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Analysis

Asia Bibi and Pakistan´s Great Win Against Bigotry

11 February 2019 -

After spending eight years of solitary confinement in an 8f x 10f death cell, Asia Bibi (51) has been declared innocent. She was released from jail after a three-member Supreme Court bench cleared her ...

Column

The Ambiguities of Anti-Semitism

2 November 2018 -

It's essential we do not see antisemitism or the Shoah as something unique, says Anya Topolski in her column. It blinds us for a systematic pattern of racism and genocide, and, because it means we do ...

Report

Kairouan, or the network behind the Tunisian suspect of the Berlin attack

15 February 2017 -

Anis Amri, chief suspect behind the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, grew up in Kairouan. Jihadi Salafists proclaimed this ancient Tunisian city the capital of an Islamic state. The shooter who ...

Longread

Trump brings the European New Right into the White House. To be continued in 2017?

6 December 2016 -

Everyone fears Trump will give the European far-right parties a boost. But it is the European New Right that laid the ideological foundations for Trump. Their network has been paving the way since 196 ...

Interview

‘Waging War, Eating Meat, Capitalism – Evidence Of A Harrowing Lack Of Imagination’

3 February 2016 -

Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist who loves science more than incense, believes the logic of cooperation will, by a process of natural selection, eventually come to replace the logic of neoliberalism. With ...

Analysis

Roots of radicalisation in Pakistan

29 May 2015 -

The political and intellectual consensus against terrorism in Pakistan is getting regular shocks by unabated terrorist attacks on civilians and communities. With 1520 people killed during 5 months of ...

Opinion

Self-criticism is the mother of dialogue

21 April 2011 -

These days, Judaism and Christianity are often presented as kindred souls who stand for democracy and human rights, while Islam is cut from a wholly different cloth. This essay by Tom Kenis argues tha ...