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  Interview with Alaa Al Aswany: ''We're Still at the Beginning'' - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Die-Revolution-ist-erst-am-Anfang/18075c83/index.html

  Alaa Al Aswany qualified as a dentist, but is better known to the world as the best-selling author of The Yacoubian Building and one of the spokespersons of the "Kifaya" protest movement. In this interview, he tells Thomas Kohlmann that the revolution on…

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  Mansoura ez-Eldin's ''Beyond Paradise'': Dark Family Secrets on the Nile - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Familiengeheimnisse-am-Nil/18507c19273i1p499/index.html

  A book by the Egyptian writer Mansoura ez-Eldin has been published in German for the first time. In it, the novelist relates a family saga set in the landscape of the Nile Delta. But as a work that first appeared in pre-revolutionary 2009, does it have…

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  Politische Unruhen im Iran: Ein Bumerang für die Hardliner - Qantara.de

  https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/proteste-im-iran-ein-bumerang-fuer-die-hardliner

  Der in den iranischen Provinzen entfachte Volkszorn hat längst auch die Metropolen des Landes erfasst. Dabei waren die Proteste anfangs als Kritik der Hardliner an Präsident Rohani gedacht, nicht am System insgesamt. Von Ali Sadrzadeh

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  Interview with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki: "Tunisia is attempting a democratic reconstruction" - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Man-muss-helfen-nicht-beten/20017c21601i1p496/index.html

  One has to be prepared to work with the Islamists for the sake of social peace, says the Tunisian president, Moncef Marzouki. He told Edith Kresta and Renate Fisseler-Skandrani that this applies even if some of them reject democracy

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  Iran's Green Movement Two Years after the Protests: Simmering beneath the Surface - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Brodeln-unter-der-Oberflaeche/16489c16713i1p83/index.html

  While Iran's revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei reinterpreted the toppling of the Mubarak regime as an Islamic rebellion, the protagonists in the Green Movement of 2009 looked to Cairo in frustration. Some of them may well have asked themselves the…

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  Todesdekret gegen den iranischen Rapper Shahin Najafi: ''Ich werde meine Arbeit fortsetzen'' - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Ich-werde-meine-Arbeit-fortsetzen/19072c20088i1p498/index.html

  Gegen den in Deutschland lebenden Rapper Shahin Najafi soll ein Großajatollah ein Todesdekret ausgesprochen haben. Im Interview mit Shahram Ahadi betont Najafi jedoch, sich nicht einschüchtern lassen zu wollen.

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  The Saudi Arabian Film ''Wadjda'': A Children's Story in a Grown-Up World - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/content/saudischer-spielfilm-wadjda-mitten-der-erwachsenenwelt

  Wadjda is the first feature film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman. Despite receiving support from the royal family, filming was very difficult for the German-Saudi film team. Nevertheless, the resulting film both tells a touching story and is a…

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  Interview with Etel Adnan: ''I React to What is Happening in the World'' - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Arabisch-amerikanische-Weltensammlerin/19420c20595i1p499/index.html

  Etel Adnan, the grand dame of Middle Eastern literature, is the epitome of cosmopolitanism: throughout her life, she has oscillated between one country, one language, and one genre and another. dOCUMENTA (13) dedicated an entire retrospective to this…

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  Christian Minorities in the Islamic World: No Arab Spring for Christians - Qantara.de

  http://de.qantara.de/Kein-Arabischer-Fruehling-fuer-Christen/18987c19915i1p498/index.html

  Christianity first emerged in the Orient. But today, Christians living in the Islamic world are marginalised and threatened with persecution. A problematic issue addressed at a conference organised by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin, Germany.…

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  Porträt des Musikers Bachar Mar-Khalifé: Mein Land der Ferne - Qantara.de

  https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/portraet-des-musikers-bachar-mar-khalife-mein-land-der-ferne

  Der libanesisch-französische Musiker Bachar Mar-Khalifé entwirft Klangwelten zwischen Orient und westlicher Avantgarde. Auf seinem neuen Album "Ya Balad" entfaltet er ein Spektrum aus ironischem Reggae, elektronischen Rhythmen, arabischer Poesie und…

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