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The German mosque that attracts women imams, gays and death threats
BERLIN â As attendees filed out of the Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque â tucked away in a room on the third floor of a Protestant church in Berlinâs Moabit district â two women whispered furiously at...
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Angie and Theresa’s mountain magic
LONDON â Europe’s political leaders are taking their summer holidays and both Angela Merkel and Theresa May have chosen to get away from it all this week in the Italian Alps. Che coincidenza! The...
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The EU can’t solve Italy’s migration crisis
LERICI, Italy â Since 2015, immigration has become a major flashpoint in Europe. It motivated Brexit. It fuels populism and xenophobia across the bloc. Can it now upend Italian politics? Italy is...
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Risky business: Keeping an eye on Chinese investment
If money talks, Chinese money is particularly loud these days. In the past five years, Chinese investment abroad â largely dominated by the country’s giant state-owned enterprises â has tripled....
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The man who would beat Putin
MOSCOW nly a little more than 48 hours had passed since Leonid Volkov had been released from a cramped Moscow detention center, but the outspoken Kremlin critic was already back at work plotting to...
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Street fighting, man!
Politicians are a petty lot. If good old-fashioned diplomacy (or war) doesn’t work, one tactic pretty much guaranteed to annoy a rival country is to rename the street on which their embassy sits in...
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German deportations ignore risks LGBT asylum seekers face at home
BERLIN â Before she fled her home country of Lebanon, Eliana could only find work as an escort. As a trans woman, she faced the constant threat of arrest and torture at Beirutâs notorious Hbeish...
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Policing the line between expression and violence
LONDON â When do peaceful â if extremist â opinions become an incitement to violence? Thatâs the question British security services are struggling with after a spate of deadly attacks, in...
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The problem isn’t Putin, it’s Russia
NEW YORK â The introduction of new sanctions by the United States on Russia has sent relations between the two countries to lows not seen since the end of the Cold War. Each side blames the other...
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Turkey’s economy: The next casualty of Erdoğan’s state of emergency
For the past year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan has exploited his countryâs state of emergency to rule by decree, purging government ranks, imprisoning political dissenters and crushing...
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In pictures: Confronting Belgium’s colonial past
In October 2004, Maggy Delvaux soaked herself in gasoline, struck a match and set herself alight in the heart of Luxembourg’s capital. “I made two mistakes in my life,” read the letter she left...
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Turkish author Elif Shafak’s cautionary tale for the West
LONDON â âHistory doesnât necessarily move forward,â says Elif Shafak. âSometimes, it does go backward.â Itâs a line that Turkeyâs most celebrated female novelist has taken to...
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In pictures: Risky business for ‘sexugees’ in Turkey
ISTANBUL â Open any dating app in Istanbul and you will see the effects of the refugee crisis appear on your screen. For many LGBT refugees who have fled war and persecution â from former students...
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Schröder’s Russian sell-out
BERLIN â Last weekâs nomination of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to the board of Rosneft, Russiaâs largest oil company, is the most spectacular example to date of a Western...
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I used to be a neo-Nazi. Charlottesville terrifies me.
When I was a skinhead, living in the Los Angeles area in the 1980s, I remember watching a favorite video with my fellow extremists. It was footage of the 1979 Greensboro massacre, when Ku Klux Klan...
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My life at a Russian propaganda network
âWhat would you do if we asked you to write something that wasnât true?â I was sitting in a 10th-floor conference room in the K Street offices of âRIA Global,â otherwise known as the...
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Europe’s military maestros: Italy
LONDON â Itâs time we gave the Italian military some respect. On the face of it, Italy is a woeful member of NATO, spending just 1.11 percent of GDP on defense â far below the allianceâs 2...
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Nothing stopping discussions on EU-UK relationship after Brexit
In your article âBritish business to lobby Brussels on Brexit transition deal,â you claim that the EUâs chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier âinsistsâ that unless âseparation issues are...
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As reforms stall, a Ukrainian cultural revolution
ODESSA, Ukraine â Ukraineâs political reformers and corruption-busters might be disappointed. But its artists, musicians and filmmakers have plenty to be excited about. In the wake of the 2014...
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Catalan nationalists campaign on backs of the dead
MADRID â Once again Islamic terrorism has not only claimed lives but created political havoc in Spain. In March 2004, the subway bombings that killed more than 190 were key to the victory of the...
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