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  • As Sweden grapples with the diplomatic fallout of a series of Koran burnings, radicals on all sides are rubbing their hands and exploiting the moment.
    Sweden Koran burnings

    Playing to the radicals

    As Sweden grapples with the diplomatic fallout of a series of Koran burnings, radicals on all sides are rubbing their hands and exploiting the moment. Birgit Svensson travelled from Baghdad to Stockholm to get the full picture

  • UN climate summit in Egypt

    Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's greenwashing fail

    COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh is turning into a PR disaster for Egypt’s military regime. Instead of praise for the host, the news is full of solidarity for imprisoned activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and criticism of the event’s grotesque surveillance measures. By Sofian Philip Naceur

  • The animation allows visualisation of the entire story, revealing what would otherwise have remained hidden.
    Afghan refugee confronts his past

    "Flee", one man's story

    Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Oscar-nominated animated documentary “Flee” focuses on the life of a refugee from Afghanistan. Based on a true story, it centres around the question: when does flight end? By Jane Esher

  • On 25 June 2022, "Flugt" opened as a unique museum, the only one of its kind in the world to date that focuses on the stories of refugees.
    Denmark's new "Flugt" Museum

    Flight has a million faces

    "Flugt" is the world's first museum dedicated to the stories of those forced to flee. The new museum, which focuses on the fates of refugees then and now, is housed in a former camp for German war refugees on the west coast of Denmark. By Oliver Ristau

  • Hamburg lawyer Eigen Balin of the Jewish Diplomatic Corps.
    Jewish Diplomatic Corps visits UAE

    "Our preconceptions are at odds with reality"

    Hamburg lawyer Eugen Balin is a member of the World Jewish Congress' Jewish Diplomatic Corps. At the end of 2021, a delegation of the Corps visited the United Arab Emirates, which established full diplomatic relations with Israel in the summer of 2020. Interview by Christoph Strack

  • On the death of Danish Siddiqui: Capturing the human in breaking news

    India is not alone in feeling great sadness today over the death of renowned Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui. He was killed in Afghanistan during clashes between Afghan security forces and the Taliban.

  • Polling station for Syrian citizens in Lebanon in a tent. The voting booths are partitioned off with cloths to which Syrian flags are attached. Portraits of the three candidates hang from the ceiling. Polling officers assign free voting booths to voters.
    Loyalty and legitimacy in Syria

    Bashar al-Assad's staging of the presidential election

    By stage-managing his re-election in a poll widely dismissed as a farce, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has killed two birds with one stone: he has forced his compatriots to demonstrate their loyalty and submission and will use the outcome to get money from abroad. He needs both to stay in power. By Kristin Helberg

  • #MeToo and Muslim women

    Danish author Sara Omar – Breaking taboos for Muslim women

    Born amid the horrors of war in Iraqi Kurdistan, Danish author Sara Omar now uses her voice to denounce violence inflicted on women in the name of reactionary Islam, a "calling" that has left her living under police protection

  • Danish Muslims defy face veil ban

    Under the new Danish law banning facial veils, police are able to instruct women to unveil or order them to leave public areas. Fines range from 1,000 Danish crowns ($160) for a first offence to 10,000 crowns for a fourth violation.  By Andrew Kelly

  • Tobias Lindholmʹs "A War"

    Nordic tragedy in Afghanistan

    Released in 2015, Tobias Lindholmʹs "A War" was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film. Part frontline thriller, part courtroom drama, the film examines the simple question: what do you do, when there is no right answer? By Hans Dembowski

  • Copenhagen′s mosque led by women

    When the muezzina calls

    Friday prayers are regularly held in Europe′s first female-led mosque. In a further innovative step, a new Islamic academy for the training of female imams for Denmark is about to open its doors. Ulrike Hummel reports from Copenhagen

  • ″Deportation Regime″ at Copenhagen′s CAMP art gallery

    The right of blood

    CAMP describes itself as a exhibition venue ″for art discussing questions of displacement, migration, immigration and asylum.″ Changiz M. Varzi visited its latest exhibition – Deportation Regime

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