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Muslims in Lebanon: anyone who attaches importance to religious instruction sends their children to a Koran school.

Koran schools

More than holy scriptures

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
Islam has been taught for centuries at Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

Islamic religious teaching

A mixture of elementary and Koran school

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by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
Many Yezidi women had to flee their homes in Northern Iraq due to assaults by ISIS militias and are know facing violence and harsh living conditions.

Gender relations

Young Arab men fight for women’s rights

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by Katja Dombrowski

Press freedom

News agency for Libya

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by Moutaz Ali
Diaspora entrepreneurs do much more than run Afro-shops in Germany.

Africans in Germany

Drivers of change

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by Abdou Rahime Diallo
Eskinder Mamo (right) and Amanuel Abrah founded AhadooTec ICT Solutions in Addis Ababa.

International exchange

Studying in Germany helped to tackle Ethiopian problems

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by Abdou Rahime Diallo

German media inadvertently feed ISIS propaganda

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by Hans Dembowski
The concentrated solar power plant Noor I at the foot of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.

Renewable energy

The social dimension of “desert power”

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by Boris Schinke
by Conrad Schetter
Anti-ISIS protest in Indonesia.

Online propaganda

Countering the media strategy of ISIS

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by Ute Schaeffer
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