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"Imagine" empowerment workshop participants join hands during the closing ceremony (image: High Atlas Foundation)

Empowering women

Transforming horizons in rural Morocco

Research conducted in Morocco reveals the positive community impact of sustainable agricultural initiatives when preceded by women's empowerment workshops, leading to participatory action, enhanced community well-being and decentralisation. By Yossef Ben-MeirMore

The High Atlas Foundation's pro-poor approach: Future-proofing MoroccoWomen's self-help project "Amal" in Morocco: The single mothers of MarrakeshWater shortage in the Maghreb: Morocco's thirst revolution and the luxury of watermelons
Protest in Istanbul against the oppression of the Uighurs in China (image: AFP/Getty Images)

In Istanbul, the last Uighur bookshops struggle to survive

Caught between a vindictive Chinese state and Turkish police, Uighur booksellers are trying to preserve their language and culture.More

Chinaʹs oppression of the Uighurs: Save our Turkic brothers, Mr. President!Human rights in China: Search tool offers Uighur diaspora harrowing insightsChinaʹs Muslim minority: "Re-educating" the Uighurs
Pakistani schoolchildren at the computer (image: Reuters/C. Firouz)

Education in Pakistan

Digital learning for more opportunity

Pakistan's struggle with underinvestment in education and digitisation has resulted in high illiteracy rates and systemic discrimination. While some positive examples can be found in institutions catering for persons with disabilities, the overall picture remains bleak. By Marva KhanMore

Pakistan turns 75: Islamabad has serious issues "Sufi Hotel" by Juergen Frembgen: Karachi's hidden underbellyIdentity politics: The pain of India's partition
Protests in Tel Aviv against the government's judicial reform (image: Corinna Kern/Reuters)

Israel writers protest

"They want control of our books"

Writers have barely been visible in the recent nationwide protests against the new Israeli government's reforms. Now, however, things have taken a dramatic turn. By Joseph CroitoruMore

Culture funding in Israel: Filmmakers fear censorship Israel's judicial reforms: Benjamin Netanyahu's autocratic turnViolence in Israel: Extremism is spreading
Udo Steinbach at an event in Cafe Shabander on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad (image: private)

Udo Steinbach on Europe and the Gulf

Let's have none of the old arrogance

Middle East expert Udo Steinbach has been advocating closer relations with the Gulf states for years. Genuine interest in regional development, however, needs to look beyond the stereotypes. Birgit Svensson spoke to him in BaghdadMore

FIFA World Cup: Qatar 2022 Qatar critics and their blind spotsQatar 2022 and the Arab world: 'It’s our World Cup'Germany and the Gulf: Balancing ethics and economics
Primary school students in a Kabul schoolyard (image: Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/AA/picture alliance)

Development aid

Despite the Taliban, Afghanistan deserves help

For the sake of the Afghan people, the international community needs to re-engage in development cooperation. The education sector would be an ideal entry point, argue Conrad Schetter and Katja MielkeMore

Women’s rights in Afghanistan: The Taliban cannot defeat womenAfghanistan under the Taliban: "Girls continue to attend our schools"Negotiating with the Taliban for girls′ education: Treading carefully
Online portal "Islamic Art", homepage, (source: National Museums in Berlin, Museum of Islamic Art)

Berlin Museum of Islamic Art

"Islamic Art” goes digital

The Berlin Museum of Islamic Art’s new online portal is the first digital platform in the German-speaking world to present Islamic cultures in an innovative and entertaining way. By Ceyda NurtschMore

No Europe without Islam: "Europe's history is rooted in migration"Europe's ''Judeo-Christian heritage'': The fiction that it always wasInterview with historian Michael Borgolte: "Islam was always part of Europe"
A Syrian boy in the Medyen refugee camp in Bar Elias Lebanon (image: DW/D.Hodali)

Syrian refugees in Lebanon

No education for this generation?

More than a decade since hundreds of thousands of Syrians fled into neighbouring Lebanon, the educational level of the younger generation is disastrously low and their future prospects correspondingly dim. By Mona NaggarMore

Lebanon's economic collapse: Staring into the abyssLebanon's chronic medicine shortage: Zero state support, much Lebanese solidaritySyrian refugees in Lebanon: More scared of starving than of coronavirus
Four labourers in high-visibility clothing work on the track in Tanzania (image: Xinhua/picture-alliance)

Construction and infrastructure

Turkey supplants China in East Africa

Uganda is abandoning its Chinese partners and turning to Turkey to build a new railway line that will connect to neighbouring Kenya. East Africa is keen on improving its railway network as part of a pan-African project. By Philipp Sandner, Emmanuel Lubega & Burak UnverenMore

