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4 days ago | 
qantara.de | Tugrul Mende |Marcia Lynx Qualey |Andrea Backhaus |Jannis Hagmann
Egyptian author Youssef Rakha · 12.05.2025 Youssef Rakha revisits Egypt's 2011 uprising and its aftermath in "The Dissenters", the author's first novel written in English. The Arab Spring failed, he argues in this interview, because it was a neoliberal movement with no compelling vision for the future.
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1 month ago | 
qantara.de | Hannah El-Hitami |Andrea Backhaus |Julia Hahn |Anchal Vohra
Syria's missing detainees · 03.04.2025 The search for the missing is seen by many Syrians as crucial to rebuilding the nation. Mazin al-Balkhi of the International Commission on Missing Persons warns that the scale and arbitrary nature of the killings under Assad pose major challenges. https://qantara.de/en/node/44342 Print Between 130,000 and 200,000 Syrians are estimated to be missing. What happened to these people?
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
qantara.de | Andrea Backhaus |René Wildangel |Volker Kaminski
The search for Syria's missing · 23.01.2025 Since the fall of Assad, thousands of Syrians who have been searching for disappeared relatives have been left feeling abandoned by the new rulers. Meanwhile, the process of collecting evidence of the regime's crimes remains unsystematic. https://qantara.de/en/node/44276 Print When the dictator was gone, Samar Abd al-Majid felt hopeful. Perhaps, she thought, she could finally find Ahmed.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Doaa Shaheen |Hanno Hauenstein |Andrea Backhaus
Families in Gaza · 04.10.2024 One year on from the Hamas attack and the subsequent war, nine out of ten people in Gaza are internally displaced. Many couples and entire families have been torn apart by the Israeli offensive. Doaa Shaheen reports from the scene. https://qantara.de/en/node/44178 Print On the morning of 7 October, 45-year-old Iman Abu Hasira was making breakfast for her daughters. As always, they spent the morning together as a family.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
bylinetimes.com | Andrea Backhaus
Sign up to the Behind the Headlines newsletter (and get a free copy of Byline Times in the post)Mohamed Isbitah had only been at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip a few days when his pregnant wife, Hadeel, suddenly went into labour.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Charlotte Wiedemann |Karim Gawhary |Andrea Backhaus
Teenagers across the Gaza Strip should have been taking their final exams this month, a last hurdle before university and lifelong dreams, but the war in the Palestinian territory has crushed those hopes. According to the education ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, 85 percent of educational facilities in the territory are out of service because of the war.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Stefan Buchen |Andrea Backhaus |Marian Brehmer |Charlotte Wiedemann
War in Gaza · 18.06.2024 A racist view of Palestinian children contributes to an acceptance of the fact that they are dying in their thousands in Gaza https://qantara.de/en/node/44068 Print It was a sombre, quiet ceremony when the names of more than 10,000 children who were killed in Gaza were read out in Berlin.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Andrea Backhaus |Kristin Helberg |Inge Günther
The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution supporting a ceasefire plan in Gaza, as Washington leads an intense diplomatic campaign to push Hamas to accept the proposalThe text – passed with 14 votes in favour and Russia abstaining – "welcomes" the truce and hostage release proposal announced on 31 May by President Joe Biden and urges "parties to fully implement its terms without delay and without condition".
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Andrea Backhaus |Kristin Helberg
Israel's dramatic weekend rescue of four hostages from the Gaza Strip, in an operation that local health officials say killed 274 Palestinians, came at a sensitive time in the 8-month-old war, as Israel and Hamas weigh a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire and the release of the remaining captives.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Andrea Backhaus |Kristin Helberg |Jan Altaner
For weeks after being sanctioned by the United States, Yinon Levi struggled to pay the bills, living at his farming outpost atop a hill in the occupied West Bank. But the Israeli settler's problems didn't last. When the banks froze his accounts, his community raised thousands of dollars for him, and Israel's finance minister vowed to intervene on the sanctioned settler's behalf. Two months after sanctions were issued, Levi was granted access to his money.
