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The illuminated tomb of Shah Jamal in Lahore (photo: Marian Brehmer)

Islam in Pakistan

The land of the Sufis

No country in the Islamic world is influenced as strongly by the traditions of Sufi culture as Pakistan. Yet the Sufis there have been under attack from Islamic hardliners for years. By Marian BrehmerMore

The hidden treasures of Sufism: In the footsteps of RumiWomen and Islamic studies: Annemarie Schimmel’s pioneering take on Islam Qantara dossier: Mysticism | Sufism
Still from "The Other Side of the River" (source: Antonia Kilian)

Documentary "The Other Side of the River

Women's liberation in a war zone

The documentary "The Other Side of the River" shows how women in the Kurdish regions of northern Syria fight for their rights under the most difficult conditions. By Aviva FreudmannMore

Kurdish autonomy in northeast Syria: Between Assad and ErdoganJoey Lawrenceʹs "We came from fire": A tribute to the KurdsFilmmaker Mariam Ghani: The power of propaganda
The beaches of the Maghreb countries are eroding faster than the rest of the world. So what is the solution? (photo: Getty Images)

Climate change in the MENA

Will North Africa's beaches disappear?

The southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea are losing sand faster than almost anywhere else. The ecological and economic damage is immense. The good news is, there are ways to cope. By Cathrin Schaer and Tarak GuizaniMore

Political scientist Tobias Zumbraegel: How are Middle East countries coping with climate change?Climate change consequences for the Islamic world: Of infernal proportionsClimate crisis and over-population: The Arab world has no answers
Istanbul view of the Hagia Sofia (photo: picture-alliance/dpa)

Istanbul in 24 hours

What's it like to live in a fractured city?

Turkey is so much more than its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Christiane Schloetzer has selected twenty-four of Istanbul's sixteen million inhabitants, creating a portrait of the Bosphorus metropolis based on their life stories. By Rainer HermannMore

Cat capital Istanbul: What to do about Turkey's strays? The Istanbul Canal project: Erdogan's dream, Istanbul's nightmareUrban renewal under Erdogan: Istanbul shantytown residents in limbo
Ruling BJP party rally in Kolkata, India (photo: picture-alliance)

Rahman Abbas' "Zindeeq"

Who's learning lessons from the Holocaust?

Set in a dystopian future, Rahman Abbas’ new novel “Zindeeq” draws on the Indian author’s worries about recent trends in his home country, where aggressive identity politics have been – and still are – gaining momentum. Almuth Degener read the bookMore

Novelist and activist Arundhati Roy: "We're up against a fascist regime in India"Interview with Indian author Rahman Abbas: The Nazis and India's Hindutva, united in hateInterview with writer Rahman Abbas: Overcoming Indiaʹs social divideDiscussion in Urdu on Rahman Abbas's book "Zindeeq"
Dervishes dancing during the 'sema' in Istanbul (photo: Marian Brehmer)

Islamic mysticism

Understanding the Sufis

To understand Islamic mysticism, we must first clear up a number of misconceptions, as Marian Brehmer writes in his essay – part 1 of a new series on SufismMore

The hidden treasures of Sufism: In the footsteps of RumiIslam in Pakistan: The land of the SufisJames Morris: Ibn Arabi's vision for a fully human global civilisationQantara dossier: Islamic mysticism | Sufism
Local tourists disembark from a Pakistani army helicopter after they were rescued from flood-hit tourist areas in the north (photo: Abdul MAJEED/AFP)

Lives swept away

Rescued tourists recount Pakistan flood horror

It was midnight when Yasmin and her family were ordered to urgently evacuate their room at the Honeymoon Hotel, perched above the picturesque ice-blue waters of the Swat river. Swapping the sticky Lahore summer for the cooler climes of the northeastern mountains last week, they became embroiled in one of Pakistan's worst disastersMore

Qantara photo essay: In Pakistan, a 'disaster of epic proportions'Islamic environmentalism: The call to eco-jihadTarik M. Quadir: "If we don’t pull together to save the earth, we will ‘sink’ together"
Ibn Rushd Prize for Religious Freedom 2022: winners Nayla Tabbara (Lebanon) and Saad Salloum (Iraq) (photo: ibn-rushd.org)

Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought

Ibn Rushd Prize 2022: Religious Freedom

This year's Ibn Rushd Prize, focusing on religious freedom, goes to Nayla Tabbara (Lebanon) and her organisation Adyan Foundation and Saad Salloum (Iraq) with his organisation Masarat.More

Iraqi expert Saad Salloum: Celebrating religious diversity in IraqLebanese thinker Martin Accad: "Lebanon's tragedy is political sectarianism"Authoritarianism and underdevelopment in the Islamic world: Islamic clerics and statesmen in an unholy alliance
Street scene in Kabul, pick-up in the centre transporting Taliban fighters (photo: picture-alliance)

One year of Taliban rule

How life has changed for Afghans

On 15 August 2021 the Taliban overthrew the government in Afghanistan and seized power. One year later, the country is facing multiple challenges that demand immediate global attention. Ahmad Hakimi reportsMore

'My heart and body shake': Afghan women defy TalibanAfghanistan's humanitarian crisis: End the economic blockadeAfghanistan: Emran Feroz' chronology of a disasterAfghanistan: A brief history of Afghan women's rights
Jahangir Alam and his wife Farida outside their slum dwelling in Dhaka, Bangladesh (photo: Dominik Muller)

Climate change in Bangladesh

The end of the line for climate migrants in Dhaka

Global warming is driving domestic migration in Bangladesh, which sits just above sea level. With a population of 160 million, it is the most densely populated nation in the world. Former fisherman Jahangir Alam, now a rickshaw driver in Dhaka, is one of a huge number of people who are fighting for their very existence. By Dominik MullerMore

Tarik M. Quadir: "If we don’t pull together to save the earth, we will ‘sink’ together"Climate change and the West′s energy policy: Robbing the poorWater shortage in the Maghreb: Morocco's thirst revolution and the luxury of watermelonsThe Stream: Could climate change force a billion people to move?
Islamic scholar Annemarie Schimmel (photo: Jürgen Eis/Imago)

Women and Islamic studies

Annemarie Schimmel’s pioneering take on Islam

This year Annemarie Schimmel, the great German scholar of Islamic studies, would have turned 100. Unique within the German and international academic community of her time, Schimmel’s pioneering work was characterised by a love of Islam. A tribute by Stefan WeidnerMore

10th anniversary of the death of Annemarie Schimmel: Searching for the inner life of IslamInterview with Angelika Neuwirth: "The claim that Islam lacks an Enlightenment is an age-old cliche"Qantara dossier: Mysticism | Sufism
Symbolic image: a hand holds a cotton boll against the sky (photo: China Photos/Getty Images)

Pakistan

Climate crisis impacts Pakistani cotton industry

Pakistan is one of the world’s five major cotton-growing countries. Production has, however, been dwindling in recent years. Global warming is one of the reasons. Experts are currently working on how to rise to the challenges. Imran Mukhtar reportsMore

Environmental protection in Islam: Patterning natureEnvironmental jihad: Can "green Islam" save Indonesia from climate collapse?Tarik M. Quadir: "If we don’t pull together to save the earth, we will ‘sink’ together"
23 March 2022: The first post-pandemic cruise ship to dock at La Goulette, Tunis, Tunisia (photo: Getty Images)

Tourism in North Africa

Tentative recovery, or too little, too late?

Tourists have been returning to Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco. But, given the global uncertainty caused by the Ukraine war, will the comeback be enough to save a struggling sector, revive lost jobs and avoid unrest? Cathrin Schaer and Mohammed Magdy reportMore

Coronavirus fallout: Tunisia post-lockdown – should we stay or should we go?COVID-19 fallout in Morocco: Tangiers' economic boom – few winners and many losersCOVID-19 on the Nile: The curse of coronavirus – Egypt, a nation gripped by fear
The headqaurters of the Pikala bicycle initiative in a disused waste-sorting facility on the edge of the Medina, Marrakesh, Morocco (photo: Marian Brehmer)

The Pikala Bikes initiative in Morocco

More mobility, more confidence, more freedom

In Morocco, the bicycle is considered a poor man's means of transport. What's more, cycling tends to be a male-only affair. The Pikala bike initiative in Marrakesh seeks to change all this. By Marian BrehmerMore

