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  • Two women are standing in a house lounge, looking into the shadow.
    "Fighting the Flow" by Algerian author Saïd Khatibi

    The weight of colonial memory

    Saïd Khatibi's "Fighting the Flow" explores French colonialism's violent legacy in Algerian society after the War of Liberation. The novel poses the question: can individuals liberate themselves from their past?

  • People walking through an indoor market.
    Bushra Khalfan's "Dilshad"

    Three generations of Omani history

    Bushra Khalfan's award-winning "Dilshad" traces the story of one family through 20th-century Oman, shedding light on the untold stories of marginalised women and their fight for agency.

  • Young people in Gaza sit on a cart loaded with furniture and other belongings and leave the destroyed city
    A new phase in the Middle East conflict

    History and the war on Gaza

    According to the Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi, the Middle East conflict and the war in Gaza are in many ways a consequence of imperial interventions. “Resolution can only be based on dismantling entrenched structures of supremacy and discrimination”, he asserts. Only in this way a two-state solution can be realised.

  • A damaged Star of David on a gravestone in Berlin (symbolic image)
    What is anti-Semitism?

    How do you differentiate?

    A new anthology sheds light on the various forms of anti-Semitism and the academic debate surrounding it in the light of current controversial debates

  • Commemoration and remembrance – Germany is still considered a role model – Memorial Day for the liberation of Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Brandenburg
    Germany, the Holocaust and colonialism

    Controversy over 'culture of remembrance' reform

    Germany's coalition government wants to expand its remembrance culture to include the country's colonial history. Initial proposals have been met with criticism, in particular from heads of Holocaust memorial sites

  • People attend the rally "Against terror and antisemitism! Solidarity with Israel" organised by Germany's Central Council of Jews, political parties, unions and civil society, at Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 22 October 2023
    The quagmire of historical responsibility

    Germany's misguided fight against anti-Semitism

    Assessing Israel more critically than other nations is considered anti-Semitic. Yet treating Israel more favourably is problematic too. Philo-Semitism – the unquestioning endorsement of anything Jewish – does not help in the fight against anti-Semitic prejudice

  • 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

  • Scene in Gaza City after an Israeli army bombing raid
    Middle East debate in Germany

    The bell of Gaza

    With its fossilised premise of "raison d'etat" Germany is damaging itself. It is time for change – for constructive partnership in a concerted effort to overcome the Israeli-Palestinian catastrophe

  • The Al-Dajani family in front of their Jerusalem home, 1945
    Middle East conflict

    Life in Palestine before the Nakba

    "Against Erasure" documents the diversity of life in Palestine before the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948, building a solid foundation for sorely needed, well-grounded discourse on the Middle East

  • Window with a view – the hotel is located right next to the Israeli "barrier"
    Middle East: Is there a solution to the endless conflict?

    Welcome to Abraham/Ibrahim

    Who invented it? The Swiss. Why it might be worth looking to the Swiss Confederation in the search for a solution to the Middle East conflict

  • 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

  • The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades.
    Israel, Hamas and the war in Gaza

    Seven uncomfortable truths

    Anyone wanting to fully understand the current Middle East crisis must face up to realities on the ground. For many, however, this is at odds with the schematic picture they have in their heads. Here are seven uncomfortable truths crucial to de-escalating the situation and finding a solution

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