After the Arab Spring – Al Jazeera World
Five young Arabs from countries that went through the 2011 revolutions reflect on what has happened five years on.
Category: Society & Politics in the Middle East
My Jihadis – Two documentaries
How Thomas Evans went from pub-going electrician in High Wycombe to Al-Shabaab fighter in Somalia with 13-year-old bride. While Jalila’s a committed party girl, her twin sister Jamila tried to go to Syria and is now on remand in Holloway.
Turning weapons of war into art – Syrian artist Akram Abo Alfoz
On Middle East Eye an article about Akram Abo Alfoz bringing bombs and bullets back to life by painting on the remnants of war. [This artwork] serves as a message of hope, steadfastness and...
fier en flink zijn – Antoine Bodar met Jeroen Pauw over islam #vijfjaarlater
Op 23 december jl. was priester Antoine Bodar te gast bij het programma Vijfjaarlater. Hierin kijkt Jeroen Pauw met zijn gast terug op een interview dat hij vijf jaar eerder deed. Met Bodar gaat...
Syrian philosopher Sadiq Jalal al-Azm (1934-2016)
Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm born in 1934 has died. He was a Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy at the University of Damascus in Syria and, until 2007, a visiting professor in the Department of...
Dance or die: Syrian dancer fights the war in his own way
For the Dutch news program Nieuwsuur reporter Roozbeh Kaboly made a report about 26-year-old dancer Ahmad Joudeh and how he deals with the ongoing war and its predicaments.
‘A gift from the sky’ – Lebanese diaspora in Africa
Over a century-and-a-half, a combination of political instability, economic forces, famine and conflict has brought successive waves of Lebanese to West Africa, from where they have fanned out across the continent. The influx continues...
Geweld? Het is De Islam!!1 – Een overzicht van de wetenschappelijke benaderingen
Als mannen die moslim zijn en die geweld plegen altijd gedreven worden door ideologie en witte mannen die geen moslim zijn en geweld plegen altijd verward zijn, waarom leidt het eerste dan tot een...
100 years later – The Armenian Genocide & Historian Ara Sarafian seeking reconciliation
100 Years Later is a film about the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the work of historian Ara Sarafian to create reconciliation despite the official denialism of the Turkish state.
Britain’s First Yemenis
Al Jazeera’s Britain’s First Yemenis Half a world away in the UK, British Yemenis view events in their home country with concern – and feel a responsibility to offer help to the country and...