Author: Wolfgang Dick

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"Human Cargo" installation (photo: DW/W. Dick)

"Human Cargo" art project

Plumbing the depths of refugee pain

Can art help individuals process the experience of fleeing across the Mediterranean? Sponsored by Malteser International, the art project "Human Cargo" in Ahaus, Germany, is helping refugees come to terms with the horrors they experienced on their odyssey. By Wolfgang DickMore

Theatre and the refugees: Getting the ball rollingRefugees in Germany: Working through the traumaMigration from Africa: For a tough stance on migrant human rights
Kristin Helberg (photo: Jan Kulke/photoartberlin)

Kristin Helberg goes on record about the Syrian conflict

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″We need an alternative to Assad″

At the recent EU summit on refugees, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that she was willing to take part in talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with Wolfgang Dick, Middle East expert Kristin Helberg warns against misinterpretationMore

Civil war in Syria: First Assad, then "Islamic State"The civil war in Syria: When minorities become pawns in a power gameQantara.de's dossier on the Syrian Civil War
Young Palestinians and Israelis at the KfGD dialogue event in Bonn (photo: KfGD)

Israeli–Palestinian dialogue in Germany

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It is possible to work together

While bombs are being dropped and rockets fired back home, a group of young Israelis and Palestinians has come to Germany to talk to each other and to listen to the other side of the story. By Wolfgang DickMore

The Gaza conflict: Can art heal in a time of war?Interview with Yehuda Shaul: "The treatment of the Palestinians is the biggest threat to Israel"Interview with the Jewish author Judith Katzir: Friendship across the divide