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  • B/W photo of a group of people standing in front of a lit-up sign that says "Saytheirnames"
    Documentary on racist attack in Germany

    Fighting for the truth in Hanau

    Director Marcin Wierzchowski has been following the families of the victims in Hanau since the day after the shootings. His new documentary, "Das Deutsche Volk", premiered last week, marking the fifth anniversary of the racist attack.

  • Wahlplakate in Frankfurt am Main
    German elections 2025

    The myth of the "dual national criminal"

    In this election campaign, people with "migrant backgrounds" are being depicted as a threat to public safety. The term "criminal foreigners" is being widely used, and candidates are calling for the revocation of dual citizenship. But these arguments have no basis in fact.

  • Radfahrer vor Wahlkampfplakaten
    German elections 2025

    Debates on the Middle East, migration and antisemitism

    Germany heads to the polls on 23 February. Where do the main parties stand on migration, Israel and Gaza, antisemitism and the future of Syria?

  • Professor Kai Hafez from Erfurt University
    German coverage of the Middle East

    "Germany's reputation is suffering"

    Media expert Kai Hafez talks to Qantara.de about German coverage of the Gaza war, traditional narratives and the link to Islamophobic attitudes within society

  • 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

  • Rohingya refugee sings for Ian Brennan's "Once We Had A Home" album
    Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan

    Recording Rohingyas' raw emotion

    Brennan's "Once We Had A Home" is a searing document of the reality faced by Rohingya refugees squeezed into the massive Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border

  •  The storefront where a bomb exploded 20 years ago, the shop window filled with portraits of people
    Germany's multicultural society

    Racism 'on the rise' 20 years after NSU bombing

    On 9 June 2004, a nail bomb exploded in the heart of a bustling Turkish community in Cologne. German officials quickly rejected the notion that the attack was motivated by racism – and they accused the victims instead

  • Even before the mass protests against the AfD in 2024, a cultural movement was forming against the rise of the far right
    German culture scene unites against far-right

    "The Many" against the AfD

    Germany's right-wing AfD continues to gain ground in the polls. Many involved in the country's cultural scene fear the party will restrict artistic freedoms following the next election and have therefore launched their own campaign

  • Islam, Judaism, Christian: symbols of the 3 monotheistic religions
    Germany and the Gaza war

    Jewish and Muslim communities search for solidarity

    Six months of Israeli retaliation in Gaza for the October 7 Hamas terror attacks have put Jewish-Muslim relations in particular peril. Germany's hypersensitivity to anti-Semitism adds an extra layer of difficulty

  • Chanted thousands of times, but highly controversial: pro-Palestinian slogan ‘From the river to the sea’ at a demonstration in London
    “From the river to the sea”

    How to interpret a slogan

    The notion that the slogan is sweepingly anti-Semitic falls short of the mark. But extremist interpretations need to be condemned – on both the Israeli and the Palestinian side

  • Rubble as far as the eye can see in Gaza
    Germany and the Netanyahu government

    Death zone Gaza: Germany is complicit

    For years, Germany has been Israel's second most important supplier of arms. As a result, German weapons have ended up being used in the Gaza war. As evidence piles up of serious legal violations by Israel, the question of whether the German government is complicit in this catastrophic situation must be asked

  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wearing a saffron cap, greets supporters from an open vehicle
    General election in Modi's India

    "Muslims are the principal target"

    With elections on 19 April, India looks set to re-elect Narendra Modi's BJP party, greenlighting an ongoing process of Hinduisation on the subcontinent. The persecution of Muslims and other minorities will intensify. Yet India has little to fear in the way of criticism from its Western allies, says political scientist Achin Vanaik

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