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  • Menschen mit Schwimmwesten, die von Freiwilligen der Ocean Viking, einem von den Nichtregierungsorganisationen SOS Mediterranee und der Internationalen Föderation des Roten Kreuzes (IFCR) betriebenen Such- und Rettungsschiff für Migranten, zur Verfügung gestellt wurden, fahren in einem Holzboot, 27. August 2022, südlich der italienischen Insel Lampedusa im Mittelmeer (Foto: picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jeremias Gonzalez)
    On fleeing to Germany

    Poems that strike a blow for freedom

    The new collection "Sei neben mir und sieh, was mir geschehen ist" (Be beside me and see what happened to me) features works by 29 poets who arrived in Germany as refugees. Their texts, written in German, Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, and Ukrainian, provide insights into their experiences.

  • Anti-government fighters celebrate in a street of Aleppo, Syria, on December 03, 2024.
    Syrian-Kurdish politician Elham Ahmed

    "Syria should be governed federally like Iraq or the UAE"

    Elham Ahmed, the foreign representative of northeast Syria, voices concern for minorities in Aleppo following the city’s recent capture. In an interview with Qantara, she outlines her vision of a decentralised Syria and comments on the German debate over the deportation of criminal refugees.

  • Two men sit facing away from the camera, looking over a field of makeshift shelters built from timber and corrogated iron.
    Sudanese refugees in Chad

    An uncertain future

    More than half a million people have fled war in Sudan into neighbouring Chad. Humanitarian workers are scrambling to provide support amid overcrowding, limited funding and widespread trauma.

  • Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) receives then Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) for a meeting in Aleppo, northern Syria, 06 February 2011.
    Turkey and Syria

    A renewed partnership?

    Damascus and Ankara came to blows following the outbreak of civil war in Syria. Now, the Turkish government and the Assad regime are seeking rapprochement. A diplomatic breakthrough would have consequences beyond regional relations—including for Germany.

  • 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

  • Mohammed Isbitah with his family
    One family's flight from Gaza

    "We escaped hell"

    Bombs, destruction, hunger: the situation of the people in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic. Those who can afford to flee to neighbouring Egypt. Mohamed Isbitah managed to do just that. He speaks to Qantara.de about his dramatic escape

  • Iranian author Nassir Djafari
    Nassir Djafari's "Der Großcousin"

    On the run

    A man who has lost touch with his Iranian roots meets a distant relative fleeing to Germany at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015. "Der Großcousin", Nassir Djafari's third novel, makes for a thrilling and topical read

  • Houses destroyed in airstrikes in Rafah (on Sunday): Last Hamas-dominated town in the Gaza Strip
    Get out of Gaza

    Exploiting the Palestinians

    In view of the catastrophic situation in Gaza, Palestinians all over the world are trying to get relatives out of the sealed-off enclave. Unscrupulous Egyptian businessmen are cashing in on people's desperation. Qantara.de reports from Cairo

  • Hope for the opposition after the 2024 local elections in Turkey
    After the local elections in Turkey

    An end to AKP rule?

    Last week's local election results in Turkey are a setback for the ruling AKP party and President Erdogan – but do they also herald an end to the party's uncontested power?

  • During the day, Syria Street is one of Tripoli's main thoroughfares
    Lebanon's Tripoli

    Old wounds and new problems on "Syria Street"

    Syria Street in Tripoli, Lebanon's second-largest city, was a microcosm of the Syrian Civil War for many years. Nowadays, a fragile calm hides the complexities of Lebanon's past and the resilience of its people

  • People in Gaza inspect the damage to their homes in Gaza following an Israeli airstrike
    Israel's offensive in Rafah

    What would make Egypt open its border to Palestinians?

    As an Israeli military campaign causes casualties in densely crowded Rafah, near the Egyptian border, Egypt is under increasing pressure to admit displaced Palestinians

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