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Why Berlin needs its Anatolian music festival more than ever
On 14 June, Germany’s biggest festival of Anatolian music will hit Berlin. Its founder says its message of inclusion has never been more urgent
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The crisis of Muslim burials in Europe
A critical lack of graves and expensive repatriations means the problem of how to bury growing numbers of Muslim dead has reached a tipping point
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Are Germany’s efforts to silence pro-Palestine voices through legislation legal?
Human rights experts raise warnings about bans, laws and deportation efforts targeting German critics of Israel’s military activity
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Not just for dervishes: how (and where) to give whirling a whirl
Across Europe, Muslims and non-Muslims alike are trying this Sufi spinning dance, intended to induce a meditative state. You can join them
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Exiled Syrian TV chef Malakeh Jazmati makes first trip home since Assad fell
Deciding to return was easy. But with children at school in Germany, and Syria in ruins, nothing else is straightforward for the restaurateur
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How German Muslims voted in the federal elections and why
Concerns about the economy and anti-immigrant discrimination brought Germany’s Muslim minority out in force for left and centre left parties
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Why more German Turkish voters could be voting for the anti-immigrant AfD
Germany heads to the polls on Sunday — and nearly 20% of its Turkish population is expected to back the far right, thanks in part to viral videos
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Filmmaker: Germany has learnt nothing from its history of anti-Muslim violence
Martina Priessner’s documentary The Mölln Letters, exploring how Germany fails the victims of far-right terror, opens at the Berlin film festival as elections dominated by anti-migrant rhetoric loom
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Cuts to Germany’s asylum mental health services put lives at risk, experts warn
Amid anti-immigration rhetoric stoked by a fatal stabbing in Aschaffenburg, trauma specialists say refugees need help just as resources are taken away
