The 2018 documentary “Still Recording” tells the story of day-to-day survival during four years of siege in Eastern Ghouta, Syria. Alsharq and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung spoke with one of its directors, Saeed Al-Batal, about art in times of...
Since 2011, the European Union has intensified its cooperation with the countries of North Africa and West Asia on the issues of migration, economy and women’s rights, yet often in a self-serving manner that harms local progressive forces. This...
Chouf is a Tunisian NGO that advocates for women’s physical and sexual rights. In 2015, the organization launched the annual international feminist art festival Chouftouhonna in Tunis to promote awareness and visibility of intersectional feminist...
From September 28th until October 1st, Alsharq e.V. together with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung held an international conference "Connecting Resistances: Emancipatory Activism in West Asia, North Africa, and Germany" in Berlin. Anna-Theresa Bachmann and...
After decades of marginalization, many of Lebanon’s approximately 250,000 domestic workers are demanding an end to their exploitation and fighting back against racism. At the conference “Connecting Resistances – Emancipatory Activism in West Asia...
What's research got to do with authoritarian politics? Why are “innovative policy-approaches” so darn unpolitical? And what's the point of discussion after all? Inadvertently, a Winter School about transformative changes in the MENA-region gave...
How Egypt's authorities tried everything to raise the turnout at the presidential elections.
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With Al-Sisi left to ‘compete’ against one of his supporters, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, the real...
First it seemed as if Al-Sisi would have to run alone in the elections. Now one of his biggest supporters is competing against him.
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As serious rivals of Al-Sisi started vanishing from the race one...
Egypt is to vote for a president starting this Monday. But all serious opposition candidates have quit the race way before it started, some under suspicious circumstances.
The Egyptian presidential race caused lots of controversies before it...
