In the beginning of December 2016, Angela Merkel called for a burka ban during the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party’s congress. Specifically, she said “The...
“When we returned, we had no bed to sleep, no pots to cook, nor clothes to dress. We went to our house and it was confiscated...
There were many clouds in the sky. The temperature was still hot enough for early October and I was walking hurriedly across the narrow streets of...
Ιn 1923, hundreds of families of Greek Evangelicals from Pontos and Asia Minor found refuge in Katerini. Until then, Katerini was a small town of only...
On the Greek island of Crete, a longstanding Jewish community had its presence since the first century b.c. The community had been flourishing throughout the centuries...
1820, Westphalia: Clemens Brentano sits next to her bed. Two years ago he moved to the city of Dülmen in Westphalia to be with her every...
33 days after the Jewish Easter. The Jews are preparing to celebrate Lag BaOmer. The Ghriba Synagogue with its Blue Tiles on Djerba Island in Tunisia...
The Albanian Bektashi Monastery of Farsala May 1st 2017: Some hundred meters outside Farsala, in the village of Asprogia, cars start gathering early in the morning....
I entered the courtyard. Christoph, the Austrian intern, was there, sitting on a wooden chair, ready to light his cigarette. He was there because he chose...
The calendars would write “Year 1900” when three French Catholic monks of the African Mission would arrive for the first time in Samos Island, a remoted...
