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Author: Judith Poppe

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Principal of Hope Flowers School Ibrahim Issa (photo: Mareike Lauken)

In profile: West Bank Hope Flowers School principal Ibrahim Issa

"We are educating for the well-being of humanity"

Ibrahim Issa runs an extraordinary school where he prepares Palestinian students for a future of peace. It isn't what he originally planned to do with his life, but as things turned out, Hope Flowers is exactly where he was needed. By Judith PoppeMore

Arabs and Jews in Israel: You can't tear us apartRabbi Arik Asherman of "Rabbis for Human Rights": A different way of understanding JudaismIn profile: Hagit Ofran of Peace Now: The Zionist still holding a candle for peace and equalityQantara dossier: Israeli-Palestinian dialogue
Hagit Ofran (photo: Mareike Lauken)

In profile: Hagit Ofran of Peace Now

The Zionist still holding a candle for peace and equality

Hagit Ofran documents settlement construction in the Palestinian territories and raises awareness of the issue in Israel in order to maintain the possibility of a two-state solution. She is also inspired by the legacy of her grandfather. By Judith PoppeMore

End of the Middle East two-state solution? Israeli highways – a fast track to West Bank annexationInterview with Ask Project initiator Corey Gil-Shuster: Ask Israelis, ask Palestinians – beyond black and whiteLand of wine and honey? Israeli settlers export to UAE, to Palestinian chagrinEuropean powers tell Israel to stop settlement expansion amid tension in Jerusalem
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    The Taliban cannot defeat women

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    We need to talk about abortion

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    What future without rain – or aid?

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    Is Egypt the 'new Lebanon'?

  2. Female scholars in Islam

    Unsung guardians of the 'true' tradition

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    Lifting the veil

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    There is no one single answer

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  • Power returns to Pakistan a day after massive outage

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Goodbye forever? A woman in a burka leaving a university in Kandahar province. She will not be allowed to return. In a government statement in mid-December 2022, the Islamist Taliban instructed all universities – private as well as public – in Afghanistan to ban women from attending. All female students were barred from universities with immediate effect

The Taliban's war on women

Since seizing power in mid-2021, the Taliban have continued to restrict the rights of Afghan women and girls. At the end of 2022, they banned women from attending higher education. By Nele Jensch

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