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1 week ago | 
qantara.de | Hannah El-Hitami |Amro Ali |Stefan Weidner |Claudia Mende
Weapons exports to Israel · 09.05.2025 Germany remains one of Israel's top arms suppliers, a situation likely to persist under Friedrich Merz. According to Lilian Löwenbrück from the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, politicians and manufacturers could face charges for complicity in crimes against international law. https://qantara.de/en/node/44376 Print Qantara: How significant is Germany's role in arming Israel?
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Daniel Bax |Claudia Mende |Florian Keisinger |Charlotte Wiedemann
German policy in the Middle East · 09.10.2024 Germany has isolated itself worldwide with its stance towards Israel. The current coalition will soon be a thing of the past, but Germany may reap the consequences of its foreign policy failures for a long time to come. https://qantara.de/en/node/44183 Print The brutal attack by Hamas and other groups on 7 October 2023 was a watershed moment—for Germany too.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Rashid I. Khalidi |Stefan Buchen |Claudia Mende |Hanno Hauenstein
+972 editor-in-chief Ghousoon Bisharat · 09.09.2024 Since the Hamas attacks on 7 October, the Israeli-Palestinian platform +972 Magazine has published a range of impactful investigations. Its Palestinian editor-in-chief Ghousoon Bisharat discusses the challenges independent journalism faces in Israel and Palestine. https://qantara.de/en/node/44148 Print +972 Magazine has published several important investigations into Israel's war on Gaza.
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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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Mar 23, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Hannah El-Hitami |Fakhri Saleh |Claudia Mende
The story of a young artist in Gaza · 23.03.2024 Drawing on the walls of buildings in the Gaza Strip is a way for 21-year-old artist Menna Hamouda to express the trauma inflicted by five months of pain and destruction https://qantara.de/en/node/43673 Print The portraits drawn on the walls of buildings in the Gaza strip by the young Palestinian artist Menna Hamouda are bleak: screaming women with children wrapped in shrouds, emaciated faces where it's unclear if the people are still alive or...
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Claudia Mende |Aram Ekin Duran |Mathias Rohe |Lucy James
Imams from Germany · 28.03.2024 Ender Çetin is one of the first imams to have been trained in Germany. Are these imams the bridge-builders Germany needs right now? https://qantara.de/en/node/43644 Print In Christianity, the Church lays out clear, but sometimes inflexible rules. In Islam – and in particular Sunni Islam – there is no such central authority. And so, the first port of call for Muslims who have questions or doubts of any kind is their local imam.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Stefan Weidner |Joseph Croitoru |Claudia Mende |Rabah Arezki
Contemporary Art Biennale in Riyadh · 06.03.2024 For the second time, a biennale for contemporary art is taking place in Riyadh. It stands for Saudi Arabia's new policy of opening up and focuses on the theme of nature and environment. A report from Riyadh https://qantara.de/en/node/43586 Print "After Rain" is the title of the second Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, which runs from 19 February to 24 May in the Riyadh suburb of Diriyah.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Ceyda Nurtsch |Claudia Mende |Jennifer Holleis |Tarak Guizani
German demonstrations against right-wing extremism · 24.01.2024 Ever since the AfD's plans to deport immigrants were publicised, hundreds of thousands of people across Germany have taken to the streets in protest https://qantara.de/en/node/43329 Print The silent majority has awoken. The exposure of the AfD's deportation agenda by Correctiv has driven outraged people onto the streets.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
qantara.de | Shady Lewis Botros |René Wildangel |Claudia Mende
Cinema showcase in Morocco · 04.12.2023 Female filmmakers from across the Middle East are increasingly being recognised and celebrated. But the challenges they face are not always what you might expect https://qantara.de/en/node/42994 Print The mood at last week's Marrakesh International Film Festival may have been slightly subdued.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
en.qantara.de | Claudia Mende
In March 2023, a synagogue was consecrated in Abu Dhabi – the first Jewish house of prayer to be built in the region for a hundred years. It is situated in an interfaith complex called Abrahamic Family House, which aims to present the Emirates as a tolerant, open country. Claudia Mende visited the centreThe Abrahamic Family House shines white against a cloudless blue sky.
