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Saudi Arabia and the Protests in the Arab World

A Colossus with Feet of Clay

Saudi King Abdullah has promised tentative reforms, but if the government in Riyadh does not change its policy, especially towards the Shiites, the kingdom could be heading for trouble. By Guido Steinberg
EU Policy on North Africa and the Middle East

Morally Bankrupt

Reactions from the EU to the historic upheaval in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and other nations in North Africa and the Middle East have up to now been a moral and political disaster. By Andreas Zumach
No-fly Zone over Libya

An International Legal Dilemma

Should the international community intervene in Libya? And if so, on what basis could a no-fly zone be imposed? Opponents of the idea fear the situation could further descend into an unmanageable war. Background report by Andreas Zumach
The Arabs and the Libyan Intervention

Don't Steal Our Revolution!

The Arab democracy movement sets great store by its independence and now fears that the intervention in Libya will come with a high price tag: it could rob their protest of its legitimacy. Layla Al-Zubaidi comments
Afghanistan as a Travel Destination

A Mixture of Hospitality, Humour and Brutality

A plethora of new books on Afghanistan have recently been released on the German and English-language markets. Two of them, surprisingly, deal with travel and tourism in the land of the Hindu Kush. Martin Gerner introduces the books
Interview with Nadeem Aslam

"Within Three or Four Years the Texture of Pakistani Life Changed"

In this interview with Claudia Kramatschek, Nadeem Aslam talks about his native Pakistan, the military rule of Zia ul-Haque, and his most recent novel, about Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion
Nadeem Aslam's "Maps for Lost Lovers"

A Cosmos of Traditionalist Muslim Migrants

"Maps for Lost Lovers", the second novel of the Pakistani-British author Nadeem Aslam, is a poetic settling of accounts with Pakistani migrants in England. Stefan Weidner has read the book
Civil War in Yemen

An Uncertain Peace

Civil war has been waged in Yemen for years, largely unnoticed by the world community. In the northern Yemeni province of Saada, Zaidi Houthi rebels fight against government military forces. The conflict increasingly seems to be turning into a proxy war over regional supremacy, however. By Hanna Labonté
Political and Economic Crisis in Yemen

On the Brink

Fighting in the north, food riots, and shocking child marriages are currently drawing media attention to an obviously unstable country which has long been heading for collapse. Philipp Schweers reports from Sana'a
Interview with Bader Ben Hirsi

"I Wanted to Make a Film Which People Everywhere Would Understand"

The London-based filmmaker Bader Ben Hirsi has made the first Yemeni feature film ever. "A new day in old Sana'a" has been awarded several prizes, among them the Silver Falcon at the Sixth Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam. He spoke there to Larissa Bender