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Alice Schwarzer: "The Shock – New Year's Eve in Cologne"
Curious bedfellows
In her new book, Alice Schwarzer is the first to finger a definite culprit in the New Year's Eve incidents in Cologne: "sharia Islam". In her reasoning she adopts the same interpretation of the Koran favoured by Muslim extremists, while providing fodder for Islamophobic right-wing populists. By Khola Maryam Hubsch
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Refugees in Germany
Working through the trauma
Refugee children have often experienced terrible things. By reading aloud to them, volunteers give them time out from the stresses of their everyday lives. A specially designed trauma picture book helps children and parents to better come to terms with their experiences. By Gunda Achterhold
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Islam in Germany
"Democracy and human rights are just hollow words"
What are our values and how can we communicate them to the refugees? Markus Mayr interviews the Islam scholar Schirin Amir-Moazami
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Egypt's people-smuggling mafia
Where crossings cost but lives are cheap
Borg Meghezel looks like a perfectly normal Egyptian fishing village. But almost all its inhabitants earn their living through people-smuggling. An exclusive report by Karim El-Gawhary
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Interview with Andre Bank, political scientist
"The refugees are part of Jordanian politics"
As conflicts continue to escalate in the region, Jordan remains stable. In fact, the kingdom is actually profiting from the chaos and the refugees, says political scientist Andre Bank in conversation with Jannis Hagmann
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Interview with Navid Kermani
Solidarity, liberty, openness
German-Iranian writer and Islamic studies expert Navid Kermani, who was awarded the German Book Trade′s Peace Prize in Oktober 2015 is one of Germany's most compelling thinkers. In an interview with Catherine Newmark, he speaks about literature und politics, the threat to freedom and the future of Europe
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Arabic literature as a cultural asset
Uncharted waters
Many Arab civil war refugees have been forced to abandon prosperous lives in a homeland destroyed by war in order to reach the safety of Europe. But traumatic experiences are not all they bring with them; there is also a wealth of literature which is still unknown to many of us. By Melanie Christina Mohr
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Liz Clegg: the Jungle's surrogate mum
Liz Clegg has been working as a volunteer in the Calais "Jungle" camp since summer 2015. She turned up with a lorry-load of tents and wellies which she proceeded to distribute to the refugees. Since then, she has become something of a surrogate mother to the many unaccompanied minors who turn up in the camp
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Refugees in Germany
Hanging in the balance
Aged just 14 when he left his native country of Afghanistan, Emdadullah Mohammand spent nine months on the road in his quest to reach Europe. Four and a half years later, however, his asylum status remains unclear. By Esther Felden
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AfD and its historical antecedents
Whose struggle is it anyway?
The call by the AfD for a ban on Muslims being able to practise their faith freely and publicly is an attack on the German constitutional right to freedom of religious expression. If people start calling for minarets to be erased from public life, then it is not unreasonable to expect that one day, those minarets will burn, says Stefan Buchen
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"Harry's Last Stand" - one veteran's plea
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"Aleppo Evil" spreading in Syria
A plague of parasites
The "Aleppo Evil" is spreading rapidly in Syria – an infectious disease spread by sandflies, insects for which the rubble of destroyed cities offers the perfect breeding ground. And once again, the West is looking the other way. By Stefan Buchen