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  • Feminist art from Pakistan

    Thoughtful, provocative, chic: Shehzil Malik's fresh aesthetic seeks social transformation in a conservative, male-dominated society – sometimes by deliberately flaunting social conventions

  • Cartoonists in the Arab world

    Children of the revolution

    How are comic book artists in the Arab world responding to the political situation in the region? Lena Bopp talks to illustrators Lina Ghaibeh and George Khoudry about young artists' collectives and feminist superheroes

  • The animation allows visualisation of the entire story, revealing what would otherwise have remained hidden.
    Afghan refugee confronts his past

    "Flee", one man's story

    Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Oscar-nominated animated documentary “Flee” focuses on the life of a refugee from Afghanistan. Based on a true story, it centres around the question: when does flight end? By Jane Esher

  • Mohamed Abla was the first visual artist from Egypt to receive the Goethe Medal awarded by the Goethe-Institut, the highest award of foreign cultural policy in Germany.
    Mohamed Abla awarded Goethe Medal

    Telling stories through art

    Mohamed Abla is the first visual artist from Egypt to be awarded the Goethe-Institut’s Goethe Medal, Germany’s highest honour in the area of foreign cultural policy. Stefan Weidner sheds some light on the artist’s work

  • A woman holds up an Israel flag while the painting by Indonesian artist Taring is mounted.
    Anti-Semitism at documenta15

    "The documenta is in ruins"

    Anti-Semitic motifs have no place at Germany’s documenta art show or anywhere else in the world, stresses Meron Mendel, director of the Anne Frank Educational Centre in Frankfurt. But he also says: this is not an anti-Semitic documenta. Interview by Stefan Dege

  • Rabbi Elhanan Miller on interfaith dialogue

    "People of the Book" brings Jews and Muslims together

    Conceived by Israeli journalist and rabbi Elhanan Miller, "People of the Book" is a YouTube project designed to provide information on Judaism in Arabic. Disarming prejudice with humour, Miller's cartoons aim to promote mutual understanding between Jews and Arabs. Interview by Claudia Mende

  • Pete Katz and "The Prophet: A Graphic Novel"

    Romantic ideals for a new generation

    Often disdained by intellectuals, Kahlil Gibran’s "The Prophet" has remained immensely popular for nearly a century since its publication in 1923. Now one of the most translated books in history has undergone another translation – into the visual sphere – by Pete Katz, who both adapted and illustrated the new volume. By Nahrain Al-Mousawi

  • Paying a high price for its aggressive foreign policy: " Turkey is more isolated in the region today than it has been for a long time. And in Europe and the EU, Erdogan is largely on his own. His verbal attacks against Macron can hardly be perceived here as a programme geared at making amends," writes Meinardus
    Turkish views on Erdogan's feud with Macron

    "Religion is the President's last resort"

    Relations between Ankara and Paris have reached a new low, with presidential communications contributing to the escalation. To describe recent bilateral exchanges as undiplomatic would be the height of diplomacy. By Ronald Meinardus

  • Muhammad cartoon controversy

    Macron and the Muhammad tempest in a Twitter teapot

    French President Macron's statements that caricatures of Muhammad may still be published have triggered outrage in a number of Muslim states. Turkish President Erdogan is among the most vocal critics. Karim El-Gawhary reports

  • Book review: Riad Sattouf’s graphic novel "The Arab of the Future"

    Between worlds

    Despite his main focus being on his childhood and youth, spent between East and West, Riad Sattouf also describes the current state of the Arab world in his much-lauded graphic novel series "The Arab of the Future". By Schayan Riaz

  • Mohammad Sabaaneh′s "White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine"

    Punching through the glass

    Packed with more than a hundred single-page political cartoons, this compilation of Mohammad Sabaaneh′s work, which draws on different periods of the artist′s life, offers a complex and often surrealist take on the daily struggles facing those in the West Bank and Gaza. By Marcia Lynx Qualey

  • Interview with graphic novelist Riad Sattouf

    The eternal fascination with coming-of-age

    The French graphic novelist Riad Sattouf is best known for his memoir, "The Arab of the Future". Bettina Baumann met him to discuss his latest series, "Esther's Notebooks", which tells stories from the perspective of a young girl

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