MEMO in Conversation with Hassan Al Kontar
Join us for a conversation with Hassan Al Kontar, a Syrian refugee who became a Canadian citizen after making headlines around the world in 2018 when he was stranded in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Interna...
10 Feb 202324min
MEMO in conversation with Ross Caputi
MEMO speaks to Ross Caputi about the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the siege of Fallujah and building an oral history archive made up of Iraqi voices and stories. Caputi served in the US marine corp...
3 Feb 202340min
MEMO in Conversation with Seema Golestaneh
Sufi movements in Iran: MEMO speaks to Seema Golestaneh who is an assistant professor at Cornell University in the department of Near East Studies. We discuss Dr Golestaneh's new book 'Unknowing and t...
27 Jan 202342min
MEMO in Conversation with Hugh Lovatt
In December 2022, the United Nations' general assembly passed a resolution asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the legality of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land....
20 Jan 202333min
MEMO in conversation with Nida Ibrahim
MEMO talks to Al Jazeera's correspondent in the West Bank Nida Ibrahim about her journey into journalism, covering Palestine and the killing of her colleague Shireen Abu Akleh.
13 Jan 202336min
MEMO conversation with Noam Shuster Eliassi
MEMO caught up with Israeli comedian and activist Noam Shuster Eliassi to discuss the new Israeli government, doing comedy in Arabic, English and Hebrew and going viral on Arabic-language social media...
6 Jan 202336min
MEMO in conversation with Dr Suja Sawafta
MEMO met up with Dr Suja Sawafta to discuss granting Palestinians permission to narrate their history through popular culture and Nexflix's recent offering Farha. Sawafta is an Assistant Professor of...
16 Des 202224min
Lebanon, political elites, revolution and crisis: MEMO in conversation with Christiana Parreira
Christiana Parreira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research focuses on the role of local political i...
25 Nov 202235min
