A Palestinian and an Israeli flag. Image: Yellowblood/Wikicommons (Public Doma Quelle: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Israel_Palestine_Flag.png)
03.12.2018
To this date, the Oslo Accords of 1993-1995 and follow-up agreements between different Israeli governments and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) dominate the reality in the Palestinian Territories as well as Israeli-Palestinian...
Saeed Al-Batal in Duma, Photo: Sam Lenses
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...
Stormy Times: both in international politics as well as at the beaches of the Mediterranean. Photo: Anna-Theresa Bachmann
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...
Performance at Chouftouhonna-Festival in Tunis, September 2018. Credits: Maison de l'image
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...
photo: The Alliance of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, https://www.facebook.com/TheAllianceOfMDWsLeb/
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...
Scenes from academia in 1350 - and today? Picture: Wikicommons/Public Domain
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...
He might look like a winner, but not all is gold that shines for Egypt's president. Photo: Alsharq
B. Philipp
12.04.2018
How Egypt's authorities tried everything to raise the turnout at the presidential elections. Lesen Sie hier eine deutsche Version dieses Artikels. With Al-Sisi left to ‘compete’ against one of his supporters, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, the real...
B. Philipp
28.03.2018
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. Find a German version of this article here. As serious rivals of Al-Sisi started vanishing from the race one...

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