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Muhammad Bakri

A Palestinian's Career in Film

The Palestinian actor and director Muhammad Bakri is well-known internationally. This year he received a Silver Leopard for best actor at the film festival in Locarno for his role in Saverio Costanzo's film "Private." A portrait by Amin Farzanefar
Arab Photographers' View of the "Orient"

Looking into the Blind Spot

Images that "orientalize" Middle Eastern subjects are widespread and well known. The Arab Image Foundation presents other views of this part of the world. Its online collection is a discovery, says Mona Sarkis
Historic Photographs of the Orient 1864-1970

With Camel and Camera

For decades, a unique collection of historic photographs of the Orient lay forgotten at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology. Now, the stock of 18,000 pictures has been catalogued and made accessible to the public in the form of an exhibition. Nimet Seker reports
Photography Exhibition in Sharjah: "Focus Orient"

A Photographic Journey into the Past

In the Emirate of Sharjah, the exhibition "Focus Orient" debuts over 200 historic photographs from the entire Islamic world. All shot by Europeans between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they show architecture, scenes of daily life and portraits in the Orientalist style. Georg Ossenbach reports from Sharjah
Interview with Rose Issa

"Culture Should Not Be Restricted to the West"

The Louvre has just signed a lucrative million-euro deal with Abu Dhabi. Critics in France fear a "sell-out" of French culture. In this interview with Lewis Gropp, Rose Issa, independent curator and art critic specialised on Middle East and North Africa, disagrees
Afghan Refugees in Iran

The Lowest of the Low

Afghans in Iran constitute one of the largest refugee populations in the world. It was recently reported that thousands have been executed. Iran and Afghanistan are arguing about this. By Iason Athanasiadis
Presidential Elections in Afghanistan

Successful Candidate – Shaky Candidate

Although Hamid Karsai has been declared the winner of the election, the Afghan president is now himself seen by the West as a cause of great insecurity and western governments involved in Afghanistan will be making an even greater effort to find an alternative to him. Report by Andreas Zumach
Afghanistan Five Years after the Taliban

In the Grip of the Jihadists

Hopes were high for Afghanistan's democratic renewal; but no one wanted to challenge the power of the warrior princes in the north of the country. Today Hamid Karzai's government is mired in a profound crisis of confidence. By Thomas Ruttig
Zoroastrians in Iran

In Decline

Next to Judaism, Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions and it was the state religion in the Persian Empire long before the Muslim conquest. Today, however, the faith ekes out a shadowy existence. Arian Fariborz reports
Islam in the US

The Trials of Being Muslim and American

Although individually many Muslims living in the United States consider themselves well integrated, the events of September 11 seriously damaged their collective image. Christina Bergmann reports