The Sufi Trail: Anatolia through the eyes of a pilgrimPhoto gallery: Moroccan kids get a taste of surfing freedomCOVID-19 fallout in Morocco: Tangiers' economic boom – few winners and many losersAlternative tourism in Tunisia: Off the beaten tourist trackFrom Syria to Innsbruck, cyclist makes remarkable journey
Police officers on patrol in Parliament Square after the Westminster Attack, March 2017 (photo: Reuters/N. Hall)

Rizwaan Sabir's "The Suspect"

Muslims post-9/11 subject to blanket targeting

"The Suspect" by criminology lecturer Rizwaan Sabir is the harrowing account of the author's own experiences at the hands of the UK's counterintelligence agencies. At the same time, the book is a carefully researched analysis of how the Muslim community was targeted by those supposedly working to protect society. Richard Marcus read the bookMore

Cameron's counter-extremism strategy: Cause for concern or necessary evil?Minister's letter to British Muslim leaders: A deficit of trustTerrorist attack in London: Keep calm and carry on
Symbolic image of an elderly woman in care (photo: picture-alliance/dpa)

Health and ageing

Middle East and North Africa unprepared for coming dementia epidemic

By 2050, the Middle East and North Africa could be dealing with many more elderly people suffering from dementia. A lack of facilities, specialists and local knowledge means the region is woefully underprepared. By Cathrin Schaer, Tarak Guizani and Mohammed MagdyMore

COVID-19 in the Middle East: Playing down pandemic death tollsHealth and immigration in Germany: Language barriers to psychotherapy for immigrantsCannabis and Islam? There is no one single answerTahar Ben Jelloun's "Yemma": "Not Crazy, Merely Gone Away"
The 3,400-year-old Bronze Age city in Iraq revealed by falling reservoir water levels (photo: Universities of Tübingen and Freiburg/KAO)

Archaeology in Iraq

Drought reveals Bronze Age city

Extreme drought in Iraq has given German and Kurdish archaeologists the unique chance to examine an ancient Bronze Age city that was hidden beneath the water of a reservoir for decades. Experts believe the ruins could be those of the ancient city of Zachiku. It was a race against the clock to complete work before the city was once again covered by the reservoir's rising water level. By Alexander FreundMore

Reconstruction in Iraq: Mosul's Old City rises from rubble in IraqGobekli Tepe: The Turkish hilltop where civilisation beganPhoto gallery: Spectacular finds in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of SaqqaraCultural heritage in Syria and Iraq: Casualties of war
The Israeli scientist Amos Goldberg (left) and the Palestinian scientist Bashir Bashir (right) (photo: www.ushmm.org/BUME)

Middle East conflict

Shoah and Nakba – two interlinked catastrophes

Asked about the Shoah, Palestinians often bring up the Nakba, the displacement of Palestinians associated with the founding of the state of Israel. An Israeli Holocaust researcher and a Palestinian political scientist have developed a concept aimed at promoting dialogue about these two interlinked national traumas. By Joseph CroitoruMore

Middle East conflict: "Palestinian refugees have a right to the truth"The Palestinian Nakba of 1948: An objective delineation of eventsIsraeli magazine on Palestinian trauma: The Nakba in Hebrew"The Arabs and the Holocaust": War of narratives
A traditional Indian wedding in New Delhi (photo: Altai Qadri/AP/picture alliance)

Matchmaking among Indians

Why do Indian expats in Europe still seek an arranged marriage?

Arranged marriages have been the norm in India for centuries. Now online dating sites, the "marriage market" and changing social norms have seen matchmaking services evolve – especially for Indian expats in Europe. By Shabnam SuritaMore

The "India Love Project" on Instagram: Fighting hate with loveMuslim marriage, Muslim divorce – and the wider family: "Problems are often dealt with collectively"Marital traditions in the Islamic world: Marriage first, love later?
Bicycle parked along a track on the Sufi Trail (photo: Marian Brehmer)

The Sufi Trail

Anatolia through the eyes of a pilgrim

The Sufi Trail is a long-distance hiking route from Istanbul to Konya that seeks to revive the ancient tracks used by foot pilgrims on their way to Mecca. Marian Brehmer spoke to the trail's founder and hiking route developer Sedat CakirMore

