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  • 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

  • Exterior view of a prison in Turkey. A guard is on patrol.
    Reports from Turkish women's prisons

    A square of sky

    In the 1970s and 80s, the author Asiye Müjgan Güvenli recorded the stories of women in Turkish prisons. Now the texts have been published in German and provide an insight into disturbing patriarchal conditions in Turkey at the time.

  • Even before the mass protests against the AfD in 2024, a cultural movement was forming against the rise of the far right
    German culture scene unites against far-right

    "The Many" against the AfD

    Germany's right-wing AfD continues to gain ground in the polls. Many involved in the country's cultural scene fear the party will restrict artistic freedoms following the next election and have therefore launched their own campaign

  • 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?

  • Two people stand outside a mosque after paint was sprayed on the façade of the building the night before, Leipzig, Germany, 20 April 2017
    The discourse about Islam in German politics

    From open to latent Islamophobia

    Sociologist and Islamic studies expert Imad Mustafa was commissioned by the Group of Independent Experts on Islamophobia (UEM) to conduct the first academic study of the discourse around Islam in Germany's political parties. His findings have recently been published in book form

  • Imam Ender Çetin
    Imams from Germany

    "The idea of a German Islam isn't all that strange"

    Ender Çetin is one of the first imams to have been trained in Germany. Are these imams the bridge-builders Germany needs right now?

  • 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

  • View of Istanbul from the water
    Turkish literature in translation

    Hakan Bicakci's disintegrating self

    At the heart of Hakan Bicakci's novel "Schlaftrunken" – literally 'half-asleep' – lies an Istanbul torn apart by the gentrifying diggers and a protagonist plagued by sleeplessness and nightmares, watching his life slip through his fingers

  • Historiker Jürgen Zimmerer von der Universität Hamburg
    Gaza war challenges Germany's culture of remembrance

    "Decent people must take a stand!"

    Germany is seeing a lurch to the right in its political discourse and minorities in society are being increasingly stigmatised. A new historical consciousness can counteract these trends, says historian Juergen Zimmerer in interview with Qantara.de

  • Around 35,000 people also took part in the protests in Hanover
    German demonstrations against right-wing extremism

    "Never again" is now

    Ever since the AfD's plans to deport immigrants were publicised, hundreds of thousands of people across Germany have taken to the streets in protest

  • This rabbi and imam travel together: Elias Dray (left) and Ender Cetin
    Dialogue in Germany

    An imam and a rabbi tour Berlin schools

    Tensions are running high over the conflict in the Middle East. In German schools, as elsewhere, discussions are controversial and emotional. An imam and a rabbi are working together to promote dialogue and understanding in these turbulent times

  • MENA Art Gallery: a haven for works by Arab artists.
    Middle Eastern and North African art in Europe

    MENA Art Gallery – haven for Arab art

    The MENA Art Gallery in downtown Berlin is the brainchild of Italian researcher Enrico De Angelis and Syrian visual artist Zena El Abdalla. One transliteration of the colloquial Arabic for 'port' is 'mena', reflecting the intention to provide a haven for works by Arab artists, as Rama Jarmakani reports

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