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Awards season launched at MEMO's Palestinian literary event
Authors of shortlisted books discuss what inspired their work ad the troubles they had in completing them
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The Palestine Book Awards 2018: refuting the Israeli narrative
How can we tackle the Israeli narrative about Palestine’s past and present, when the Palestinian people continue to struggle against Israel’s colonial occupation which bases its existence on a false...
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London launch celebrates Palestinian history through embroidery
Embroidered by Palestinian women, the Palestine History Tapestry is composed of embroidered panels depicting Palestinian history from Neolithic times to the present
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'I wanted to introduce Palestinian culture to the UK'
Palestinian anthropologist Suhad Jarrar-Browne at 'BAYT | The Art of Arab Hospitality'
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63% of a British audience would prefer to cut ties with Saudi Arabia
A night of compelling debate at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Monday evening concluded with 63 per cent of the 1,000-strong audience voting for the motion that “The West should cut ties with...
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Non-aggressive socio-political art at the 2019 Sharjah Biennial
The contemporary art world has flocked for the Sharjah Biennial in the past month
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Iraq Solidarity Month: Use of weapons leading to birth defects across Middle...
'The event is about environment and resistance'
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MEMO conference: ‘The Nation-State Law entrenched discrimination against...
"Since the Nation-State Law has been adopted, many other laws have been voted to discriminate the Arab citizens in Israel"
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London Tech Week: ‘Palestine is open for business’
Palestinian entrepreneurs gather at the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce for Palestine Entrepreneurship Day to promote Palestinian startups and help young entrepreneurs meet and network with the UK...
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PalExpo knocks down Israel's Separation Wall
The two-day festival of music, art, culture blended with sharp lectures and powerful poems opened at Olympia London Exhibition Centre over the weekend!
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Israel's apartheid regime in the spotlight at Palestine Expo
The two-day festival of music, art, culture blended with sharp lectures and powerful poems opened at Olympia London Exhibition Centre over the weekend!
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Sink Without a Trace: ‘Balancing politics and aesthetics’
An exhibition in London shone a light on the loss of life which results from people being forced to risk their lives to survive
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Jeremy Hardy’s pro-Palestine activism remembered in London
With a special screening of Jeremy Hardy versus the Israeli Army, a packed hall at London’s Greenwood Theatre paid a fitting tribute on Tuesday to the late Jeremy Hardy, the British comedian who passed...
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The fifth annual Big Ride takes the Palestine issue onto the streets of London
The Big Ride for Palestine came to Britain’s capital city on Saturday to fly the flag and raise awareness across London of the Israeli occupation. Almost 150 cyclists braved a downpour to gather in...
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Big Ride for Palestine takes the message to Manchester and beyond
'Taking the message into our towns, cities and villages is something that we can do relatively easily, and lets the Palestinians know that they have not been forgotten'
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Baghdad comes to Stratford in RSC-commissioned play
Theatre as an act of re-imagining and storytelling is an approach displayed masterfully in the new Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production A Museum in Baghdad. In conversation with MEMO, playwright...
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MEMO hosts Remembering Jamal one year on
It is exactly one year since Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where he was met by a team of Saudi assassins, hand-picked presumably by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia...
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‘No Means No’: Palestine film festival calls out gender-based violence
From 2-9 October across six cities in historic Palestine, 60 Palestinian and international films are being screened to thousands of audience members.
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Libya. Back Home uses theatre to tackle collective memory
In the spirit of the Festival – born as a multimedia platform – Libya. Back Home brings multimedia art to the stage
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MEMO’s Palestine Book Awards gets underway in London
The 8th awards evening will take place in London tonight, with the shortlisted authors joining members of the public to discuss their works
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Winners of 8th Palestine Book Awards announced
The winners of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced on November 1st in London, in recognition of authors and their contribution to the literature on the subject of Palestine.
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Personal matters of the Found Archive of Hani Jawherieh
Hani Jawherieh was a Palestinian photographer and cinematographer and one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit
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‘The EU knows Hamas isn’t a terrorist group, but is working to delegitimise it’
Speakers at MEMO’s latest conference ‘The Palestine Question in Europe’ discuss Hamas, anti-Semitism and how Israel has become an example of how the West should live
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Past and present perspectives on civil society in South Yemen
The Arab-British Chamber of Commerce was the venue for yesterday’s workshop organised by the Academic Forum Muhammad Ali Luqman and supported by Independent Diplomat focussing on civil society, women’s...
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First Global Conference on Israeli Apartheid
Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory, as well as the efforts that Israel goes to to impose second-class citizen status on Palestinian citizens and inhabitants of the occupied West...
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7th annual Rise Up entrepreneurial summit showcases MENA startup market
The seventh annual Rise Up summit took place on 5-7 December at the American University in Cairo. The largest entrepreneurial gathering across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Rise Up is an...
