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  • A man walks in the narrow streets of the spice market.
    Cairo's Jewish Quarter

    The neighbourhood that shaped a nation

    In his new book, Egyptian author Ahmed Zakaria Zaki explores the 19th-century history of Cairo's Jewish Quarter, tracing the social transformations within the city's Jewish community and its reaction to the emergent Zionist movement.

  • Ein Mann mit Benzinkanistern in einer Straße im Gazastreifen (picture alliance / Zumapress | D. El-Baz Apaimages)
    New books on Gaza

    Turning point, failure, moral abdication

    Four well-known authors address the global consequences of Gaza's destruction and Western support for Israel, or as one frames it: the "world after Gaza". Charlotte Wiedemann takes a look.

  • A sunset over the Damascus skyline.
    Short stories by Moussa Abadi

    Multi-religious life in the Jewish Quarter of Damascus

    Syrian author Moussa Abadi depicts peaceful coexistence in the Jewish Quarter of 1920s Damascus in ‘The Queen and the Calligrapher’. The characters may be quirky and the stories bizarre, but they show us that the Damascus of yesterday could be a model for our own time.

  • 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

  • Commemoration and remembrance – Germany is still considered a role model – Memorial Day for the liberation of Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Brandenburg
    Germany, the Holocaust and colonialism

    Controversy over 'culture of remembrance' reform

    Germany's coalition government wants to expand its remembrance culture to include the country's colonial history. Initial proposals have been met with criticism, in particular from heads of Holocaust memorial sites

  • Photo artist Steve Sabella in his studio in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
    Palestinians in Germany

    End of the Berlin Spring

    The German capital has attracted many Palestinian artists and intellectuals in recent years. Yet since the war in Gaza began, a sense of disillusionment has set in within the community

  • The Israeli-Palestinian duo Shai Hoffmann and Jouana Hassoun
    Promoting Jewish-Palestinian dialogue

    "Agitators can't be allowed to dominate the debate"

    Jouanna Hassoun and Shai Hoffmann talk to young people about the war in Gaza. The first step is to listen, says the Jewish-Palestinian duo

  • This rabbi and imam travel together: Elias Dray (left) and Ender Cetin
    Dialogue in Germany

    An imam and a rabbi tour Berlin schools

    Tensions are running high over the conflict in the Middle East. In German schools, as elsewhere, discussions are controversial and emotional. An imam and a rabbi are working together to promote dialogue and understanding in these turbulent times

  • German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stands next to a German flag and addresses representatives of Jewish and Muslim organisations
    Germany and the Israel-Hamas war

    The need to bridge societal rifts

    Reporting deep rifts in German society, representatives of the country's Jewish and Muslim communities attended a round-table meeting called by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to discuss the consequences of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel

  • President Xi Jinping and PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas (left) in Beijing in June 2023
    War in the Middle East

    What's China's stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict?

    Beijing is seeking to mediate in the war between Israel and Hamas. China has condemned both parties' violence. Despite this, public hostility towards Israel prevails

  • New York is home to a two million-strong Jewish community that has suffered anguish in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks. Many back the Israeli government's response and have rallied in support of Israel. Others are unsettled by the current military campaign and the huge price paid by Palestinian civilians.
    'Not in our name'

    Jewish New Yorkers speak out against 'dehumanisation' of Palestinians

    New York's two million-strong Jewish community has suffered anguish in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks. While many back the Israeli government's response and have rallied in support of Israel, others are unsettled by the Gaza military campaign and the huge price paid by Palestinian civilians

  • Reminding people of the close ties that once bound Muslims and Jews in Iran and elsewhere, American-Iranian vocalist and songwriter Galeet Dardashti's "Monajat" travels through time to transcend seemingly impassable geographical and cultural borders.
    Galeet Dardashti's "Monajat"

    Dedicated to Muslims and Jews everywhere

    Reminding people of the close ties that once bound Muslims and Jews in Iran and elsewhere, American-Iranian vocalist and songwriter Galeet Dardashti's "Monajat" travels through time to transcend seemingly impassable geographical and cultural borders. By Richard Marcus

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