By implanting metal detectors at the Temple Mount, Israel has triggered a crisis with international reverberations. Israel was demonstrating its power, not its sovereignty. An op-ed by Talia Sasson.
Talia Sasson is president of the foundation ...
Wael Alkak was born in 1982 in Jaramanah, a southern suburb of Damascus. In 2012, he moved to Paris and published his first album “Neshama – Songs belonging to the Syrian Revolution”. Five years later, we met with him to talk about “sha‘bī” music...
A movie screening about Iran, a talk about Hezbollah – Alsharq e.V. will host two events in Berlin in the end of May and beginning of June. Everybody is cordially invited!
Movie screening “Writing on the City”
31.05.2017, 7pm, co.up coworking...
In the midst of continuous regional turmoil, Jordanians will be heading to the polling stations on 20 September to cast their votes for the 18th national Parliament. Anja Wehler-Schoeck, Resident Director of the Amman Office of the Friedrich-Ebert...
The acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami died on 4th of July and plunged his cinema lovers into gloom. His work is not summarized to cinema only but encompasses other areas of art such as photography, painting and literature. By Maryam...
Stabbings, racism and the strengthening of right-wing forces: A climate of fear prevails in Israel, says former state attorney Talia Sasson. Why does the government intend to restrict civil society in this atmosphere?
Talia Sasson, born in 1951...
For being a small country, Lebanon has an amazing media landscape: Eight TV stations compete for a market of only four and a half million people. Nabil Dajani, professor at the American University of Beirut on how the media contribute to driving ...
These days, Lebanon has reached an apparent political dead-end. The government has resigned ten months ago, but a new one is not in sight. Decisions are blocked on all levels; inter-sectarian strifes seem to increase. With the war in neighbouring...
I am asking myself these days what children will be told in school about the ‘Arab Spring’ in ten to twenty years. What their textbooks will read like about the events that were triggered in 2011, when a young Tunisian man called Mohammed Bouazizi...