I am not happy today. I am not sad either. I have been in this moment before. When the two...
Speech by Kenyan Ambassador to the UN Martin Kimani on February 21 at the urgent meeting of the UN Security...
At his art events, the German performance artist and art theorist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) advocated the need for a connection between Europe and Asia. The symbol of this encounter for him was the hare. A search for traces in his work. When Joseph Beuys decided to perform with a hare, it was...
Parties in conflict agree to enter into peace negotiations if they expect to gain more from them than from a...
Nakba Day—the Memory of the Catastrophe—is observed annually on May 15. It commemorates the Nakba, the violent uprooting and expulsion...
Can you imagine what it’s like to arrive at Europe’s borders as a refugee? The film ‹Nasim› tells the story of such a woman from an on-the-ground perspective, not from a political-theoretical bird’s eye view. Nasim is stranded with her family in the camp of Moria and was accompanied there...
The crisis in Ukraine continues to escalate. What role does Europe play? Not getting caught between the camps of East...
Reflections and reader responses to the interview by Frode Barkved with Ukranian Serhii Kopyl, “Everything I Own, I Carry with...
Silvio Berlusconi died at 86 on June 12, 2023, in Milan (where he was also born), in the San Raphael private hospital—a place where he dealt with different health issues for years. One can effortlessly point one’s finger at Berlusconi for wrong-doing, as many have done during his 30 years...
A discussion with an African friend led Christopher Becker to the narratives that are at work on both sides. He...
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but we can’t escape the sword’s power to corrupt the word—the conditions...









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