My friend Hani Yousuf: A few weeks ago I met a pleasant Austrian woman at a party in a bar in Prenzlauerberg, the formerly East Berlin area now home to the young, professional and cool. It was a weeknight, lights in the bar were violet and dim and conversation was possible. We were celebrating a… Read More »
As you’ve probably heard, the Pirate Party got elected into the Berlin state parliament late last year. They got 8.9% of the votes, which gave them 15 seats. Last month in local elections in another state, Saarland, they got 7.4% of the votes, but more importantly, they got 25% of the first-time voters and about… Read More »
I just got this in the mail. If you have any questions, write to the email addresses in the body of the Call. “Call for Applications” (ICD Conferences, January – March 2012) Dear Sir/ Madam, On behalf of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, I am writing to bring to your attention the following major programs… Read More »
1. Unsere Frauen bleiben frei! – On Islamophobia in Berlin 2. Threat to bomb 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos? Yes, it has something to do with Boko Haram. 3. Why Nigeria recognised Libya transition council – Minister for foreign affairs explains 4. On Libyan revolutionaries and racism. See also Jina Moore on the same topic… Read More »
15th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, March 28 – 31, 2012 With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a new era seemed to have opened up: a world without borders and thus – potentially – a world with less conflict and more freedom. Today, more than 20 years later, we can observe that some… Read More »
I was at a talk by Joel Bakan, writer and co-creator of the documentary The Corporation today here in Berlin. In the spirit of all that, let me share this story that has been sitting on my desktop for the past couple of days. By Venkatesh Rao: On 8 June, a Scottish banker named Alexander… Read More »
Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin(Jeder stirbt für sich allein), written in 1946, 18 months after the end of the Second World War, is based on the true story of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple who lived in Berlin during the Nazi period. After the death of Elise’s brother in the war, the couple… Read More »
Jonathan Rosenthal, The Economist’s European finance correspondent writes about my (for now) adopted city, Berlin: Iconoclasm is not just the preserve of the rebellious poor. In Berlin’s opera houses—there are still three, despite the broken budget—audiences are known to boo and hiss. When I went to a performance directed by Nigel Kennedy earlier this year… Read More »
Press Release by SUSPECT on the refusal of the Zivilcourage Prize by Judith Butler at the Berlin Pride on 19th June, 2010: As Berlin Queer and Trans Activists of Colour and Allies we welcome Judith Butler’s decision to turn down the Zivilcourage Prize awarded by Berlin Pride. We are delighted that a renowned theorist has… Read More »
1. Is China a developing country? 2. Swedish think tank wants to clean up relief deliveries with a new ethical aid tool 3. Why cycling in Berlin is a dream 4. The corrupt reign of Emperor Silvio 5. Don’t cry for Wall Street 6. Towards a new world economy 7. Why some Egyptians are becoming… Read More »