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1 month ago | 
qantara.de | Teseo La Marca |Ceyda Nurtsch |Joseph Croitoru |Christoph Strack
Muslims in Germany · 20.03.2025 Trust in politics has plummeted among German Muslims, as seen in recent voter turnout. While some online preachers argue voting is haram, imams in Berlin are actively campaigning for political participation. https://qantara.de/en/node/44322 Print Cold fluorescent light and DIY store chairs fill the carpeted room.
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2 months ago | 
qantara.de | Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Ceyda Nurtsch |Ali Sadrzadeh |Birgit Svensson
Women's rights in Syria · 06.03.2025 At the end of February, the highly anticipated National Dialogue Conference took place in Damascus. Did the meeting meet expectations? Karim El-Gawhary talked to women's rights activists on the ground before and after the event. https://qantara.de/en/node/44311 Print The small demonstration in front of the old Hejaz train station in the centre of Damascus seems a little lost.
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2 months ago | 
qantara.de | Jannis Hagmann |Ceyda Nurtsch |Gero Schliess |Sonja Hegasy
Musician Michael Barenboim on Gaza · 26.02.2025 Violinist Michael Barenboim, leader of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, calls for an arms embargo against Israel and argues that the German media has failed in its responsibilities. He tells Qantara how he balances art and activism. https://qantara.de/en/node/44290 Print Qantara: Does your political activism have a negative influence on your music? Michael Barenboim: You mean the quality of my playing?
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ceyda Nurtsch |Burak Ünveren |Burcu Karakas
Women's movements in Turkey · 10.06.2024 From the Kurdish women's movement to the labour movement and Muslim feminists: the German anthology "Women's Movements in Turkey" builds a bridge between activism and academia. A conversation with the editors Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca and Handan Caglayan https://qantara.de/en/node/44023 Print This book was preceded by a conference of the same name that you organised in 2021.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Gerrit Wustmann |Ulrich von Schwerin |Ceyda Nurtsch
Kuzey Topuz and "Der Freund" · 04.06.2024 In her debut novel, "Der Freund" (The Friend), Kuzey Topuz has created a complex weave of fragments and perspectives. The book is all about power and influence in interpersonal relations and at a societal level. It's a masterstroke https://qantara.de/en/node/44015 Print "This is a fantasy theory. This is a theory about fantasy".
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Mohamed Taifouri |Claudia Mende |Ceyda Nurtsch |Daniel Bax
Anti-terrorism prosecutors in Germany will take over the investigation into a knife attack in Mannheim that killed a police officer, a spokeswoman said on Monday. She said the office took on the case due to the "singular importance" of the attack, which sparked alarm in Germany. A 25-year-old Afghan is accused of attacking people with a knife at an anti-Islam rally in the western city of Mannheim. A police officer, 29, died on Sunday after being repeatedly stabbed during the attack.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Daniel Bax |Hans Dembowski |Ceyda Nurtsch |Dunja Ramadan
Palestinians in Germany · 01.06.2024 The German capital has attracted many Palestinian artists and intellectuals in recent years. Yet since the war in Gaza began, a sense of disillusionment has set in within the community https://qantara.de/en/node/43996 Print Yasmeen Daher receives visitors at her new offices, her colleagues sit at the desks.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
qantara.de | William Glucroft |Inge Günther |Ceyda Nurtsch |Hans Dembowski
The quagmire of historical responsibility · 01.06.2024 Assessing Israel more critically than other nations is considered anti-Semitic. Yet treating Israel more favourably is problematic too.
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May 28, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ceyda Nurtsch |Stefan Weidner |Claudia Mende
The coronavirus pandemic, the Hamas attack on Israel and the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip have led to an increase in public anti-Semitism in Germany in recent years, Germany's domestic intelligence service BfV wrote in a new report released on Monday. Anti-Semitism is an issue across ideological boundaries and in different scenes, the agency reported, but "the greatest anti-Semitic threat in Germany [remains] the intertwining of right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism".
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ceyda Nurtsch |Jannis Grimm |Kristin Helberg
“From the river to the sea” · 30.04.2024 The notion that the slogan is sweepingly anti-Semitic falls short of the mark. But extremist interpretations need to be condemned – on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides https://qantara.de/en/node/43854 Print In November 2023, the phrase "From the river to the sea" was defined in Germany as an identifier of Hamas, and was banned.
