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  • Traffic chaos in the megacity of Karachi, Pakistan
    Africans in Pakistan

    Magical Karachi

    Juergen Wasim Frembgen's new book, "Bambasa Street", is a fascinating account of the traditions of the African diaspora in Pakistan's largest metropolis

  • A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer detains a protestor while clearing a pro-Palestinian camp after dispersal orders were given at UCLA campus, Los Angeles, USA, 2 May 2024
    Protests at US universities

    "What's needed now is dialogue"

    The impact of the protests and police crackdowns at US universities goes far beyond the campuses where they are taking place and is likely to affect the outcome of this year's presidential election

  • Historian and Holocaust researcher Omer Bartov
    Holocaust researcher Omer Bartov

    "Germany could help Israel and Palestine on the path to reconciliation"

    In interview with Qantara.de, leading Holocaust researcher Omer Bartov talks about the indictment against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the instrumentalisation of anti-Semitism and Germany's possible role in a two-state solution

  • Pro-Palestine protest at the Freie Universität Berlin
    German academia and the war in Gaza

    Universities must remain places of dialogue

    Discussions about the Middle East conflict naturally tend towards polarisation. In Germany, showing empathy for victims of political violence in Israel while drawing attention to the suffering of Gazan and West Bank Palestinians, who bear the brunt of any major confrontation, is a tricky balancing act

  • Dancing dervishes from the Mevlana Order
    750th anniversary of Rumi's death – Part 6

    Academic research and spiritual exploration

    No Islamic mystic in the past two centuries has touched literary figures and academics in both East and West as much as Rumi. A look at the history of research into this hugely influential spiritual teacher

  • Philosophy, Arab world trend

    Erich Fromm's advice for troubled times

    The writings of German-American philosopher Erich Fromm (1900-1980) are trending in the Arab world. Claudia Mende asked Hamid Lechhab, translator of Fromm's works into Arabic, what might be behind this

  • Language develops in different areas of the brain. Researchers have been able to show that the way these are linked varies according to the respective native language – knowledge that could prove useful in the treatment of stroke patients, for instance.
    Language and language acquisition

    How the brain processes German and Arabic

    Language develops in different areas of the brain. Researchers have been able to show that the way these are linked varies according to the respective native language – knowledge that could prove useful. By Katrin Ewert

  • Pakistan's struggle with underinvestment in education and digitisation has resulted in high illiteracy rates and systemic discrimination against girls and less privileged students. While some positive examples can be found in institutions catering for persons with disabilities, the overall picture remains bleak.
    Education in Pakistan

    Digital learning for more opportunity

    Pakistan's struggle with underinvestment in education and digitisation has resulted in high illiteracy rates and systemic discrimination. While some positive examples can be found in institutions catering for persons with disabilities, the overall picture remains bleak. By Marva Khan

  • Middle East expert Udo Steinbach has been advocating closer relations with the Gulf states for years.
    Udo Steinbach on Europe and the Gulf

    Let's have none of the old arrogance

    Middle East expert Udo Steinbach has been advocating closer relations with the Gulf states for years. Genuine interest in regional development, however, needs to look beyond the stereotypes. Birgit Svensson spoke to him in Baghdad

  • Videos from cities near the epicentre have captured a devastating form of collapse some call "pancaking" – this happens when an entire building falls, each storey collapsing one on top of the other. The chance of survival for someone in a pancaked building is slim.
    Turkey-Syria quake

    Weak buildings, shallow shock caused deaths

    The instability of old buildings was responsible for much of the wreckage in Monday’s earthquake along the Turkey-Syria border. But the earthquake was also abnormally strong for its magnitude. Clare Roth has the details

  • The origins of the Maghreb

    Was the Arab Maghreb a French invention?

    The book "The Invention of the Maghreb: between Africa and the Middle East" prompts us to review basic terminology. This includes terms that we use almost every day as if they are definitive by virtue of geography, history and culture, such as "the Arab Maghreb", "North Africa", "the Middle East" and "sub-Saharan Africa". Shady Lewis Botros read the book

  • Hieroglyphs exhibition at the British Museum

    Museums with guilt complexes

    To celebrate the bicentenary of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, the British Museum is running an exhibition entitled "Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt" until February 2023. While Shady Lewis Botros welcomes the museum's effort to broaden the Eurocentric focus of the exhibition, he says that it "lays bare a critical approach and a potential for revisionism" and remains largely decorative

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