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...Arab Jews. The rise of Arab nationalism in the mid-20th century was accompanied by virulent anti-Semitism in the Arab world. Many Arab leaders openly supported the genocide carried out by the Nazis. Hajj Amin al-Husayni, a Palestinian nationalist leader and the Mufti of Jerusalem, went to Berlin in 1941 and asked Hitler to “resolve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and the other Arab countries in the same way as the problem was resolved in the Axis Countries.” A few years later, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Morocco...
...deeply - Chirac told the British Prime Minister he was being rude and postponed next month's Anglo-French summit until early 2003. Chirac has come out firing to bolster the political, economic and cultural clout of Paris, to check the shift of the E.U.'s center of gravity to Berlin and to deflect attention from Washington. On some fronts he's fighting a losing battle. He took time off last month to lend his backing to a conference of French-speaking nations in Lebanon in a futile bid to stop the relentless march of the English language, spearheaded by American...
...renounced Karl Marx, the people of the east are finding that Europe is like the club described by Groucho: not quite so desirable now that it will take them as members. What began as a grand project to reunite the sundered halves of Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is ending as a cold calculation of structural funds and subsidy levels. What used to be about blood and passion - binding wounds, seizing the historical moment, forging a common future - is now about getting paid and looking out for No. 1. Make a stirring speech about unifying...
...greatest pieces of art in the last 20 years—Magnolia, a film that weaves a beautiful tableau of the ups and downs of human existence and, ultimately, of redemption. Though in some respects a huge critical success (it won the Golden Bear Award at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival) the film was met with a mixed reaction—some loved it because of its daring and compassion, while others felt that it was nonsensical (it features a musical interlude and the strangest storm you will ever see) and at over three hours much too long. Some believed...
...floor of a deconsecrated Evangelical church in Berlin's Kreuzberg area, Ismet Dertli puts the finishing touches on the curriculum for a new subject being offered in the city's public schools. It's a course that hasn't previously been taught in any government-sanctioned school, at least not for a few centuries: Turkish Alevism. This mystic brand of Islam is practiced by 25% of the more than 2.5 million Turks in Germany and up to 30% of Turkey's 66 million people - though you won't find them in any census. That's because Turkey, mindful...