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    • Gaza: On the ground

      • CENTCOM chief proposes 2-week air campaign against Iran following killing of service members: Report

        Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 22 July

        MEMO spoke to Motasem A Dalloul, a survivor of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in the first of a new series of regular updates from the ground. Dalloul describes the daily struggle to survive: hunger, cold, the collapse of healthcare, and ongoing Israeli violations despite the so-called ceasefire. WATCH:  Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 08 July

    • MEMO in conversation

      • CENTCOM chief proposes 2-week air campaign against Iran following killing of service members: Report

        MEMO in Conversation with Raouf Farrah

        In this conversation with Raouf Farrah, lead Africa analyst at SecDev and co-editor of Rising for Palestine, we discuss his new book and its call for renewed Africa-Palestine solidarity. We also discuss the Sumud convoy, a North African solidarity initiative organised to challenge Israel’s siege on Gaza. Farrah reflects on the political obstacles the convoy faced and what they reveal about the regional response to Palestine. Raouf Farrah is the Lead Africa Analyst at the SecDev Group, a risk analytics firm working at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. In 2025, he was instrumental in organising  The Sumud Convoy, an attempt to break Israel’s siege on Gaza This year, Farrah co-edited a book, Rising for Palestine. MORE >>> MEMO in […]

    • Reviews

      • CENTCOM chief proposes 2-week air campaign against Iran following killing of service members: Report

        The Race for Universal Monarchy

        The sixteenth century saw the rise of two Mediterranean empires driven by apocalyptic fever who sought to bring Christianity and Islam together under the rule of one emperor. Ebru Turan’s new book The Race for Universal Monarchy: Apocalypticism and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean looks at the Ottoman Habsburg rivalry through the lens of competing ideologies shaped by overlapping historical events. The Crusades shifted political ideologies in both Europe and the Middle East creating a need to justify acquiring power in line with religious end times beliefs. Both Charles V, King of Spain and Archduke of Austria, and Suleyman I, the Ottoman Sultan, not only viewed their clash as part of the usual political rivalry, both saw their […]

    • Palestine This Week

      • CENTCOM chief proposes 2-week air campaign against Iran following killing of service members: Report

        Israel’s War on International Law | Palestine This Week

        In this week’s episode, we begin with the growing normalisation of rhetoric aimed at erasing Palestinian identity and ask how Israel’s war on Gaza could reshape the global politics of genocide. We also explore the deepening crisis within Zionism, the surge in settler violence across the occupied West Bank and the future of the International Criminal Court following the removal of its chief prosecutor. The discussion also considers Zohran Mamdani’s call for Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest, Washington’s escalating hostility towards international institutions that challenge Israel and the strategic calculations surrounding a Saudi-US nuclear deal tied to normalisation with Israel.   WATCH: The Anti-Klan Law Comes for Trump’s Israel Lobby | Palestine This Week

Islam Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads

Israel’s War on International Law | Palestine This Week

Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign Policy

MEMO in Conversation with Motasem A Dalloul