Shabkas Syrian Futures Team hatte die Gelegenheit sich mit Tyma Kraitt zu einem Hintergrundgespräch über Syrien zu treffen. Mit der Regionalexpertin haben wir über mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen, den türkischen Einmarsch im Nordosten des Landes sowie die Rolle Europas diskutiert.
Shabka sat down with Josef Janning, head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), to discuss Austrias position in European politics, how to fight fragmentation within the European Union and the future of European security
Shabka hat den Politikwissenschaftler Bassil Salloukh in Beirut getroffen, um mit ihm über die Wahlen im Libanon, die Flüchtlingsfrage und eine mögliche Ausweitung des iranisch-israelischen Konfliktes auf den Libanon zu sprechen.
Am 1. April präsentierten Anna Achleitner, Valerie Bruckbög und Kathrin Kaisinger in der Brunnenpassage den Comic-Band „Blickwinkel“. Ein spannendes Debütwerk, das über sehr persönliche Geschichten die Themen Migration, Asyl und Integration aufgreift und zum Nachdenken anregen möchte.
A Revolution in Four Seasons portrays the first years of the wheels of democracy trying to turn in Tunisia after the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in January 2011.
States are increasingly incorporating development aid into their strategies for controlling migration. But is this the right way to look at the issue, and does it have any hope of ‘success’?
The former Force Commander of MONUSCO, LtGen Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, talked to Shabka about his past experiences, the increased complexity of conflict today and the effort of the UN in tackling the related challenges ahead.
In a talk about his recent book The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon, Bassel Salloukh introduces the country’s peculiar consociationalism, its sectarian political elite and how failed postwar policies serve the clientelist logic of the systems resilience.
A teenager in Northern Lebanon joined Al Qaeda’s Jabhat Al Nusra at only 17, after his uncle and cousin encouraged him. He later joined ISIS, and by 19 ended up in jail for killing a Lebanese soldier.
Šejla Kamerić discusses the status of art and women in the Balkans as well as her controversial piece “Bosnian Girl.” Inspired by the graffiti printed on the walls of the army barracks of Potočari, the piece takes on a renewed
