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Contemporary political discourse
What can Europe learn from Arab philosophy?
Interview with Middle East expert Lara Friedman
"A kosher stamp for Israel to retain control over the West Bank"
U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
Slave to the Trumpian impulse
Interview with democracy activist Iyad el–Baghdadi
Jeff Bezos, blackmail and MbS
Counter-terrorist, terrorist – what's the difference?
YPG returnees under suspicion
India and big business
Complicit in Modiʹs Hindu nationalist agenda

Interview with a mixed-faith couple
Experiences in a Christian-Muslim marriage
Interview with Middle East expert Lara Friedman
"A kosher stamp for Israel to retain control over the West Bank"
Women and Islam
On Muslim women and the Islamic dress code
Child trafficking in Iran
The agony of the destitute
Jewish and Muslim mysticism
Jewish mystics on the Sufi path
U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
Slave to the Trumpian impulse

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
Turning away from Shia in Iran
''A Tsunami of Atheism''

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Lina Ben Mhenni, activist who chronicled Tunisia uprising, dies at 36
Poetry and rap highlight the rift over India's citizenship law
Seeds of hope: Young volunteers replant Tunisia forests
How the world is reacting to Trump's Middle East plan

Culture vultures: Tehran's galleries are very popular among Iranian young people and the cultural scene is constantly diversifying. According to a 25-year-old photographer, "government restrictions play an important role in this phenomenon. Art is seen as a means of emancipation"

Faces of Iranian youth

Behind a suffocating political system and inquisitive cliches, Iranian youth dream of a break with the system while proudly defending their culture. By Gwenvaël Engel

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