Blogs – Lifestyle

Moatasem Jibril, a young man from Sudan, is realising his dream of conducting technological experiments to manufacture robots by using recycled electronic waste. Despite modest capabilities and living in...

As Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, images of dinner tables, food recipes and group iftars and celebrations begin to flood social media. One British...

Perched on a ledge atop a sheer rock face, Nassar Dalloul looked out over the Ein Qiniya valley and let out a roar. "Don't just sit there, man, a...

In Padras, a town in west Ramallah, one can find prickly pears in all houses, the summer fruit of choice for Palestinians and a symbol of steadfastness and patience. Zainab Awad, 37, lives in Padras, a town known for its cultivation of...

No one lives without memories. Memory is a key not only to the past, but also to the future, to new beginnings.  Even memories of forbidden dreams help one...

After many decades of ongoing Palestinian displacement and dispossession at the hands of the Zionist settler-colonial machine, Palestinians today are fragmented around the world. Of the approximately 12 million...

"Sectarianism" has fast become the buzz word of the 21st century Middle East politics; rolled out and dusted off every time a journalist or political analyst wants to make...

Since 2006, zoos and parks full of different kinds of attraction have become a prominent feature across the Gaza Strip. Visitors may spend hours touring around without feeling bored....

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a report entitled: "Ripe for Abuse: Palestinian Child Labour in Israeli Agricultural Settlements in the West Bank". The 74-page report is based upon...

The West Bank was cut in two today so Israeli settlers could run a marathon. For seven hours, from 6am to 1pm, Israeli forces shut down the Palestinians' main...

"Okay then, so where exactly are you from originally?" From my accent, it's obvious that I'm born and bred in Britain. People can also tell just by looking at...

Since 2002, when the first targeted drone strike against Al Qaeda was ordered in Afghanistan, US armed drones have resulted in thousands of deaths (of both suspected terrorists and...

No matter how pessimistic the prospects may seem to Palestinians, parents in Palestine refuse to give up on educating their children. Education is valued as a step to resisting...

We may know – perhaps even at first hand – of a gap in society whose presence causes pain for countless individuals. Here in Morocco, such a void –...

Christians may hold a minority status in the Middle East, but as the birthplace of Christianity the regions still contains a significant Christian population estimated at around 12 million...

The scenes in Gaza's Shifa Hospital today are not much different from during the recent Israeli offensive – bloodied bandages and linen overflowing onto floors, bathrooms becoming filthier by...

It's that time of year when British citizens get a chance to come together to mourn the country's human losses and remember those who sacrificed their lives in time...

There has been a major decline in the Egyptian economy since the coup in July 2013, the economic reporter Mamdouh Al-Wali has revealed. In a blog on Facebook, Al-Wali...

The world's most extreme poor are located primarily in rural places. Clearly, people's proximity (or lack of) to city centers of decision-making, power and relative affluence is a determining...

Because the Palestinian struggle is very important to me on a personal level and I know the same is true for you, I knew you'd want to see this....

Over 400 asylum seekers, including 100 children, were drowned in international waters on their way to Italy after the boat they were travelling on was rammed on 10 September,...

It wasn't a shock when Ayman Nasser, the coordinator of the legal unit of the prisoner rights group Addameer was arrested by Israeli forces in the early hours of...

As militia groups continue fighting over what is left of fragmented Libya, life in the country's capital Tripoli struggles on, "There is this constant uneasiness here," Khadija, a young...

The condition of mutually enforcing bottom-up social development movements and enabling top-down laws, policies and treaties, assist ever more people and groups in coming-together to achieve the change they...

Last Wednesday Israeli Police filed an indictment against an officer who was filmed beating Tariq Abu Khdeir, a 15 year old Palestinian-American teenager from Florida. He was beaten and...

Israel's Unit 8200, known in Hebrew as Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim, is one of the country's most prestigious military intelligence units. Many who serve in it go on to high-flying jobs...

This 2014 day of democracy brings to the fore a great question – that begs an answer – facing the youth of the world and especially in countries in...

During the brutal attack on the Gaza Strip, one of the Israeli military's propaganda claims was that Hamas fighters were "shooting from within homes". The army even dropped leaflets...

Lying in a hospital bed with a plastic tube in his nose and another connected to his right hand, surrounded by more than five of his close relatives and...

Animals: was my instinctual response to photos of Syrian soldiers being executed by members of the so-called Islamic State (IS). The same gut feelings two days earlier to the...

Killing and bombing are finally over. Yet, I can't feel that the war is! I don't think we will for a long period of time… if we ever could!...

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated the continuation of "Operation Protective Edge", discussions about the rebuilding of Gaza resurface once more within a brief period since the collapse...