Turkey-Africa summit: Erdogan scores "Made in Turkey" pointsAnkara’s Maghreb moment: Advancing Turkey's economic, energy, and military aimsAl Boraq, M6 and neo-liberalism: Morocco's fast-track development programme bypasses manyChina, the Arabs’ preferred partner? Mr. Xi goes to Riyadh
Fatima Haidari gives tours of her native Herat from her student flat in Milan, Italy (image: Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP)

Afghan diaspora

Refugee from Taliban offers virtual tours of homeland

Forced to flee by the Taliban, Fatima Haidari now offers virtual tours of Afghanistan from her new home in Italy – with the proceeds funding secret English classes for women thereMore

Women’s rights in Afghanistan: The Taliban cannot defeat womenAfghanistan under the Taliban: "Girls continue to attend our schools""Not our Islam!": German imams condemn ban on university education for Afghan women
The members of the Prussian Egyptian expedition atop the Pyramid of Cheops in October 1842 (image: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett)

Egypt expedition 1842

A Prussian tour to the land of the Pharaohs

One hundred and eighty years ago, the Prussian king sent a team of scientists to the Nile. The items they brought back were ground-breaking for the development of Egyptology, a science very much in its infancy at the time. An exhibition on Berlin’s Museum Island tells the storyMore

Hieroglyphs exhibition at the British Museum: Museums with guilt complexesThe West and the Middle East: Casting a long shadow – Napoleon's intervention in EgyptTreasures of the Ancient Middle East: Deciphering the first written languageQantara photo essay: Egypt's most famous revolutionary: Akhenaten
South Sudan's U20 football team (image: South Sudan Football Association/Facebook)

South Sudan

Through football, South Sudanese youth forge ahead

With the return of peace after a decade of war, South Sudan's youth national teams qualified for the country's first continental football championships. They are helping forge a stronger national identity and pride. By Lolade AdewuyiMore

Marwa Zein's "Khartoum Offside": Football, film and freedom in SudanMane, Salah and more – Six stars to watch at the Cup of NationsWomen’s football in Morocco: Jump-starting women's soccer in the Arab worldAfrica Cup of Nations in Egypt: Politics casts a long shadow
A group of women with raised hands and a placard at a demonstration in Kabul (image: Stringer/Reuters)

Women’s rights in Afghanistan

The Taliban cannot defeat women

Since returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have steadily eroded the rights and opportunities of women and girls, particularly their access to education. But Afghans are not taking the regime's draconian policies lying down – and nor should the rest of the world. By Gordon Brown & Yasmine SherifMore

Afghanistan under the Taliban: "Girls continue to attend our schools""Not our Islam!": German imams condemn ban on university education for Afghan women"Scheherazade's heirs": Keep writing! Literature from Afghanistan
In the foreground of the picture are purple saffron flowers. In the background walks a row of women carrying red baskets in their hands. All the women are wearing a pale blue uniform, red headscarves and mouthguards

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. More...More

Women’s rights: The Taliban cannot defeat womenAfghanistan under the Taliban: "Girls continue to attend our schools""Scheherazade's heirs": Keep writing! Literature from Afghanistan
Symbolic image: child marriage (image: Christoph Hardt/Future Image/Imago)

Forced marriage in Turkey

Turkish state fails child bride in sect marriage

All eyes in Turkey are on a court hearing scheduled for January 30 into a child abuse case that allegedly occurred with the knowledge of one of Istanbul's most powerful Islamic sects. The little girl was failed by the state not once, but several times. Ayse Karabat reportsMore

Turkey: AKP under scrutiny for ties to ultraconservative Islamic communityViolence against women: Femicide on the rise in TurkeyThe Istanbul Convention and women's protection: Bombing the heart of the family in Turkey?Women in Turkey: Trapped in the gender gap
A child looks up to the sky on a street full of rubble and destroyed buildings in Gaza (photo: Mahmoud Hams/Getty Images/picture alliance)

Palestinian writer Asmaa al-Atawna

"No stereotypical views of Arab women"

Asmaa al-Atawna's debut novel "Missing Picture" has been published in German translation (Keine Luft zum Atmen – Mein Weg in die Freiheit). In it, she describes life in Gaza from the perspective of a rebellious girl who is struggling to fit in at school and home. After fleeing to Europe, she also has to fight for her self-determination there too. Claudia Mende spoke to the authorMore

Adania Shibli's "Minor Detail": What is Palestinian literature exactly?Recreating Palestine in literature: A nation crafted from words"The Blue Between Sky and Water" by Susan Abulhawa: Love and suffering in Gaza

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