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Interview with Bangladeshi Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain

Bangladeshi Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain on the plans of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus' interim government, why he is hoping for an apology from Pakistan and why he does not want to give away St. Martin´s island in the Bay of Bengal.

Interview with Bangladeshi Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain
Emin Milli über Aserbaidschan, Armenien und Karabach
Emin Milli on Azerbaijan, Armenia and Karabakh

What are the chances for real peace after the recent Karabakh war?

Russia, Islam and History
Russia, Islam and History

Fearing supposed ethnic replacement and Islamisation, the German Right looks longingly towards Russia. What kind of ahistorical myopia is that?

Interview with Naseef Naeem on constitutions in the Arab world
Interview with Naseef Naeem on constitutions in the Arab world

Legal scholar Naseef Naeem on his new book “The State and Its Foundations in the Arab Republics”, the pitfalls of European notions of democracy, and why the real challenge for global legal standards arises further east.

Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia
Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia

An Iranian-Saudi war along sectarian lines could spell doom for Pakistan and could put its Shia minority into a stranglehold. The first priority for foreign policy should be to mitigate this, and quickly.

Zillur Rahman
Fake news and elections: Zillur Rahman on media and politics in Bangladesh

His daily political talk show is watched by millions of Bangladeshis every day. Renowned TV host Zillur Rahman about the upcoming elections, fake news, and a repressive new media law.