Interview with Islamic scholar and philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush: "The Sufis were prophets of pluralism"Album review: Trygve Seim′s "Rumi Songs"The filming of Rumi: Everybody's darling"This Pale" – Rumi set to music: A celebration of the complexity of love

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Egypt’s female social media influencers face arrest

A screenshot from Salma Elshimy's Instagram account featuring photos of the Egyptian model and influencer (© almaelshimy, Instagram)

Charged with "inciting debauchery" and "violating family values": Last week, Egyptian TikTok celebrity Salma Elshimy became the latest in a growing list of women to fall foul of the Egyptian authorities over social media postsMore

The big history of Albania's tiny Koran

The Prushi family have been guardians of the Koran for generations The Prushi family have been guardians of the Koran for generations (image: Adnan Beci/AFP)

For generations, this postage stamp-sized book has been passed down through one family -- surviving wars and one of the world's most fanatical "godless regimes".More

Iran's revolutionary feminist backlash

Demonstrators protest in solidarity in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (photo: DW)

Controlling women's bodies has been a pillar of the Islamic Republic from its inception, writes Nader Hashemi.More

Ramadan: Enlightenment and commerce

According to the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad received the Book's holy words in the month of Ramadan. During this month, Muslims are supposed to practice abstinence. Daily prayer is compulsory – even for travellers. Islamic prayer rooms have been set up in many international airports, like the one here in Amman. In Germany, you can find these rooms in the airports at Frankfurt, Munich and Dusseldorf

Ramadan: Enlightenment and commerce

Muslims all over the world are currently observing Ramadan. The month of fasting is supposed to be all about reflection, meditation and abstention - but Ramadan is becoming increasingly commercialised.

Islamic Republic facing a religious watershed

Symbolic image demonstrating frustration with Iran's religious leaders (photo: Getty Images/AFP)

Iranians do not want an Islam that interferes. They are fed up with a system that manipulates people with simple promises of salvation and anti-Western propaganda. Islamic theologian Hamideh Mohagheghi sees Iran at a religious crossroadsMore

The rise and rise of Muslim influencers

Female influencer wearing headphones using digital tablet while vlogging at cafe (photo: Jose Carlos Ichiro/Westend61/imago images)

In recent decades, Muslim piety has gone through a number of qualitative transformations, the most prominent of which is the emerging phenomenon of "Islamic influencers", which represents a new type of Islamic religiousness that combines globalisation and the values of Western modernity and is easy and effortless. By Ahmad Saif al-NasrMore

UN urged to reject anti-Semitism definition over ‘misuse’ to shield Israel

Blue United Nations flag fluttering in the wind (image: DW/F. Goerner)

More than 100 Israeli and international civil society organisations have asked the United Nations to reject the controversial IHRA anti-Semitism definition, warning it is being "misused" to protect Israel from legitimate criticism.More

India's predicted urban boom

Mumbai, one of India's biggest cities, grew by about eight million people in the past 30 years -- equivalent to the entirety of New York City's population (photo: Punit PARANJPE/AFP)

India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher stillMore

Pakistan feels economic shockwaves

Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif addresses a National Assembly session in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 11 April 2022 (photo: National Assembly of Pakistan/AP/picture-alliance)

While many countries are dependent on Ukrainian or Russian wheat or foreign energy imports, Pakistan requires both. For this reason, the country has been hit particularly badly by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Serious reform is needed, but is it too late for Pakistan's new PM, Shehbaz Sharif (pictured above), to deliver? According to Michael Rubin, Pakistan faces collapse, and the world should be worried.More

APPLY NOW: Germany's IPS Programme for Arabs 2023

The International Parliamentary Scholarship Programme for Arab (IPS) countries offered by the German Bundestag (closing date 15 December 2022) affords young and talented Arab graduates the opportunity to get to know the German parliamentary system.More

Promoting human rights in the Middle East and North Africa

A woman bashes pan lids together during an anti-government demonstration in Algeria (photo: Getty Images/AFP/R. Kramdi)

With authoritarianism once more gaining ground in the Middle East and North Africa, the European Council on Foreign Relations explores how European diplomats can be more effective in promoting human rights and democratic values in the regionMore

World Refugee Day: UNHCR's "The Colour of Flight"

