Ukrainian refugees waiting at the  Polish-Ukrainian border where some organisations and volunteers provided aids. Budomierz, 05.03.2022, Photo: Milad Amin
08.05.2022
Five days after the war in Ukraine had started, the Syrian activist and journalist Milad Amin travelled to the Polish border with a van full of collected donations. In this photo essay, he tries to capture the thoughts that the trip provoked in him...
Memorial of the Berlin wall. Photo: Pauline Jäckels
18.04.2022
Walls, barbed wire, seas – borders are diverse, determine nations and destinies. But borders also manifest themselves in our minds in the form of reference frames and thus determine our solidarity. Europe’s reaction to the Ukrainian situation...
Bosnian bistro, meeting point at the border. Photo: Dominik Winkler
29.03.2022
People supporting illegalized migrants at the European Union’s external borders “give” solidarity. But what do they receive in return? Based on personal experience in Bosnia, this essays reflects the “giving and taking” at the EU's external borders...
"Bread, work, freedom" is one of the slogans women chant to protest against the repressive politics of the Taliban, also in the educative sector. Illustration: Zaide Kutay
11.03.2022
The Taliban have announced they will reopen schools and universities to women. A success for more social participation? Not really, argues Mina Jawad. She finds their decision rather rejects women´s complex realities in Afghanistan. This is the...
The regional and global effects of 9/11. Illustration: Maryna Natkhir
11.09.2021
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of September 11, dis:orient spoke with Masood Raja, U.S.-Pakistani professor of postcolonial studies, about the (new) War on Terror, the Taliban and the future of Afghanistan. Prof. Raja, today is the 20th...
Afghanistan solidarity demonstration in front of the German Chancellery in Berlin on 22.08.2021. Picture: Anna-Theresa Bachmann
22.08.2021
The Taliban are back. International troops have left, and the people are facing a new dangerous political reality in Afghanistan. dis:orient spoke with two activists stuck in Kabul. In February 2020, a so-called peace treaty was signed between the...
At the end of July, the Tunisian President Kais Saied suspended parliament. Photo: European Union
18.08.2021
Since the end of July 2021, the Tunisian President Kais Saied has been in power by means of an emergency ordinance. In the interview with dis:orient, Ahmed Bedoui from the Tunisian NGO IWatch assesses the political situation in the country. On July...
Protest against PA in Bethlehem, source: dis:orient
05.07.2021
Since the end of June, Palestinians in the West Bank have been protesting their government. dis:orient spoke with an activist about the current protests. In the past few months, protests against the mass evictions in East Jerusalem have continued,...
Protester in Tunisia in January 2021. Photo: Ahmed Zarrouki
08.02.2021
Ten years after the Ben Ali Regime was overthrown, Tunisians are protesting again. They demand the end of corruption, the release of imprisoned demonstrators and, public freedom. In short: everything they fought for during the revolution of 2011...

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