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The past, present and future of Ethiopia by artist Aïda Muluneh
Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh’s striking photograph titled “The past, the present and the future” depicts three women with blue skin; it is extremely evocative, and reminiscent of the painting “The...
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Palestine’s recent history through political landscape posters
Palestinian ambassador Ali Kazak arrived in Australia in 1970, at the peak of the Palestinian revolutionary political and military activity. He found that the Zionist narrative was prevalent in public...
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Reject Israel’s unlawful treatment of Palestinian prisoners, Peled tells...
A seminar in London yesterday considered the position of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Organised by Palestinian youth group OLIVE and the Association of...
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Let's 'embrace' Israeli annexation and work towards a single democratic state
Supporters of Israel would have breathed a sigh of relief when the Zionist state postponed its 2 July annexation of the West Bank, in what was a humiliating about-turn. The formula for peace envisaged...
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Kashmir & Palestine: The destruction of indigenous cultural heritage
The Centre for Middle East and Africa (CMEA) in collaboration with Middle East Monitor organised a webinar entitled “Kashmir & Palestine: The destruction of Indigenous Cultural Heritage” on 10...
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Winners of 2020 Palestine Book Awards announced
The winners of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced yesterday following another year of strong submissions
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2020 Year In Review
Middle East Monitor takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the Middle East and North Africa in 2020
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The making of Hamas' foreign policy book launch
‘The Making of Hamas's Foreign Policy’: Palestine Chronicle TV Hosts Daud Abdullah & Na’eem Jeenah
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Israel’s occupation is Gaza’s main medical problem, insist professionals
The webinar followed Israel’s 11-day bombardment of Gaza last month, which killed at least 254 Palestinians
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Will the new Ad-Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale tackle the fundamental...
As Saudi Arabia announces its first art Biennale as a part of its cultural growth plan, we need to keep in mind that the post-pandemic art world needs to operate in new, sustainable modalities
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Establishing a Palestinian presence at the 2022 Venice Biennale
At the very centre of Palazzo Mora, an old Venetian building, I stepped across the front yard and then through rooms where workers were still setting up artworks from parallel shows, in preparation for...
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The Middle Eastern presence at Paris Art Week was extensive
With its two leading art fairs, Paris + Art Basel and ASIA NOW, as well as exhibitions scattered around the city, Paris Art Week 2022 had an extensive presence of Middle Eastern artists and galleries,...
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Palestine Book Awards shortlisted authors presented in London event
MEMO hosted an informal event at London’s P21 Gallery last night ahead of this year’s Palestine Book Awards (PBA) in recognition of authors and their contribution to literature on the subject of...
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Winners of Palestine Book Awards 2022 announced
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the...
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MEMO launches ‘The JNF/KKL: A Charity Complicit With Ethnic Cleansing’ by Dr...
Davis highlights how the JNF has used setting up parks and planting trees to erase Palestinian villages and forms part of Israel's apartheid regime
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International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine
Experts and activists from across the world addressed digital censorship the origins of Zionism and how Israel enforces apartheid
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‘In the art world the name Palestine is radioactive right now,’ says director...
A few months ago, the director of the Palestine Museum US, Faisal Saleh, was in a room in Venice with members of the commission for the 2024 Venice Art Biennale. They tried to explain to him why his...
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Palestine Book Awards 2023 winners announced during night of solidarity with...
The event, held virtually in order to allow the participation of authors in the Occupied West Bank who are unable to travel as a result of the Israeli Occupation authorities’ restrictions, was joined...
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Saudi Arabia is retelling the Hijrah and shaping a new narrative through art
The exhibition “Hijrah: In the Footsteps of the Prophet” and the documentary “In the Footsteps of the Beloved” are embracing historical and scientific evidence, signalling a change in Saudi Arabia....
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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
MEMO hosted a book launch event in London on Friday for the recently published and reviewed Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Professor Avi Shlaim, a British-Israeli historian of Iraqi heritage....
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The wrong kind of Israeli: Avi Shlaim on life as an Iraqi Jew
MEMO hosted a book launch event yesterday at the University of London’s Senate House for the recently published and reviewed Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by distinguished author Professor Avi...
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Resistance and postcolonialism at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha
With shows that range from political stances to introspective research, Doha’s Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art proves itself to be one of the most authoritative voices for Arab narratives and the...
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MEMO launches ‘Our Vision for Liberation’ Ramzy Baroud’s latest book in London
In Middle East Monitor’s first in-person event two years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of speakers came together to discuss the future of Palestine from a grassroots perspective.
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Londoners gather in solemn solidarity for ‘Night for Gaza’
In a poignant show of solidarity, Londoners came together last night for ‘A Night for Gaza’, a sombre event mourning lives lost and voicing support for Palestinians facing devastating Israeli...
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