Jessica Purkiss
Jessica Purkiss is a former staff writer for Memo. She is now a junior reporter on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's Covert Drone War team. She has also spent two years reporting from Palestine
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Jorge Luis Garcia
Luis Garcia is a Cuban diplomat and a graduate of the Cuban Superior Institute of International Relations, Raúl Roa García. He has been appointed to several positions at various Cuban Embassies, including those in Poland, Venezuela and the United Kingdom. His roles have included consul, press officer, administrative officer and political counsellor.
Karen Koning AbuZayd
Karen AbuZayd has spent 19 years working with Palestinian refugees with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. She then worked with UNRWA for 10 years. She began her humanitarian career in the Sudan in 1981, then Nambia in 1989, then to Sierra Leone during the...
Khaled Meshaal
Khaled Meshaal is a Palestinian leader and has been the head of the Islamic Resistance Movemennt, Hamas' political bureau since 1996. He was born in 1956 in the West Bank village of Silwad and has lived in exile since the Six-Day War of 1967. Meshaal joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1971 and following the official...
Laura Malagón Sotero
Laura Malagón Sotero has a Bachelor’s degree in History (2019) from the University of Havana (UH). Sotero is studying for a Master’s degree in Contemporary History and International Relations (UH) and works at the Africa and Middle East Group of the Research Centre for International Policy (CIPI), Havana, Cuba. She specialises in North African issues...
Linda Maher
Linda Maher is a Palestinian journalist, based in Hebron, West Bank. She frequently writes for the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).
Lucas Bonatto Diaz
Lucas Bonatto Diaz is a musician and electronic music songwriter from Sant’Anna do Livramento, south Brazil. He does scoring and sound design for films and has a degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Pampa.
Mario Antonio Padilla Torres
Mario Antonio Padilla Torres holds a PhD in Philosophical Sciences, University of Havana, Master in Historical Sciences, Diploma in Culture, Bachelor of Political Science. Professor and Principal Investigator. He serves as Academic Secretary and Head of the Project on International Terrorism of the Research Center for International Policy (CIPI) of Cuba. He is a specialist...
Mayra Barzaga García
Mayra Barzaga García has a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Philosophy at the Higher Pedagogical Institute “Enrique José Varona”. Titular Teacher. She is dedicated to prospective research on the scenarios of the correlations of political forces in Latin America.
Middle East Monitor
The use or misuse of information is central to the conflict in the Middle East. There has been a growing need for supporters of, in particular, the Palestinian cause, to master the art of information gathering, analysis and dissemination. This requires well organised, focused and targeted operations. Such initiatives are virtually non-existent in the West...