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Traditional Palestinian "tatreez" (photo: Fatima Abbadi)

Traditional Palestinian "tatreez"

Sewing with a message

Once practiced by village women across Palestine, "tatreez" has become a symbol of women's resistance, identity and heritage. However, as Abbadi points out in an interview with Jan Tomes, this unique piece of Palestinian cultural heritage is now in danger of dying outMore

Protest and culture in Palestine: Make art, not warMohammad Sabaaneh′s "White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine": Punching through the glassInterview with Palestinian poet and artist Farid Bitar: ″I must either be the voice of sanity or justice″
Art installation by Nilbar Gures: shoe, rose and dildo (photo: CHROMA Istanbul)

Gay artists revisit Berlin-Istanbul relations

Queer forms migrate

While heightened political tensions between Turkey and Europe grab the world's attention, an exhibition at Berlin's Schwules Museum refreshingly highlights the gay community's links to Istanbul. Report by Jan TomesMore

Gay rights: Being Turkish and gay in GermanyLGBT asylum seekers: A silent revolutionInterview with the South African imam Muhsin Hendricks: "Islam does give us leeway to think"

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Most Recent Photo Essay

People of many faiths: a Catholic priest is flanked by a representative of the Ganesh Temple Sri Manicka Vinayakar Alayam and a monk of the Fo Guang Shan Temple during the "Nuit Sacree"

France's "sacred night" of religions

For the past four years, the parish of Saint Merry in Paris has organised a "Nuit Sacree" over the Pentecost weekend during which Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus pray and sing to God. The goal is to create and foster dialogue between the communities. By Jan Schmidt-Whitley