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UK Government condemns Israel’s launch of tender for the E1 settlement project
In a rare display of opposition, the UK Government on Wednesday issued a strongly...
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Hamas accuses Peace Council of failing to prevent Israeli massacres in Gaza
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem on Wednesday accused the Peace Council of failing to pressure...
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The bombs over Abu Duhur: A warning shot at Ankara
The runway at Abu Duhur had been quiet for many years. Old MiG jets...
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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
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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 […]
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The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s–1910s
The history of a city is political. When examining the heritage of a place, it is often the case that present-day politics projects itself onto the past. Perhaps no other example of this is truer than the Ottoman past in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1913, the local council of the Bulgarian city of Sofia voted to demolish the last remaining Ottoman bathhouse, as Stefan Peychev writes, the destruction of the bathhouse represented more than the removal of a hygiene facility. ‘The bath was also one of the last architectural relics of a 500-year-long period that had seen Sofia’s rise as the capital of the Ottoman Empire’s European possessions in the mid-fifteenth century and its eventual decline to provincial obscurity […]
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‘The Board of Peace’ Or ‘Broker of Deceit’ | Palestine This Week
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we begin with Jared Kushner’s meetings with Hamas political leader Khalil Al-Hayya and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking what the talks mean for the future of the Gaza ceasefire. We revisit the long-debunked claim that Palestine was sparsely populated before early Jewish settlement and ask why this version of history continues to resurface. We also look at changes to Saudi school textbooks, including the removal of the phrase “Muslims will never give up Jerusalem”. The episode also looks at settler violence in the occupied West Bank and US Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s decision to describe Israeli settlers as “terrorists” after American citizens were besieged by Israeli settlers. Finally, we discuss a false quotation […]
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