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Dealing with more than bombs

The first women to clear dangerous explosives in Libya are part of an international trend towards gender equality in the job. Cathrin Schaer and Islam Alatrash report

Algiers is banking on Europe's gas rush

Following the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's visit to Algeria, both countries are seeking to expand their energy cooperation. This will, however, only further cement Algiers' dependence on the gas rush. By Sofian Philip Naceur

Threats in place of investigation

The Iranian regime has pledged to mete out harsh punishments to those responsible for suspected poison attacks on girls’ schools. Such promises ring hollow. If nothing else, the state appears to tolerate the mysterious poisonings. Analysis by Ali Sadrzadeh

Exploring 19th Century Arabia with the Mind of an Accountant

Julius Euting, 19th-century German philosopher and Orientalist, embodied the dry empiricist spirit of his time. On his 1883-1884 journey to the Arabian Peninsula, however, he also made numerous exceptional and curious observations. Andreas Pflitsch reports

From One "Rogue State" to Another

For decades, relations between Syria and Iran have been close. And for several years now there has been a railway connection between the capitals of the two countries. Manuela Römer took the sixty-hour journey from Tehran to Aleppo in Northern Syria

An Islamic Debate on Bioethics within the Framework of Sharia

Bioethical issues are hotly discussed in Islamic countries. According to the Islam scholar Thomas Eich, the limits to medical intervention usually lie where it can result in harm to society or interference in God's creation. He spoke with Sarah Zada

Working Against the Misuse of Religion by Politics

The former Iranian Vice President Mohammed Ali Abtahi founded an institute for interreligious dialogue in Tehran. Now he is on trial in an Iranian revolutionary court. Corinna Mühlstedt spoke to him before his arrest

Muhammad as a Christological Honorific Title

In his book "The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research into Its Early History," the theologian Karl-Heinz Ohlig has come to the conclusion that Islam was not originally conceived as an independent religion. Alfred Hackensberger has talked with the author

Against the Cliché of the Islamic World as a Collective Society

In public discourse in the West, it is assumed that the Koran is the single foundation for Islamic faith, and other sources, which contribute to the diversity of the faith, are simply ignored. Marco Schöller, a scholar of Islam, has now translated the popular Hadith collection of al-Nawawi. An interview by Amin Farzanefar

The Law Comes From God

Salafists practice a literal interpretation of the Koran. For outsiders it is difficult to receive access to a congregation. Our reporter Albrecht Metzger succeeded in visiting a Salafist mosque in Aachen