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1 month ago | 
qantara.de | Mohammed Magdy |Jannis Hagmann |Elias Khoury |Hannah El-Hitami
Filmmaker Monika Borgmann · 20.05.2025 Monika Borgmann has spent decades documenting Lebanese and Syrian prison systems. Her 2016 film "Tadmor" found new resonance after Assad's fall. She discusses Syria's future and her fight for justice after the murder of her husband, activist Lokman Slim.
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1 month ago | 
qantara.de | Ramzy Baroud |Jannis Hagmann |Charlotte Wiedemann |Claudia Mende
Journalists in Gaza · 16.05.2025 A new cohort of young Palestinian journalists has emerged in Gaza, reshaping the narrative and exposing the failures of Western media. This influence has come at a cost: 232 journalists have been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023. https://qantara.de/en/node/44385 Print Al-Muthaqaf al-Mushtabik, an Arabic term meaning "engaged intellectual", has garnered resonance within intellectual circles in Palestine, Lebanon and beyond.
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1 month 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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Feb 26, 2025 | 
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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Apr 29, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Richard Marcus |Jannis Hagmann |Joseph Mayton
Iraq’s parliament passed a bill on Saturday criminalising same-sex relations, which will receive a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, in a move rights groups condemned as an “attack on human rights”. Transgender people will be sentenced to three years in jail under the amendments to a 1988 anti-prostitution law, which were adopted during a session attended by 170 out of 329 lawmakers.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Jan Altaner |Joseph Croitoru |Jannis Hagmann |Emran Feroz
Middle East conflict · 24.04.2024 "Against Erasure" documents the diversity of life in Palestine before the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948, building a solid foundation for sorely needed, well-grounded discourse on the Middle East https://qantara.de/en/node/43833 Print Decked out in their finery, fifty members of the al-Dajani family, among them many children, stand on the steps of their home, looking into the camera.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Karim Gawhary |Jannis Hagmann |René Wildangel |Christoph Hanelt
Prospects for peace in the Middle East · 14.03.2024 Without rights for the Palestinians, there can be neither security for Israelis nor stability in the Middle East. There are four possible future scenarios https://qantara.de/en/node/43630 Print In recent months, we have become inured to a dangerous escalation in the Middle East that goes far beyond Israel and the Gaza Strip.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Jannis Hagmann |Peter Philipp |Joseph Croitoru |Kerstsen Knipp
The UNRWA was founded in 1949, shortly after the onset of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It became operational in May 1950. The UN founded the agency to offer aid to the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled their homes during the 1948 conflict between five Arab states and the newly-created state of Israel. Some fled in anticipation of the war; others were forced to flee by groups fighting for Israel or after finding themselves caught in the crossfire.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
eurotopics.net | Gabriella Colarusso |Jannis Hagmann
Al-Arouri's killing is a sign that Israel is adopting a new strategy, The Irish Times explains: “Observers see signs of a shift in tactics, however, with a more focused, less indiscriminate bombing campaign, a response, they say, albeit one not acknowledged by the Israelis, to pressure from US president Joe Biden to take a more surgical approach to the war, using special forces to attack the leaders and infrastructure of Hamas.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
qantara.de | Shahid Javed Burki |Ali Sadrzadeh |Jannis Hagmann |Musa Bagrac
Sunnis and Shias in Islam · 30.12.2023 Toby Matthiesen's new book, "The Caliph and the Imam", explores both the origins of the Sunni-Shia divide, what the two branches of Islam have in common and how the split has shaped the Islamic world https://qantara.de/en/node/43120 Print The history of intra-Islamic relations is both complex and complicated, in particular relations between Sunnis and Shias. Why is that?
