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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.
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Unofficial State of Emergency in Cairo
As in all predominantly Islamic countries, life in Cairo is turned on its head during the month of Ramadan. Jürgen Stryjak's report conveys the general atmosphere in the city.
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Untiring in the Struggle against Powerlessness
Behjat Moaali is an unusual woman. As a courageous lawyer she defended women who had no rights in Iran after Khomeini came to power. Today she is the director of "Refugio" in Germany - a center for refugees who are victims of terror and violence.
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Interview
"Husband Friend" instead of "Boy Friend"
In Islamic societies pre-marital relations are not allowed. Nelly Ezzat interviewed an Egyptian-Dutch couple that found a way get around this dilemma - the so-called "friend marriage".
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A Bearer of Hope for Democratic Change
Shirin Ebadi is widely respected as a fighter for political dissidents - such as Faraj Sarkohi, whom she succeeded in having released after he had spent two years in jail. Here, Sarkohi describes the life and work of his former lawyer.
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Radio Multikulti - a Programme for the World
Rap from Senegal, Bhangra sounds from the Pakistani quarter in Birmingham or Klezmer music – Berlin’s multicultural radio 'Multikulti' sometimes sounds like a trip around the world in one hour. Volker Thomas reports
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'Sesame Street' Joins Mideast Peace Process
Cuddly characters with messages of trust and respect are beamed into the homes of Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian children as a specially adapted series of Sesame Street episodes begins across the Middle East.
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Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian Lawyer Shirin Ebadi
Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi becomes the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The jury emphasised Ebadi's fearless defence of human rights, especially those of women and children.
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Muslims in the US
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Muslims living in the US were increasingly suffered from assaults and harassment. Lale Konuk has visited the Muslim-Arab community in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Two-Fold Motivation: Anger and Humour
This year, Nabila Espanioly shared the international Aachen Peace Prize with the Jewish-Israeli historian and peace activist Reuven Moskowitz. Espanioly has been an energetic campaigner for peace between Israel and Palestine on the basis of the two-state solution.
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1st German University Abroad Opens in Cairo
The German University in Cairo has now opened its gates. The German-Egyptian project stands under the patronage of the the German Ministry of Education and Research and the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education, among others.
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Getting Cross with “Der Spiegel”
A week after the German Federal Constitutional Court pronounced its ruling in the “headscarf debate”, Germany’s leading weekly magazine Der Spiegel devoted its feature article on Muslims in Germany. Katajun Amirpur read the Spiegel for Qantara.de.
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Sex tourism in Egypt
A bride for the summer
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Middle East conflict
Shoah and Nakba – two interlinked catastrophes
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The Longest War – 20 years of the "War on Terror"
Afghanistan: Emran Feroz' chronology of a disaster
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Women in Saudi Arabia
Caught in a System of Gender Apartheid
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Ukraine conflict
Chechen and Tatar Muslims take up arms against Russia
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Interview with Salwa al-Neimi
The Liberation of Erotic Literature