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June 16, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Historically, Chile has always been a destination for global migration, currently hosting around one million Arab refugees, many of whom cannot return to their countries of origin. Refugees often...
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Migration has existed since ancient times, often a difficult choice for people to make, individually and collectively, for a variety of reasons. Historically, people migrated to find areas to...
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June 6, 2022
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Adel Hamdi
The President of Tunisia's Ennahda Party, Rached Ghannouchi, expressed his conviction that the coup against the democratic path and the Constitution is merely a passing event that will end...
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June 5, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Director of the Bisan Centre for Research and Development Ubai Al-Aboudi talks to MEMO about the group’s designation as a terror group by Israel and its work to highlight injustices at the hands of the occupation and within Palestinian society
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May 3, 2022
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Ahmad Alzoubi
Interview with Mehmet Çelik, representative of the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation of projects in Latin America
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May 1, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
When Bayan Abu Salameh enrolled in a mechanical engineering degree, she was one of only four women in an intake of more than 70 students at Birzeit University, north...
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April 24, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Palestine has recently been experiencing turbulent events in various parts of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. These events are taking place on several fronts at once:...
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In 2016, when she was just 12 years old, Abeer Kaffi attained third place for her age in the Amman Marathon, an annual event held in the Jordanian capital...
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Murtaza Hussain is a reporter at the Intercept who focuses on national security and foreign policy. He has appeared on CNN, BBC, MSNBC and other news outlets.
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April 17, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Last Friday, Muslims worshipers went to Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform their morning – Fajr prayer – as they normally. Unfortunately for them, the Israeli occupation has become used to...
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April 17, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Nisreen Salem is an Afro-Palestinian from Egypt who has been mocked due to her skin colour and hair for most of her young life. The 25 year old is...
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April 14, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Being a Palestinian refugee is not a matter of choice, but working for Palestine is. Millions of Palestinians have found themselves uprooted following the Nakba in 1948 and the...
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April 4, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Raghid Sandouk escaped from his home in Damascus and brought his wife and three children to safety in Britain. "We never thought of living in the UK," he told...
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March 27, 2022
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Anadolu Agency
Sitting beside her father's library, which contains hundreds of books on politics, history and Arab literature, 17-year-old Qabas Banat prepares daily for her higher secondary school exams in June....
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March 24, 2022
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Amelia Smith
Elsa Lefort met her husband, Salah Hamouri, on 18 December 2011, the day he came out of prison under the Gilad Shalit detainee exchange. As part of his supporting...
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March 20, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
It was during the late afternoon hours of 29 September 2021 when Basel Al-Adra was being chased by a group of masked Israeli settlers with bats and rocks. They...
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March 17, 2022
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Naima Morelli
Where does a refugee find her homeland? Perhaps in unexpected places; a memory of the country might emerge through the most mundane gestures, or even from a simple interaction...
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March 8, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Ukrainian parliamentarian Kira Ruddik has expressed her surprise on Twitter that she has learnt how to use a Kalashnikov assault rifle and prepared herself to bear arms. "It sounds...
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March 7, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
The spicy aroma and pots bubbling away are part of the daily routine that helps to see Nour Al-Batta and her husband Ahmed Taha through the crisis days in...
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February 25, 2022
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Reuters
As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major, Waheeda Bayat, will not be among them. The 24-year-old was looking forward to resuming her course at the private Gawharshad...
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February 17, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Cultural appropriation is just one way in which the Israeli occupation seeks to eradicate Palestinian heritage. This is very obvious when it comes to food, with hummus being claimed...
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February 14, 2022
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Naima Morelli
We inhabit a burning world, where everything is constantly dying while also being alive, brightly so. From our emotions to our thoughts and feelings, from our bodies to the...
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February 13, 2022
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Roisin McCarthy
Azra* has been a journalist in Turkey for 25 years. She has witnessed her country's press freedoms fall away under the acceleration of censorship, and it has left her...
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February 11, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
"Take your boots off my son now!" roars Taslima. A pin-drop silence instantly falls over the auditorium. "Don't point your guns in their faces. They've done nothing wrong!" she...
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February 8, 2022
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Roisin McCarthy
Love Welcomes, a social enterprise helping to support and employ refugee women has become a vital lifeline in more ways than one. Founded in 2017 in response to the...
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February 6, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
Modern technology makes it possible for us all to communicate around the world at the touch of a button. Today, even refugees can speak to medical specialists for a...
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An interview with Tunisian Judge Bashir Al-Akrami who has faced charges of covering terrorism related files, in moves he says have been politicised.
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In December 2020 Ghada Najibe woke up to a phone call – "the Egyptian government has announced they are stripping you of your nationality", Ghada's friend told her down the...
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February 1, 2022
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Anjuman Rahman
Canaan Ghoul stood tall and proud on the roof of the Salehiyah family home as it awaited demolition by the Israelis recently. He played traditional Palestinian folk songs on...
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January 31, 2022
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Reuters
Short of masks and short of protective gowns, Yemen's over-stretched medical workers started dying from COVID-19. Nadia Dhrah – herself a doctor – was dismayed, so she resolved to...
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January 26, 2022
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Naima Morelli
When we think of political art from Palestine or elsewhere, very rarely do abstract paintings come to mind. We would rather think of militant canvases in a realistic style,...
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January 21, 2022
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Eman Abusidu
The reality of sports in Palestine faces many challenges that hamper the Palestinian football dream. For example, Palestinian players need permits to cross Israeli checkpoints in order to get...