Die neue Außenpolitik der Türkei unter der AKP-Regierung (All-Prints Distributors & Publishers, Beirut) ist am 18 Dezember bei der Beiruter Internationalen Buchmesse in der libanesischen Hauptstadt vorgestellt worden. Nachdem Sarkis Abu Zaid und Saad Mehio das Buch in arabischer Sprache präsentiert haben, antworteten die beiden Autoren Muriel Mirak-Weißbach und Dr. Jamal Wakim auf Fragen des Publikums. Rezensionen sind in mehreren arabischen Zeitungen erschienen.

 Turkey’s New Foreign Policy under the AKP (All-Prints Distributors & Publishers, Beirut) was presented on December 18 at the Beirut International Book Fair in the Lebanese capital. Following introductions to the book (in Arabic) by Sarkis Abu Zaid and Saad Mehio, the two authors, Muriel Mirak-Weissbach and Dr. Jamal Wakim engaged in discussion with the audience. Reviews appeared in several Arabic newspapers.Read further...

Tag: Beirut International Book Fair, All-Prints Distributors & Publishers, Beirut, AKP, Turkish Foreign Policy, Außenpolitik der Türkei , Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Dr. Jamal Wakim

In addition to personal memoirs of “hidden Armenians” several photographic collections documenting the history of the Armenians in Turkey and their fate in World War I are contributing to the expanding debate among civil society of the subject...Read further...

Tag: Osman Köker, Armen Marsoobian , Orlando Carlo Calumeno, Marsoobian Familie

 The well-known genocide researcher Prof. Taner Akçam from Clark Univeristy (Worcester, Massachusetts) was on a lecture tour in Germany from November 26-29. He spoke at the Free University Berlin (26.11), the Potsdam University (27.11) and the Lepsiushaus-Potsdam (28.11) on the genocide aginst the Armenians. On 29.11 Prof. Akçam was joined by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach for a workshop with two classes of high school students from Potsdam and Berlin.


 Der bekannte Genozidforscher Prof. Taner Akçam von der Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts) war vom 26. bis 29. November zu Gast in Deutschland. Er hielt Vorträge an der Freien Universität Berlin (26.11.), der Universität Potsdam (27.11.) und dem Lepsiushaus-Potsdam (28.11.) über den Völkermord an den Armeniern. Am 29.11. leitete Akçam zusammen mit Muriel Mirak-Weißbach einen Workshop für zwei Klassen aus Gymnasien in Potsdam und Berlin. Read further...

Tag: Prof. Taner Akçam , Clark University, Freien Universität Berlin, Universität Potsdam, Lepsiushaus-Potsdam

Excavations in the area of Yerevan, capital of the Republic of Armenia, have unearthed new evidence of the pre-Christian Kingdom of Van or Urartu.
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Tag: Van or Urartu, Yerevan, Archeology

Am 17 Oktober organisierte der Kulturverein Spree-Athen eine Veranstaltung über die Literatur des Genozids. Unter dem Titel "Im Brennpunkt der Erinnerung": Texte zu dem 1915 in der Türkei verübten Völkermord...Read further...

Tag: Kulturverein Spree-Athen, Dogan Akhanlı , ea Ehlers Kerbekian, Muriel Mirak-Weißbach, Anton Peisakhov

October 8, 2013 – The turmoil that has swept Turkey since the eruption of protests in Gezi Park and Taksim Square seems to have reached the institutions of the judiciary as well. On October 4, the Istanbul court convened to review the case of Dogan Akhanli, a German-Turkish author and human rights activist who had been framed up on charges of membership in a subversive political organization and participation in armed robbery and murder. In 2010, the same Istanbul court had handed down an acquittal, clearing him of all charges.Read further...

Tag: Dogan Akhanli

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
Special to the Mirror-Spectator

GUMRI — Armenians in Gumri celebrated the 22nd anniversary of independence appropriately with music. On September 20, a day before the official festivities took place in Yerevan and other cities, leading national figures joined by international guests officiated over the open- ing of the brand new Octet music school, which had been destroyed in the 1988 earth- quake. Read further...

Tag: Gumri, Gumri Octet School, Ian Gillan , John Dee, Deep Purple, Haik Hovivyan, Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Samvel Balasanyan, Felix Tsolakyan, President Serge Sargisian, Edward and Janet Mardigian

During a ceremony inaugurating the Monument of Common Conscience in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Kurdish leaders issued an apology for the genocide against Armenians and Assyrians, and called on Turkish authorities to follow suit.Read further...

Tag: Armenians, Assirians, Kurds, Turkey

Am 7 September 2013 wurden die Mirak-Weißbach-Stiftung und das Projekt „Ein Blüthner-Flügel für Gjumri“ im Lepsiushaus, Potsdam vorgestellt. Auszüge der Rede der Mitbegründerin der Stiftung. Read further...

Tag: Lepsiushaus, Potsdam, Blüthner-Flügel, Gjumri, Prof. Hayruni, Frau Anna Maria Pammer

Artikel über Syrien von Vizepräsidenten der Deutsch-Arabische-Gesellschaft Dr. Gerhard Fulda
Der Konflikt in Syrien muss auch Anlass sein, das Konzept der Schutzverantwortung weiter auszuarbeiten. Doch der Libyeneinsatz 2011 bietet dafür keine geeignete Vorlage, meint Botschafter a.D. und DAG-Vizepräsident Gerhard Fulda.
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Tag: Dr. Gerhard Fulda

„Ich weiß, daß manche bei meinen Sprüngen nur so lange geklatscht haben, wie der Fallschirm noch zu war.“
Jürgen Möllemann (1945-2003)

Genau 10 Jahre nach Möllemanns Tod sorgt ein rätselhafter Brief des FDP-Politikers und Möllemann-Freundes, Wolfgang Kubicki, für Aufsehen. Für den Unbedarften mögen diese Informationen, dass sich Möllemann damals verfolgt und beobachtet fühlte, neu sein, denn laut Medienangaben gibt es an der Suizidthese nichts zu rütteln. Read further...

