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January 1, 2023
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Anjuman Rahman
"The most difficult part of my work is when I face women who are forced to lie about their cause of burn injuries because they're being threatened with their...
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December 25, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Thirty-six-year-old Gabriel Boric, the youngest Chilean president ever to have been elected, has announced yesterday that his country will raise the level of its representation in the Palestinian territories...
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December 9, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
A hijab-wearing Palestinian American woman was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives for the first time. Ruwa Romman has made history earlier this month as the first Muslim...
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December 5, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Interview with the Brazilian Ambassador and Head of the Representative Office of Brazil to the State of Palestine, Francisco Mauro Holland
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November 27, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
The Swimmers is a new film based on the story of two Syrian sisters that literally swam to Europe as war refugees
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November 23, 2022
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Naima Morelli
The new Dubai show of Ramallah-based artist Bashar Alhroub looks at his native city Jerusalem as a place with multiple identities. "When you are in Jerusalem," Alhroub told me,...
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November 22, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Scores of people waved Palestinian flags as they gathered in the city of Santa Clara del Mar, in Argentina's Buenos Aires State. They had come together to celebrate the...
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November 13, 2022
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Usman Butt
Dan Hodd travelled from Europe to COP27 in Egypt without stepping foot on a plane to highlight the case for environmental travel, MEMO caught up with him along the way
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Muslims are well established in Europe; those in Eastern Europe in particular have been living in the continent for many centuries. A visible Muslim community has existed in Britain...
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November 8, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
For close to 300 days a year, Abdelrahman Hassanein's workmates are lions, cheetahs, buffalo and elephants. Not for him a desk, computer and colleagues engaged in mundane work. Instead,...
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October 24, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Last month, a 51-year-old Palestinian farmer was tending to his family land on the outskirts of the village of At-Tuwani, where they grow olives, figs, tomatoes and zucchini. A...
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October 17, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
A deputy from the Workers' Party in Brazil's Congress, Paulo Pimenta, has called on the Palestinian community in the country to support former president Lula da Silva in the...
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October 12, 2022
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Arabi21
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan which Tunisia is working to obtain will help the country's general budget but not solve its economic crisis, former Minister of Trade and...
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October 9, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Syrian-American Ahmad Alzahabi has turned the skills he learnt helping his mum make family dinners into recipes that followers can use to discover their own palette
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September 29, 2022
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Ahmad Alzoubi
Interview with a bookseller, whose love for and knowledge of books earned him an international reputation and customers.
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September 25, 2022
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Naima Morelli
Emirati curator Alia Zaal says her work has been inspired by her father's weak eyesight as 'he was forced to approach art a bit differently, paying a lot of attention to detail'
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September 21, 2022
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On the run from authorities after forcing a bank to release her family savings at gunpoint to treat her cancer-stricken sister, 28-year-old Lebanese interior designer, Sali Hafiz, insists she...
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September 20, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
The murder of 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie on 16 March 2003 started a global conversation about how Israel gets away with its terrorism against civilians and human rights defenders...
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September 16, 2022
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Tasnim Nazeer
Canadian-Syrian Zoulfa Katouh has become Bloomsbury publishing’s first Young Arab author of Syrian descent, she hopes her book will allow people to get a better understanding of the events in her homeland
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September 8, 2022
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Alexander Morris
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
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August 25, 2022
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Amelia Smith
It is the seventh century CE and the Ummayad forces are advancing across North Africa. Their rapid expansion is fuelled by treasures and riches, their dynasty defined by opulence...
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August 21, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Lebanese Nelly Attar was driven by the memory of her father to reach the top to the world’s second highest and most deadly peak, K2
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August 19, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Reading can take you into different worlds, and the adventures they contain can take on another dimension when books are read in different languages. New experiences beckon when reading...
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"For women, swimming in a burkini isn't easy," Hilal Uysal Namal tells us. "Women don't feel comfortable because they look different. Also, it's important to swim without one for...
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August 11, 2022
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Ahmad Alzoubi
Nayef Turaani has never visited the Palestinian town he is from because his family were forced out of it as a resut of the Nakba but he is collating information about its past to keep its memory alive
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August 7, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Every now and then, the world is fed a dizzying kaleidoscope of tormenting Uyghur accounts. There are millions. In May, the BBC published a damning report proving up to...
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July 17, 2022
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Seleshi Tessema
Sixty years after Nelson Mandela was trained in guerilla warfare in Ethiopia, a former military officer who acted as his security guard said there had been an attempt to...
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July 14, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
MEMO Interview: NASA's Palestinian Engineer Unveils New Projects
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July 10, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Every year, Defense for Children International - Palestine collects hundreds of statements from Palestinian children who were arrested and subjected to long periods of interrogation without the presence of a parent, guardian or lawyer, and Israel is never held to account for these abuses, its director tells MEMO.
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July 4, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
From the moment she arrived in Sweden Tamam Abou Hamidan faced many challenges, she started working in a pizza restaurant and has now become mayor of a city
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June 28, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
With the occupation of their homeland an ongoing reality, the Palestinians in Brazil know that they have a duty to preserve and share their culture. And whether protesting against...
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June 26, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
When asked what has been the most exciting international appearance, Palestinian-Japanese soprano, Mariam Tamari, quipped that there was nothing like performing with her fellow Palestinian musicians. "We work with...