed that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked the movement's...
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Exclusive interview with Dr Guillaume Long, Ecuadorian Minister of Culture and Heritage In June 1959, dressed in full military regalia and surrounded by an entourage of Fidel Castro's men,...
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August 26, 2015
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Samira Shackle
Hugo Chavez, the then President of Venezuela, condemned Israel's actions during its invasion of Lebanon in 2006. He was the first world leader to do so, and it precipitated...
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August 25, 2015
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Raya Al-Jadir
Celebrating the resilience, patience and perseverance of every woman that has fought and struggled to succeed and survive in or out of Palestine, Untha is an upcoming fashion collection...
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August 15, 2015
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Amelia Smith
Syrian writer Samar Yazbek describes Daesh as "the biggest Satan ever", and "an occupation" created by the brutality of Assad's regime and the international community's failure to take action....
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August 7, 2015
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Amelia Smith
Inside a filthy police van near Al-Azhar University an officer points to a fragment of light shining through a tiny opening: "See this bit of sun?" he asks Amena...
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August 4, 2015
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Christine Petré
Shadi Hamid, author of "Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East" talks to Middle East Monitor's Christine Petré about the state of the Muslim...
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July 31, 2015
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Emmanuela Eposti
"The Saudis bring stability back to the region, and stop Iranian intervention. That is the larger picture; that is the larger aim." Never one...
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July 18, 2015
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Amelia Smith
During Britain's long conflict in Northern Ireland the British media branded IRA members "mafia" and "godfathers", recalls Gerry Adams. He says it was part of a negative propaganda campaign...
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July 14, 2015
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Amelia Smith
Calligraffiti artist eL Seed combines calligraphy, graffiti and philosophy in his latest mural to open the Shubbak festival in Shoreditch, East London. In downtown Shoreditch, French-Tunisian street artist eL...
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July 12, 2015
Naima Morelli
"I don't actually read that many comic books," laughs Takoua Ben Mohamed. "And I have never set foot in a comic book fair." Don't mistake what she says for...
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Exile and war have long been dominant themes in the work of Iraqi artist Yousif Naser; pain and death rendered in large, black strokes, a chaotic jumble of eerie...
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July 2, 2015
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Amelia Smith
Richard Jackson speaks to MEMO: "Once you listen to what their grievances are and try and address them terrorism subsides." One week ago, Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgai opened fire...
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June 27, 2015
Mahmoud Haniyeh
The chief negotiator of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee has said that Hamas and the other factions are not required to recognise the principles of the Middle...