The existential crisis of Maghrebi Jews did not just start in 1948, when the foundation of Israel brought about a deep rupture in the history of Jews in North Africa and the islamic Middle East. But…

World War I marks the birth of the modern Middle East. Today›s world of states is a direct political result of the war between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain, though it was only a sideshow. In…

In the 1950s, following the creation of Israel, the majority Egypt’s some 80,000 Jews were forced out of the country. But Shehata Haroun refused to leave. Shehata was a prominent leftist and an…

Five centuries after Sultan Bayezid II welcomed Sephardic Jewish refugees to Istanbul, Turkey’s Jewish community is slowly dwindling. Faced by rising anti-Semitism, increasing authoritarianism and…

Zu Sowjetzeiten wurde der Rubel wenig geachtet, obwohl er eine erstaunlich hohe Kauf- respektive Tauschkraft hatte. Wohnungsmieten, Energie, Grundnahrungsmittel, medizinische Versorgung und…

Der Begriff «Oligarch» taucht in der modernen Politikwissenschaft vor etwas mehr als 100 Jahren auf. Doch Russen oder besonders wohlhabend waren die Oligarchen in der bahnbrechenden Studie «Zur…