Tag: Jürgen Möllemann , Heiko Schrang

Die Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft begrüßt die EU-Richtlinie zur Zusammenarbeit mit Israel, mit der verhindert werden soll, für Israel bestimmte europäische Fördergelder auch israelischen Projekten in den besetzten palästinensischen Gebieten zugute kommen zu lassen.Read further...

Tag: EU, Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft, Israel

BERLIN — In Germany, where the largest Turkish community outside of Turkey lives, there were two special events commemorating the life and work of Hrant Dink on the sixth anniversary of his death. Along with cultural events, like the performance of the play “Anne’s Silence,” there were presentations of a new book by a Turkish intellectual. Read further...

Tag: Hasan Çemal, Çemal Pasha, KulturForum TürkeiDeutschland

In October 2012, my new book, Madmen at the Helm: Pathology and Politics in the Arab Spring (Ithaca, July 2012) was presented in several venues in the Boston area: the Old South Meeting House (Oct. 17), Book Ends bookstore in Winchester (Oct. 18), the Armenian Cultural Foundation (Oct. 21) and Robbins Public Library, Arlington (Oct. 25). The first event in the historic Old South Meeting House was a panel discussion together with Professor Roger Owen of Harvard University, author of The RISE and FALL of Arab Presidents for Life (Harvard University Press, May 2012). Psychologist Dr. Jack Danielian was the moderator. Read more...
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Tag: Madmen at the Helm: Pathology and Politics in the Arab Spring , The RISE and FALL of Arab Presidents for Life, Professor Roger Owen

Prof. Walid Khalidi, the renowned Palestinian historian who was the first to publish in English documents of “Plan Dalet” – the Zionist project to expel the Palestinians in 1948, was the keynote speaker at a conference in Washington, DC on October 22, 2012. The conference, organized by the Institute of Palestinian Studies, was entitled, “The Nakba: 60 Years of Dispossession, 60 Years of Resistance. His speech can be viewed on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxY1oUmpsqw
A digital version of Prof. Khalidi’s book, Before Their Diaspora, has just eben issued. See: http://btd.palestine-studies.org/ This richly illustrated volume, first published in 1984, documents life in Palestine before the expulsion.

Tag: Prof. Walid Khalidi, Nakba, Before Their Diaspora, Plan Dalet

Ilan Pappe, the leading member of the so-called “new historians” from Israel, delivered a lecture in the context of an extraordinarily successful exhibit on the NAKBA (the expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948) in Berne, Switzerland in late November. Professor Pappe is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (OneWorld, Oxford, 2006), which presents documentation from the Israeli side of the Nakba, first researched by Walid Khalidi. Pappe spoke on November 30 at the University of Berne, on the subject, “1948 – A Different Story.” Following the presentation before a crowd of 400, there was a question and answer session. Both were filmed by Simsalafilm and are available on YouTube:
Part 1: The speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R91asKI_kQ
Part 2: Q & A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGL2tw8CN0

Tag: Ilan Pappe, Nakba

Im Januar veranstaltet das Hrant Dink Forum Köln erneut Gedenkveranstaltungen zum 6. Todestag des ermordeten Journalisten und Menschenrechtlers:
Am 17., 18. und 19. Januar jeweils um 20 Uhr wird das Theaterstück „Annes Schweigen“ des Kölner Autors Doğan Akhanlı im Theater im Bauturm gezeigt; (mit Bea Ehlers-Kerbekian, Regie: Ron Rosenberg), mit anschl. Diskussionenen, u.a. mit Günter Wallraff, Muriel Mirak-Weißbach und Osman Okkan. Mehr Infos unter: www.annesschweigen.blogspot.com
Der Autor und Journalist Hasan Cemal, Enkel des für den Völkermord an den Armeniern mitverantwortlichen Cemal Pascha, stellt am 21. Januar 2013 um 19 Uhr in der Großen Aula der Universität Köln sein Buch „1915 – Ermeni Soykırım“ / 1915 – Genozid an den Armeniern“ vor. Hasan Cemal ist am 18.1.2013 um 19 Uhr an der Humboldt-Universität in Berlin zu Gast.

Tag: Hrant Dink Forum Köln, Doğan Akhanlı

Cemal (Djemel) Pasha was one of the three Young Turk leaders responsible for organizing the 1915 genocide against the Armenians. His grandson, Hasan Cemal, published a book on the topic in September. See http://armenpress.am/eng/news/692511/cemal-pasha-grandson-publishes-a-book-about-armenian-genocide.html
Buch von Hasan Cemal über den Massenmord an den Armeniern 1915:
http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/andruck/1920047/

Tag: Hasan Cemal

The ruling party of South Africa, a country whose apartheid regime was ended in part due to an international boycott campaign, has joined the efforts of the BDS to boycott Israeli goods.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/south-africa-s-ruling-party-endorses-bds-campaign-against-israel.premioum-1.486195

Tag: South Africa, Israel, Boycott, BDS