Mohamed Boumaiza at the Tunisian book fair 2025 talking to a customer. Photo: private.
13.11.2025
The internet age and rising inflation aren’t slowing Tunisia’s reading culture, but rather propelling reading habits. Mohamed Boumaiza, founder of Ktebi Ktebek, explains how his online bookstore is adapting to these changes. Diesen Artikel gibt es...
Protesters in the streets of Morocco. Picture: Mosaab Elshamy.
20.10.2025
The Moroccan Gen Z 212-movement protests to demand urgent healthcare reforms, criticizing the government for prioritizing World Cup spending instead. Peaceful demonstrations have now escalated into deadly clashes in the streets. Diesen Artikel gibt...
People are gathering at the port of Sido Bou Said in Tunis. Foto: Fatma Ben Fraj.
02.10.2025
On the 7th of September 2025, the usually calm atmosphere of Sidi Bou Said marina in the Tunisian capital Tunis is changing its scenery. Crowds coming from all regions of Tunisia are flocking to welcome the Global Sumud Flotilla arriving from Spain...
Photo: olleaugust, Pixabay
18.09.2025
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights accuses the EU of co-perpetrating crimes against humanity in Libya. Jake Soria from ECCHR reports migrants' situation in Libya and explains how the EU is implementing its border policy. Frontex...
Port of Nouadhibou with the Flag of Mauritania. Photo: Frida Nsonde, 2025
08.09.2025
Mauritania has intensified deportations of West African migrants while increasing discrimination and policing against Black Mauritanians. Anthropologist Elhadj Ould Brahim explores the social exclusion and inequality behind these actions. Since...
The war in Sudan affects the surrounding countries of the Sahel region, for which the country is an important cultural and economic centre. Today, Chad is struggling with armed war returnees, social tensions and restricted trade routes. Like most...
Protesters remember in Idlib governorate. Photo: Ahmed Akacha (Pexels). 2021
Hannah El-Hitami
11.07.2025
In post-Assad Syria, the “truth tents” offer a space for victims’ families to discuss truth and justice efforts. Lest hier das Interview auf deutsch:  Wahrheitszelte: „Über das sprechen, was Syrer:innen jetzt brauchen“ Jad al-Hamada is the nephew of...
Located in western Gaza, Al-Shifa Hospital included a dialysis unit. Like many medical facilities in the Gaza Strip, it has been bombed multiple times since the start of the war.” Photo: Jaber Jehad Badwan (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
04.07.2025
As a young physician in the Strip, Amro Hamada studies patients with end-stage kidney disease. Cut off from the care they need, many of them are silently dying. Getting sick in Gaza means entering a system that is itself on life support. To see a...
The Islamic University of Gaza destroyed during Isreal's war on Gaza. Photo: Shadi al Tabatiby (private). 2024
01.07.2025
Israel's systematic destruction of Gaza's educational infrastructure reflects a broader effort to dismantle the very foundations of its future. Palestinian media scholar Dr. Wesam Amer explains how this amounts to scholasticide. Lest hier das...

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