Writing on the city. Picture: CC 4.0 wikimedia/Arxe2014
21.05.2017
A movie screening about Iran, a talk about Hezbollah – Alsharq e.V. will host two events in Berlin in the end of May and beginning of June. Everybody is cordially invited!
Will Präsident bleiben und weiter Reden halten wie hier bei den Vereinten Nationen: Hassan Rohani. / Wants to remain president and deliver speeches to the United Nations like in this picture: Hassan Rohani. Photo: UN Photo/Loey Felipe/Flickr (cc-by-nc-nd-2.0)
Sufi Farhang
09.05.2017
Nachdem etliche Menschen für die anstehenden Präsidentschaftswahlen in Iran kandidiert hatten, lies der Wächterrat sechs Kandidaten zu. Dazu zählen der aktuelle Präsident, sein Vize sowie Teherans Bürgermeister. Sufi Farhang stellt zehn Tage vor den...
A day after his death, Kiarostami's portrait can be seen on Valiasr Street in Northern Teheran. Photo: Laura Overmeyer
12.09.2016
The acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami died on 4th of July and plunged his cinema lovers into gloom. His work is not summarized to cinema only but encompasses other areas of art such as photography, painting and literature.
Photo: Danae Panissie
23.07.2016
Contextualized within the discussion on authoritarian persistence in the Middle East, this article depicts the UAE’s disbursement of foreign aid to partner countries in the Middle East and Central Asia. It discusses the political rationality and...
Demonstration taking place in Aleppo a week ago. Photo: Abedalrazaq Zaqzoq
27.03.2016
Since the cease-fire agreement was settled between the Assad regime and oppositional groups a few weeks ago, civilians all over Syria have started to take to the streets again. They try to continue with what they had started five years ago: a...
A bulwark of terror: the 'Islamic State'. Photo: Voice of America (http://www.amerikaninsesi.com/content/suudi-arabistanda-93-isid-militani-tutuklandi/2739372.html, Public Domain)
27.01.2016
While the international community is focusing on possible negotiations for Syria in Geneva, the self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ keeps tightening its brutal grip on civilians. Syrian journalists have now documented the IS’s abusive prison system. By...
Der israelische Premierminister Netanjahu hielt am Dienstag eine Rede vor dem amerikanischen Kongress. Photo: Speaker John Boehner/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
05.03.2015
Für unsere Serie zu den anstehenden Parlamentswahlen in Israel kooperieren wir mit dem israelischen Blog +972 . In einem englischsprachigen Gastbeitrag schildert Noam Sheizaf, wie der amtierende Premier Netanjahu mit seiner Rede vor dem...
"Which Lebanon do you want?" Sign at a demonstration in Beirut for a more secular society, in 2010. Picture: Shakeeb al-Jabri/ Flickr. (CC BY-SA 2.0)
27.01.2014
These days, Lebanon has reached an apparent political dead-end. The government has resigned ten months ago, but a new one is not in sight. Decisions are blocked on all levels; inter-sectarian strifes seem to increase. With the war in neighbouring...
 A pro-democracy demonstration in the Bahraini capital Manama from the financial district to Pearl Roundabout in 2011. Photo: Mahmood Al-Yousif (CC)
03.12.2013
In 2011, heated protests at Manama’s Pearl Roundabout started calling for political change in Bahrain. The rulers responded in part with force, in part with promises for reform. Almost two years later, repression has tightened, while reforms stall...
Logo der Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Foto: flickr/pockets23
19.07.2013
Where is the Palestinian Left in the ongoing debate about the future of the country? In the fourth installment of our series on Palestinian politics, Nassar Ibrahim analyses the role of the various factions - and explains, why they have to grisp...
Verehrung Yasins und Rantisi bei einer Hamas-Wahlkampfveranstaltung in Ramallah. Foto: Wikimedia/Hoheit
05.07.2013
Alsharq gives young Palestinians the opportunity to argue which party they would support if there were elections to be held in Palestine. The opinions voiced do by no means express the views of the Alsharq-Team. Today, Mohammed Ayoub Najjar explains...
Büro der Fatah bei Ramallah. Foto: Flickr/Michael.Loadenthal
28.06.2013
Alsharq veröffentlicht in einer Sonderreihe junge Perspektiven zu politischen Kräften in Palästina. Wenn morgen Wahlen wären, welche Partei sollte man wählen? Teil I: die Fatah. In Palästina lahmt der parlamentarische Prozess seit dem Wahlsieg der...

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