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Rayan Dieudonné aus Haiti in der Rolle des neunjährigen Rico.

Film

A child’s experience of exile

“Kanaval” is a powerful film about migration, being foreign and the search for a new beginning, told from a child’s perspective. Its emotional impact is deepened by the life story of its young lead.

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth

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Friedrich Merz and Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference in Jerusalem in December 2025.

Israel/Palestine

A distorted idea of the “reason of state”

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by Hans Dembowski
Without press freedom, darkness prevails: Streetlights have been turned off in Cairo during an effort to save energy in March.

Press freedom

What it means to be a journalist in President Sisi’s Egypt

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by Mostafa Nabil
Ultra fans of Al Ahly protest against the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo in September 2011.

Football stories

Egypt’s Ultras as part of the revolution

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by Marius Moniak
The Quizat office in Damascus.

Post-conflict societies

Syria’s start-ups: building innovation from the rubble

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by Rishabh Jain
A boy is hanging up laundry at Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, which has been converted into an emergency shelter for refugees.

Conflict

Life in war-torn Lebanon: refuge in a football stadium

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by Ali Awadeh
GenZ 212 protests in front of the Moroccan parliament in Rabat in October 2025.

Gen Z

“Hospitals before stadiums”: Morocco’s youth protests over football

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by Salma Mansouri

Violence against women

Why marriage is reviving female genital mutilation in Egypt

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by Ahmed Dahaby
The port of Lobito in Angola, which gave its name to the Lobito Corridor.

Africa

Economic infrastructure alone is not enough for growth

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by Georg Schäfer
An Iranian woman with a mobile phone outside a café in Tehran in April 2026. The windows are covered with tape to prevent them from shattering in the event of an explosion.

Iran

How Iranians try to get by every day amid war

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by Ariya Farahmand
Experts from The HALO Trust educate schoolchildren in Idlib province about the dangers posed by mines and unexploded ordnance.

Humanitarian aid

Mines: a lethal obstacle to Syria’s reconstruction

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by Kim Berg