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  • A man with the flag of free Syria stands on the head of a toppled Assad statue.
    Leftist politics in Syria

    "I don't care whether Marx or Muhammad takes the credit"

    Since Assad's fall in December 2024, Syrians have witnessed both displays of unity and renewed sectarian violence. A national identity that transcends sect and ideology is the key to a stable future, says Syrian leftist Sami Hadaya.

  • A crowd of people make peace signs to the camera. Syrian revolutionary flags wave in the background.
    Syrians in Germany

    "We have suffered at the hands of this regime, its fall unites us"

    Stunned by the sudden collapse of the Assad regime, Syrians take their joy to the streets of Berlin. Some have already started planning their return home.

  • Anhänger der Opposition tragen am Dienstag, dem 10. Dezember 2024, auf dem Al-Hamidiyeh-Markt in der von einer Stadtmauer umgebenen Altstadt von Damaskus, Syrien, Fahnen der Opposition.(Foto: picture alliance / AP| Hussein Malla)
    Impressions from Syria

    The uncertainty of freedom

    An abandoned Assad-regime torture chamber, Kalashnikov-wielding rebels and a fearful archbishop. Karim El-Gawhary reports from the "new Syria"—a snapshot of history.

  • Israel's new religious nationalist elite
    The rise of Israel's religious nationalist sect

    Political Islam, political Judaism

    The 7 October Hamas attacks fanned the flames of a movement already virulent in Israel. Ever since, religious nationalists have been consolidating their influence. In Germany, where politicians prefer to focus solely on the dangers of Islamism, it is easier to ignore such developments

  • Feas of sacrifice under police protection in Karachi, Pakistan
    Ahmadis persecuted in Pakistan

    Sacrificial animals – a political issue

    In 1974, Ahmadi Muslims were declared a non-Muslim minority by the Pakistani parliament. Since then, it has become much harder for them to perform their religious duties

  • Displaced Syrian man Walid Muhammad Abdel-Baqi shows pictures of his dead son Walid on his phone
    Syrians in Lebanon

    Not safe to stay, not safe to go home

    Desperate Syrians are weighing up whether to stay in an increasingly hostile Lebanon or risk a precarious existence in areas held by the Syrian opposition. The return journey is deadly and conditions in Syria are tough

  • An Iranian pro-government supporter woman holds an anti-Israel poster on Palestine Street in downtown Tehran on 14 April 2024
    Israel, the USA and the Islamic Republic

    Understanding Iran's "offensive-defensive" strategy

    April 2024 not only saw Iran's unprecedented direct assault on Israel but also a violent crackdown on women in Iran refusing to wear the hijab. So what is behind Tehran's conflicting sense of hubris and insecurity?

  • Protesters waving flags and banners
    Islamists in Idlib

    Syrian protesters rise up against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

    Opponents of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad seeking refuge in Idlib are now protesting against local Islamist hardliners Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The group is accused of becoming increasingly dictatorial

  • Men and women, some wearing green Hamas scarves or holding up Hamas flags, point their right index fingers in the air at a rally in April 2022
    Book review: Joseph Croitoru on Hamas

    The dark power of the "liberators"

    How did Hamas come to rule over the Gaza Strip? And what developments led to 7 October? Historian Joseph Croitoru has the answers. His level-headed assessment of the facts lends this book a particular importance.

  • Al Jazeera and Channel 14
    War propaganda in Israel and the Arab world

    Spewing poison in both directions

    In addition to the actual warfare in Gaza, another, lesser known burden is weighing on the prospects for a better future in the Middle East. Influential media channels are lending support to the most radical forces on both sides of the conflict

  • Prabowo Subianto (left) declares victory in Indonesia's presidential election
    Indonesia's presidential election

    K-Pop not Islam

    This year's Valentine's Day saw a presidential election in Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy. Conservative-Islamic morals and panic-mongering tactics took a back seat on social media channels filled with music, cat videos…and elderly presidential hopefuls dancing

  • Poster advertising the Turkish television series "Red Buds"
    Turkey

    "Red Buds" – a TV series divides the country

    The Turkish media authority has imposed a two-week broadcasting ban and fine on the series "Red Buds", in which religious and liberal worlds collide. The series is apparently too close to the bone

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