1974: Greek Cypriot children in a refugee camp in Strovolos, a municipality of Nicosia, which at the time had a population of around 1,600 (photo: Jean Mohr; colourised by Marina Amaral)

For "The Colour of Flight", UNHCR collaborated with Brazilian artist Marina Amaral, 30, who specialises in colouring archival images. Building a bridge between past and present, she breathes life into images of the displaced.More

Weathering sandstorms, Iraqis grit their teeth

People ride during a sandstorm in the town of Khalis in Iraq's Diyala province on 3 July (photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)

Another sandstorm has darkened Iraqi skies and it's hard to breathe, but Baghdad motorcycle delivery rider Milad Mitti doesn't have the luxury of missing a day's work. Like most people in the now blistering hot desert country, the 30-year-old battles on in frustration, wearing goggles and a grey neck warmer over his mouth and nose "so I can breatheMore

Amnesty International Report 2021/22

Amnesty International 2021/2022 annual report (source: amnesty.org)

The Amnesty International Report 2021/22 highlights the human rights situation in 154 countries in 2021. From a human rights perspective, 2021 was largely a story of betrayal and hypocrisy in the corridors of power.More

R.I.P. Abraham B. Yehoshua: "Championing peace and justice"

Israeli author and peace activist A. B. Yehoshua, 1936-2022 (photo: picture-alliance/dpa)

A.B. Yehoshua, a prominent Israeli author celebrated for his mastery of the Hebrew language and a leading peace activist, died last week. He was 85.More

Saudi women move from behind wheel to under the hood

Ghada Ahmed (r) works on a car in Saudi Arabia, where garages are tapping women as a source for mechanics (photo: Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

An auto repair garage in Saudi Arabia is turning to an untapped source for new car mechanics: Saudi women, who just four years ago weren't even allowed to driveMore

Ancient 'zar' ritual puts exorcism on stage

Umm Sameh peforms the music and dance ritual known as "zar", traditionally performed to ward off or exorcise jinn or evil spirits (photo: Khaled DESOUKI/AFP)

A stage, lights, a mesmerised audience: it looks like an Egyptian folkloric concert, but Umm Sameh is singing to heal the sick by driving out the demons that possess themMore

Ukraine: Seven of the country's most important mosques

Crimean Tatar men pray at a mosque in Bakhchysarai (photo: AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)

While Muslims make up a small proportion of the country's population, Islam has a history in Ukraine stretching back to at least the 14th centuryMore

Is Islam fundamentally incompatible with Britishness?

Tipu Sultan's last stand painting as depicted in Leicester Square. The canvas, which glorified Britishness, was followed by additional works focused on Britain vanquishing the figure of the Muslim (British Military Museum website)

Challenging Islamophobia involves rejecting the country's racist, post-colonial, politically constructed hierarchy, argues Ismail Patel.More

Summer on PBS: "The Great Muslim American Road Trip"

Mona Haydar and husband Sebastian Robins star in the PBS show “The Great Muslim American Road Trip,” which premieres in summer 2022 (photo: Adam McCall/PBS)

Their 'Ask a Muslim' project went viral. Now rapper-activist Mona Haydar and husband Sebastian Robins have a travel show about Islam in the United States.More

"Voices that matter": Intersectional analysis of Canadian Muslim women

Woman preparing lunches for the homeless in San Francisco (photo: Abdel Rahman Bassa)

The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) has released a report that found Muslim women experience poorer social and economic conditions compared to their non-Muslim counterparts, while others such as queer, disabled and Black Muslim women – along with newcomers and single mothers – experienced poorer outcomes still.More

Muslims and interfaith marriage

Bridal couple make hearts with hands (photo: Tú Anh/Pixabay/Creative Commons)

One out of five Muslims is in an interfaith relationship, surveys suggest. But few imams are willing to adapt the traditional Muslim wedding ceremony to their needs, couples say.More

"The invisible Muslim": On White privilege and Islam

Banner advertising Medina Tenour Whiteman's "The Invisible Muslim" (source: hurstpublishers.com)

"The Invisible Muslim" offers a topical read to better understand the anti-racism conversation raging across the world right now, as well as a case study of what it means to be a Muslim in the West in the 21st century.More

