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French Muslims Launch Their Own TV Station

There are four to five million Muslims in France, but only recently have they had a television station to call their own. However, Beur TV is not simply an Al Jazeera knockoff.

Istanbul Summer Course

The University of Istanbul invites European students to participate in a summer course on Turkish literature, language, and regional studies. Final application date: June 20th.

A Carnival of Cultures

Roughly one million people gathered in Berlin for a four-day cultural festival, called the “Carnival of Cultures”. The event, now in its eighth year, was conceived to encourage dialogue between people of different nationalities, religions and culture in the city.

Auschwitz Revisited Brings a Ray of Hope

A duty to peace: A group of 250 Jews and Arab Israelis visited the death camps to remember the Holocaust. It was a symbolic opportunity for Arab Israelis to come to understand the pain that Jewish people carry from memories of the Holocaust. A report by Igal Avidan

About the Comforts and Sorrows of Exile

In August last year, Deutsche Welle's World Music Department commissioned a group of primarily Iraqi musicians to write some new music. The project resulted in a CD recorded in April and a concert being held in Bonn. Suzanne Watt reports

Building Bridges with Books

Building a bridge between the Middle East and the West is no small task, but its something the organizers of this year's book fair in Frankfurt hope to accomplish. Can literature and commerce do the job?

Kant's Cosmopolitan Philosophy

The thinking of only a few great philosophers is entirely cosmopolitan. Immanuel Kant, the world citizen from Königsberg, is an outstanding exception, writes Otfried Höffe, professor for political philosophy at Tübingen University.

"From the Red Star to the Blue Dome"

The ifa gallery Berlin is currently showing an exhibition that traces transformations in Central Asian art and architecture. The exhibition displays the recent trend toward recovering Islamic traditions in the region. By Christina M. White

Breaking Taboos Is Not Enough

Ibrahim Farghali is one of six authors from the Arab world invited by the Goethe Institute to work as city chronicler in Germany. In his portrait, Frederik Richter talked with him about Hermann Hesse, Günther Grass and censorship in Egypt.

Moral Guidance from a TV Detective

Hichem Rostom is a familiar face from film and television – not just for Arab viewers, but also in the West through his roles in 'The English Patient' and numerous BBC productions. An interview by Martina Sabra