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Elections in Indonesia

New President Yudhoyono Faces Difficult Tasks

On Wednesday Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was inaugurated as Indonesia's first ever directly elected president. In the world's largest Muslim country, he was delivered a massive mandate. Marianne Kearney reports
Between Piety and Modern Life

How Moderate Is Indonesian Society?

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, is currently doing its level best to position itself as a leader of moderate Islam in Asia. Stephen Fleay reports
Muftias

Women Issuing Fatwas

Until recently, it was unthinkable that in Turkey women could be appointed as mufti. In India, however, this has been common practice for quite some time. Now, this innovation seems to have reached Turkish shores as well, as Dilek Zaptcioglu reports.
Facebook – Has Young Egyptians Hooked Online

Cyberspace Link-Ups

At the end of last year, access to the US-based Facebook website became available to users throughout the world. Egyptian teenagers have been as enthusiastic as any of their contemporaries when it comes to exploring the pros and cons of networking. By Sherif Abdel Samad
Net Café Reconnects Refugees to Families

Unable to afford calls to their homelands, an enterprising group of asylum seekers in Potsdam set up their own Internet café. The project helps other refugees get in touch with their families and friends.
Portrait of Hilal Sezgin

"There's No Such Thing as a Typical Turkish Woman"

Hilal Sezgin is one of the few journalists of Turkish origin who reports intelligently and without bias on Islam, women's rights and integration in Germany– a boon for the features sections of German newspapers. Nimet Seker introduces the author
Intercultural Magazine "Mikses"

Meet Your Prejudice

Germany's new magazine Mikses hopes to inject new life into the country's media arena and act as a mouthpiece for the younger intercultural community. Nimet Seker paid the editors a visit
Migration, Youth Violence and Islam

A Culture of Looking Carefully

Is the high level of violence among first, second and third-generation migrants in Germany really due to Islam? Absolutely not, argues the cultural anthropologist Werner Schiffauer in an interview with Claudia Mende
Integration Debate

Islam Is Not the Solution

It would be a mistake to rely on Muslim organisations alone on integration issues. Religious initiatives do, of course, have an influence. But the secular organisations are more important, says Götz Nordbruch
Obituary Hrant Dink

A Voice of Moderation and Humanity

Following the assassination of Hrant Dink, one of the most prominent voices of Turkey's shrinking Armenian community, the country is still in a state of shock. Dorian Jones, Istanbul, remembers of the courageous editor of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly "Agos"