An Iraqi couple went through difficult months fearing deportation to refugee camps in Poland, just before the German authorities decided at the last minute to cancel the deportation and consider their requests for church asylum. In an effort to obtain protection, the Kurdish family lived under the roof of the Protestant Church, but their lives…
Mohammed Atef I was petrified after the announcement of the results of the presidential elections in the summer of 2014, I knew that it was the end. Some lost hope in the revolution after the massacre of Mohammed Mahmoud in November 2011, others lost it after the massacre of the Cabinet that took place a…
Mohammed Atef Migration and asylum are among the main themes that are always raised in the political arena and in the media scene in Germany. In this article, we briefly present the position of the main German political parties towards that sensitive issue. The Alternative for Germany (AFD) On the far right, there is…
The German Chancellor: “Germany has become the country of hope for immigrants” The Free Democratic Party: “Now is not the time to ease citizenship procedures” The Minister of Interior: “Those who oppose the reform must reach the twenty-first century” The Christian Social Union: “This reform thwarts the immigrants’ integration plan” The Chairwoman of the Federal…
It’s not just a fleeting distress or pain among others shouldered by Arab immigrants who are in voluntary or compulsory exile, but it’s rather an eerie obsession that keeps them up at night and haunts their thoughts during the day. Not a single day, not even a moment, goes by, on the numerous and varied…
