At the end of July, the Tunisian President Kais Saied suspended parliament. Photo: European Union
18.08.2021
Since the end of July 2021, the Tunisian President Kais Saied has been in power by means of an emergency ordinance. In the interview with dis:orient, Ahmed Bedoui from the Tunisian NGO IWatch assesses the political situation in the country. On July...
Protest against PA in Bethlehem, source: dis:orient
05.07.2021
Since the end of June, Palestinians in the West Bank have been protesting their government. dis:orient spoke with an activist about the current protests. In the past few months, protests against the mass evictions in East Jerusalem have continued,...
Protester in Tunisia in January 2021. Photo: Ahmed Zarrouki
08.02.2021
Ten years after the Ben Ali Regime was overthrown, Tunisians are protesting again. They demand the end of corruption, the release of imprisoned demonstrators and, public freedom. In short: everything they fought for during the revolution of 2011...
Graffiti of murdered poet and activist Shaima al-Sabbagh (1984-2015), Prenzlauer Berg Berlin, Photo: Al Salem
25.01.2021
On January 25th, 2011 protests broke out in Cairo that led to the toppling of then president Hosni Mubarak and that wrote history as part of the Arab Sping. A founding member of Nawara on the commemoration ten years later in exile. The article...
South Campus, Boğaziçi University. Source: Albert Rein https://www.instagram.com/albert.rein/
21.01.2021
After AKP appointed a new rector at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University, protests organized by students and staff continue as they call for a democratic process. Dis:orient spoke to a student collective and one of the professors involved. After the...
January 4th 2021: A university in handcuffs. Source: 100sene100nesne https://twitter.com/100sene100nesne/status/1346526177809338371?s=20
13.01.2021
Following the appointment of Melih Bulu as rector of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, protests have erupted on campus. Bediz Yılmaz sheds light on the ongoing fight for academic freedom in which the current events represent a decisive moment....
German politicians would rather put lives at risk, Udi Raz argues, than to give up their privileges.Photo: Pixabay.
Udi Raz
10.12.2020
Despite high coronavirus infection rates, German politicians do their best so that families will be able to celebrate Christmas. In this article Udi Raz explains, why this stands exemplary for a German tradition of exclusion. At the beginning of...
Credit: Vanessa Barisch
28.10.2020
Following the 2011 revolution, Tunisia became a democracy. Despite their varying intervening distances to their country of origin, members of the Tunisian diaspora play an important role in Tunisia’s democratic process. “We are all participants...
Call for Artists Flyer
05.10.2020
*DEADLINE EXTENDED*   ***Deutsche Version unten*** Ten years after the self-immolation of Mohammad Bouazizi, dis:orient e.V. is planning a small exhibition for the anniversary of this beginning – a revolutionary process that has been...

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