News from the Middle East and North Africa often conveys the image of a troubled region characterised by political and economic volatility. But there are many more facets to life in this region than this image suggests, as shown by the projects the Goethe-Institut is running in the region. By Christina Büns Culture saved him…
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Video: A brighter future for Middle East youth
Published on Apr 26, 2013 In commemoration of Global Youth Service Day (#GYSD), Your Middle East highlights the positive outcomes of the Arab uprisings. VISIT: http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/hot-top… We have spoken to young people across the region who tell us how their lives have changed for the better. Many of them are challenging the status quo by…
Al Jazeera and Qatar Accessories of the Arab Spring – Qantara / Project Syndicate article
The Arab Spring, a true popular uprising against decades of corruption and repression, owed its astonishingly rapid spread not least to the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, says media analyst Khaled Hroub There’s a joke making the rounds in the Middle East these days: three of Egypt’s former presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar…
”The Term Islamist Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore” – Qantara, Deutsche Welle Interview with Ziad Majed
Not since 1989 has a whole region undergone democratic revolution, but what are the common denominators in the Arab Spring? Jefferson Chase asked Lebanese lecturer and activist Ziad Majed, and he gave some surprising answers We hear a lot about the relatively young age of populations in the countries that have overthrown rulers this year….
Interview with Sami Kilani: ”The Symbol of Resistance Is Not the Bullet!” – Qantara de Interview
The Deacon of the Faculty for Education at the An Najah University in Nablus, Sami Kilani, is among the most influential advocates of non-violence in the Arab world. He is optimistic that the peaceful form of protest conducted in Tunisia and Egypt is an example that will be followed in other Arab countries How do…
Introduction: Teaching the Middle East after the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions… Beyond Orientalism, Islamophobia, and Neoliberalism – by Jadaliyya Reports
[Participants during the conference. Photo by Bassam Haddad.] May 13-14, 2011, George Mason University “Teaching the Middle East after the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions…Beyond Orientalism, Islamophobia, and Liberalism,” a conference sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program and the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, and by the…
Three Powerfully Wrong–and Wrongly Powerful–American Narratives about the Arab Spring – Jadaliyya com article
Jillian Schwedler, Joshua Stacher, and Stacey Philbrick Yadav [Egyptian carrying sign in Tahrir. Image from Politirature.] The “Arab Spring” that actually began in the dead of winter has spread from Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria…and the year only half over. As the media, policymakers, and global audiences struggle to make sense of…
Friday Protests in the Arab World: More than Religious Symbolism – Qantara de
As the central rallying day of the week in ongoing Arab revolutions, Friday should not be reduced to its religious dimension and understood in a way that might give the uprisings an Islamic background, says the Libyan writer Mustafa Fetouri in this commentary Friday has become the most important weekday in the Arab world. Instead…
Hip-hop the soundtrack of the Arab spring? Listen to the Nomadic Wax radio show – CG News with link to Radio
Hip-hop the soundtrack of the Arab spring? by Rose Hackman Rose Hackman is a freelance journalist who lives in London and Washington, DC. This article was written as a result of a radio show produced by Nomadic Wax. This article was written for the Common Ground News Service (CGNews). To listen to the Nomadic…
Intercultural Dialogue: Goethe Institute Supports Post-Arab Spring Cultural Work – Qantara de News article
Artists of all types have played important roles in the uprising that have swept across the Arab World. From its offices in Cairo, Alexandria and Tunis, Germany’s Goethe Institute has been close to the action. The institute’s President Klaus-Dieter Lehmann tells Aya Bach what the Arab Spring revolutions mean for Germany’s foreign cultural policy. The…
Locked up for reading a poem:Ayat al-Gormezi, the woman who symbolises Bahrain’s fight for freedom – The Independent News
Ayat al-Gormezi was forced to give herself up after police raided her parents’ house and made four of her brothers lie on the floor at gunpoint More pictures Bahrain’s security forces are increasingly targeting women in their campaign against pro-democracy protesters despite yesterday lifting martial law in the island kingdom. Ayat al-Gormezi, 20,…
Arab Intellectuals and the Arab Spring: “The Silence of the Thinkers” – A commentary by Mona Naggar
Many intellectuals in the Arab world had already made their peace with the autocrats and dictators. Few of them made an active contribution to the Arab Spring movements. A commentary by Mona Naggar Adonis has introduced the achievements of the European modern age to Arab culture. He is also a passionate rebel countering the…