Bulgarian Pomaks keep traditional wedding rite alive

Bulgarian Pomak bride Nefie Eminkova in her wedding finery and special make-up (photo: Nikolay Doychinov/AFP)

A wedding extravaganza of bright colours, flowers, feasting and dancing, yet the bride, Nefie Eminkova, who comes from Bulgaria's Pomak – Muslim – minority, can see none of it. Her eyes must remain tightly closed until the imam gives his blessing.More

Berlin Mideast Podcast

Focus on the Middle East. Logo of the Berlin Mideast Podcast (photo:Konrad Adenauer Foundation)

Monthly German-language podcast series Berlin Mideast Podcast looks at the current situation and trends in the Middle East.More

Scotland's National Galleries to showcase portraits of its Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and Polish communities

Veiled woman (photo: Arpita Shah)

The National Galleries of Scotland has unveiled plans for a major show exploring the diverse communities and individuals who make up modern-day Scotland. Featuring the work of Arpita Shah, portraits of people from Scotland’s Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and Polish communities are to go on display alongside images of Scottish celebritiesMore

Qantara dossier: Islamophobia

Demonstration against the building of a mosque in Cologne (photo: picture-alliance/Ralph Goldmann)

Renowned journalists, Islamic scholars and authors shed light on the various facets of racist and Islamophobic violence in Western countries.More

Sands of time: a century of Egyptian photography – in pictures

Princess Fawzia of Egypt and Princess Nasl Shah of Turkey, at the Women’s Conference at the Dome Palace (photo: Mohamed El Ghazouly)

These images of everyone from presidents to paupers show the tourist’s view of Egypt that we know – and the backstreets we don’tMore

Europe rights body pulls pro-hijab campaign after French outcry

Colourful hijabs worn by Muslim women (photo: picture-alliance/dpa/F. Gentsch)

The pan European rights body the Council of Europe has pulled a campaign promoting diversity among women and their freedom to wear the Muslim headscarf after it sparked an outcry in fiercely secular France.More

Azerbaijan activists sound alarm over femicide wave

Dilara Bagiyeva, 41, a victim of domestic violence in Azerbaijan (photo by Tofik BABAYEV/AFP)

Activists in Azerbaijan have been urging the country's government to ratify the 2011 Istanbul Convention – a landmark international agreement aimed at preventing domestic violence – for years. Baku has yet to act, however. Meanwhile the number of women dying at the hands of their partners continues to riseMore

SWP dossier: Forced displacement and migration

Pin and thread sculpture of a map of the world (© pogonici/Shuttterstock)

Migration is on the increase worldwide. The causes are manifold. Ever more people are forcibly displaced by persecution, violent conflicts and human-rights violations. Read up on international cooperation in the areas of forced displacement and migration, on developments in Europe’s migrant and refugee policies, and on the migrant and refugee policies of individual states.More

Online education is the only hope for Afghan schoolgirl

Afghan primary school girls in a classroom in Kabul, 18 September 2021. Secondary schools for girls remain closed (photo: © via Reuters/WANA News Agency)

Denied access to school due to the Taliban's failure to reopen secondary schools for girls, one Afghan teenager has taken to the Internet to try to exercise her basic right to an education. But her self-driven online learning mission has not been easy.More

Washington Post: Mustafa Akyol argues for Islamic reform from within

Cover of Mustafa Akyol latest book; YouTube screenshot of Mustafa Akyol

A re-examination of authoritative sources based on reason is at the heart of Mustafa Akyol’s new book: “Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance”. Akyol’s work offers the reader a journey into largely forgotten but important theological debates that took place among Muslim scholars in the Middle Ages.More

FINO: Forum Islam and Middle East

Forum Islam and Middle East (FINO); Universty of Bern logo (source: https://www.fino.unibe.ch/)

The Forum Islam and Middle East (FINO) was established at the University of Berne in 2018 and sees itself as a transdisciplinary competence centre for documentation, knowledge transfer and academic services in the field of Islam and the Middle East (IME).More

Global Village Space: Pakistan, and why nations radicalise

Anti-French protest in Pakistan following the arrest of Saad Rizvi (photo: AFP)

Discussing Dr. Shoaib Pervez’s latest book "Radicalization in Pakistan: A Critical Perspective", Farah Adeed probes the origins of collective societal radicalisation in Pakistan.More