Worlds growing apart
22. Juli 2021
As I held my phone uncomfortably in front of my face, I looked at my grandmother sitting on her porch on the other side of the planet. She was wearing
As I held my phone uncomfortably in front of my face, I looked at my grandmother sitting on her porch on the other side of the planet. She was wearing
A young Syrian has landed in Hamburg under great physical and mental strain after a long odyssey. A fire in his container village has destroyed his identity papers. In desperation, he turns to the kohero-magazin
“We Jewish people are always reduced to the role of the victim. We have to be “protected”. But I don’t want to be protected by people that only see me as a victim”, says Rebecca Rogowski.
Answer: The Geneva Refugee Convention passport (also called “blue passport” or Geneva Passport) is only recognized as a travel document by the 145 countries worldwide that have joined the Geneva
Censorship does not only affect the things that are said or thought. Censorship also targets music, the one we are supposed to listen to – or the one we are precisely not supposed to listen to.
Our chief editor Hussam writes about the feeling of loneliness in exile, the search for belonging and the fear of dying in here.
Time vanquishes everything. It vanquishes the stone, the huge mountains and even the people, but it can never defeat memories. That is our curse as humans, never to be able to forget our worst memories. We are forced to accept these memories and embrace them as part of us.
„Every woman has the right to live freely and to wear the clothes she feels comfortable with,“ says our author, the 24-years old Shilan Ahmad from Syria. There are Muslims who wear Hijab and Muslims who prefer to wear their hair down. Shila Ahmad herself wears her Hijab with complete conviction and freedom.
When Moria, Europe’s largest refugee camp was destroyed, Greek police imposed restrictions to the journalists reporting on the situation with over 9,000 asylum seekers. They presented the restrictions as temporary; but they are still in effect.
Police violence against migrants is not new to 2020. It was first highly publicized in Calais. This city in the North of France is a compulsory transit zone for people leaving for Great Britain. Calais became the largest „slum in Europe“ in 2016, before falling off the map in recent years.
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