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  • A man wearing a white robe puts a slip of paper into a ballot box.
    Kuwait’s political future

    Can semi-democracy survive?

    Six months after Kuwait's new emir dissolved parliament, its members have yet to resume their work. Still, there are strong indications that the country’s unique parliamentary system will prevail.

  • An handout picture provided by the Israeli Goverment Press Office on 4 May 2008 shows Arabs fleeing with just the possessions they are able to carry as they make their way toward Lebanon from villages in the Galilee during Israel's 1948 War of Independence
    Middle East conflict

    Two peoples' experience of displacement

    The Israel-Palestine conflict is multilayered and very complex. The greatest problem is that both sides have reason to believe the other wants to destroy them

  • A road sign indicating the route to Egypt's Administrative Capital, designed to accommodate six and a half million people
    Egypt's New Capital

    Counter-revolution completed

    With Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's move into his new presidential palace and the inauguration of the new administrative capital, the Egyptian military's counter-revolution of 30 June 2013 is complete

  • Indonesia's former President Joko Widodo in the background
    Elections in Indonesia

    World's third largest democracy at a crossroads

    On 14 February 2024, some 205 million Indonesians are going to the polls to choose a new president as well as new national and regional parliaments. Over the past 25 years, the nation with the world's largest Muslim population has evolved into a stable democracy. Yet observers now fear autocratic tendencies

  • 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

  • A pro-Palestinian rally in Yemen's capital Sanaa on 5 January
    Germany and the Gaza war

    Arab criticism of German hypocrisy

    Germany used to be a role model for the Arab world. That has changed since the Israeli army killed thousands of civilians in the war against Hamas – with barely a murmur of opposition from German politicians

  • German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip
    Germany's policy on Egypt

    Neither value-driven nor feminist

    Germany's policy on Egypt is based on economic interests and a fear the country may collapse. As a result it contributes to stabilising Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's brutal regime

  • A Palestinian scarf is held aloft amid a sea of hands during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Egypt
    Arab popular support for Gaza

    How pro-Palestinian protests threaten Middle East autocrats

    In some Middle Eastern countries, pro-Palestinian rallies recall pro-democracy protests from 2011. Now, the region's authoritarian leaders are worried the conflict in Gaza could alter the political status quo at home

  • Children and their teacher in a Turkish primary school classroom
    Refugees

    Battling public mood, Turkey quietly assimilates Syrians

    Mahmud Abdi came to Turkey hoping to return once the bloodshed ebbed. Almost a decade later, the 30-year-old carpenter is looking to open his own workshop in the southeastern Turkish city of Sanliurfa, where a quarter of the two million inhabitants are Syrian

  • The Syrian Orthodox Church of St Behnam and Sarah in Karakosh, Iraq
    Christians in Iraq

    The demons of Karakosh

    Christians in Iraq are under massive pressure. With the burning of a Koran by Christian Iraqi Salwan Momika in Sweden, the nationwide ban on alcohol, as well as the tragic fire at a recent wedding reception, life isn't getting any easier for them

  • Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (left) and Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) displayed on banners during a naval display in Istanbul
    Turkey at 100

    What will become of Ataturk's legacy?

    A century ago, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic based on secular values. Today, many fear his vision is under threat by conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  • Armenian genocide denial is a great and enduring lie by the Turkish state, characterised by ongoing violence and racism. Yavuz Ekinci takes up the subject in an unsparing and powerful novel: "Das ferne Dorf meiner Kindheit" – 'the distant village of my childhood'. Gerrit Wustmann read the book
    The deserted villages of the soul

    Yavuz Ekinci's new novel

    Armenian genocide denial is a great and enduring lie by the Turkish state, characterised by ongoing violence and racism. Yavuz Ekinci takes up the subject in an unsparing and powerful novel: "Das ferne Dorf meiner Kindheit" – 'the distant village of my childhood'. Gerrit Wustmann read the book

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