Charlie Bertsch / 22 Dec 2021
Hip-Hop Spring
Jolfa, by Alexie Ivanovich
People often speak of a need to express themselves in music. But few in the West contend with the difficulties that face Iranian hip-hop artist Alexie Ivanovich.(...)
Religion
John Foster / 19 Feb 2021
Bullshit Politics
The Lying Right
For Americans, who are wont to see everything in Biblical terms, the Arctic temperatures which froze much of their country this week were a punishment from God.(...)
Udi Raz / 25 Jan 2021
Berlin’s Christian Problem
Lockdown Discrimination Politics
Due to rising coronavirus infection figures, in December 2020, Germany’s federal government and states announced a second lockdown.(...)
John Foster / 15 Jan 2021
Trump’s Christian ISIS
QAnon and Martyrdom
Ashli Babbitt might be dead. But she’s become a national icon, for both the right and the left.(...)
Samee Alhwash / 19 Nov 2020
Islam and Colonialism
Secularising the Conflict
Whether in the boycott French products campaign on social media or through conversations with friends, Muslims I know feel conflicted about the recent terrorist attacks in Vienna and Nice.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 28 Sep 2020
Change Comes to Montenegro
Resisting the Call of Nationalism
We arrived late in the evening by car from Brussels to Podgorica. No small feat, given the length of the journey and borders closing due to Coronavirus. We found ourselves following the Israeli cycling team out of Belgium’s Ardennes.(...)
Joel Schalit / 23 Sep 2019
My Life With Netanyahu
The View From Berlin
"He's going to save Israel from the Europeans." So said my late aunt, handing me a photocopy of something written by its new ambassador to the UN. "Netanyahu speaks the truth."(...)
The Battleground / 10 May 2019
The God That Survived
Identity Politics in ex-Soviet Europe
Few areas of news coverage are as new to religion as it is to Europe. Particularly for journalists from the United States and the Middle East, where faith and politics are ineluctably intertwined.(...)