• Palestine Flag with City in the Background

    Students for Palestine Celebrate Palestinian Culture through their Exhibition

    Towards the end of the spring semester, Students for Palestine held various events during Israeli Apartheid week (20th - 24th March) to celebrate Palestinian culture and educate students about the key issues that the society have been raising awareness for throughout the year. Impact’s Lottie Murray headed down to...
  • Be The Change – Petitions To Sign This May

    At Impact, we recognise the importance of using your voice to make the world a better place. One of the ways we can do this is by signing petitions. In order to ‘Be The Change’ we want to see in the world in 2021, we have decided to compile...
  • Israel And Palestine: A Very Short History.

    The Arab-Israeli conflict is one of the longest and most controversial matters plaguing the world today. It is often gone unspoken about, but the eviction of the Jerusalem Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah and the violence that came as a result has been the subject of the latest surge...
  • SYRIAN CIVIL WAR: THE CURRENT STALEMATE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE COUNTRY

    A review of the current stalemate and the future prospects for the Syria which is now 2/3rds under the rule of President Bashar al-Assad....
  • Palestinian Paradise: Too good to be true?

    Rawabi, dubbed the ‘City of Dreams’, is one Palestinian’s answer to Paradise. That Palestinian is Bashar Masri, American-Palestinian multi-millionaire who has invested millions into this developing project. I went to meet Mr Masri and see Rawabi for myself. Built by Palestinians and for Palestinians, the impressive structural project has...
  • Film Sans Frontiers: Lending a Helping Hand

    At a time when borders are becoming increasingly more talked about than unison, The Nottingham Alternative Film Network put together an evening dedicated to the understanding and celebration of immigration. On March the 19th, at The White Lion Bar and Kitchen pub in Beeston, the Nottingham Alternative Network put...
  • A Student’s Guide to Understanding Middle Eastern Conflicts: Israel/Palestine

    While it’s important to keep up to date on current affairs and world politics, sometimes it’s almost impossible to understand exactly what’s happened in the past and what’s going on now – especially when it comes to conflicts in the Middle East. In these articles, Impact Features writer Natalie will try to...