Ahmed Shawky

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Muslims in Austria
October elections: Beware of Islamophobes
Interview with Bettina Marx, head of the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Ramallah
Hamas' olive branch: ″Palestinians want reconciliation″
Germany's general election
Calling all Muslim voters: ″Won′t vote″ won′t wash
Literature versus reality
Author Mansoura Ez-Eldin: Chasing fata morganas
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Securitising Turkish foreign policy: Turning back the clock
Economic Community of West African States
Morocco's grand plan: In pursuit of economic union

Hindus in Pakistan
"I want to preserve my Hindu bloodline in North Waziristan"
The headscarf in the colonial period
Remove your veils!
Germany's general election
Calling all Muslim voters: ″Won′t vote″ won′t wash
Interview with Bettina Marx, head of the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Ramallah
Hamas' olive branch: ″Palestinians want reconciliation″
The Decline of Islamic Scientific Thought
Don't Blame It on al-Ghazali
Middle East
Egypt′s Muslim Brotherhood: The seed of violence

The German Islam Scholar Lamya Kaddor
Why I as a Muslim Woman Don't Wear a Headscarf
Jordan and the influx of refugees
The true Samaritans
Muslims in Liberal Democracies
Why the West Fears Islam
The Decline of Islamic Scientific Thought
Don't Blame It on al-Ghazali
The Media and ''The Innocence of Muslims''
Against the Islamisation of Muslims
Junaid Jamshed
"I Was a Sinner for Years"

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Turkey vows to take "all measures" if Iraqi Kurdish referendum endangers security
Trump replaces travel ban with new restrictions
Iraqi Kurds vote in referendum on independence from Baghdad
Merkel faces tricky coalition talks, hard-right 'earthquake'

Part of the community: Sabriye Sinaic and her family work as farmers and labourers in their village and the surrounding area. She doesn′t know about her ancestry, but believes they came to Turkey from Damascus, Syria. Until the establishment of the Afro-Turk association she said, "I didn′t know there were others like us, then I saw there are many spread around"

Turkey′s African roots

They are descendants of Africans brought to the Ottoman Empire as slaves and domestic workers and said to number up to 100,000. Bradley Secker spent time with those identifying as Afro-Turks in western Turkey.

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