In the article on web.de, "From cruzifix to headscarf: this is the state of the debate 25 years later," Jörn Thielmann, managing director, and Mathias Rohe, director at EZIRE were among the experts asked for comments about the topic.
The law to put up a cruzifix in every Bavarian classroom was, i...
On July 13, the associated EZIRE-member Hüseyin Çiçek commented in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard the transformation of the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque by the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
For Çiçek this transformation does not only imply an attack on the freedom of religion in...
In his commentary on May 14 in the Vienna-based newspaper Der Standard Hüseyin I. Çiçek, political scientist and associated EZIRE-member, elaborates on the possible impact of the Corona Crisis on the governing style of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
According to Çiçek the political m...
On May 4, the news forum Qantara.de published an interview between the legal scholar, Islamic scientist and founding rector of the EZIRE, Mathias Rohe, and the chief editor of the Evangelischen Pressedienst , Judith Kubitschek. Rise gave the wish of many Islamic associations and mosques in Germany t...
At the end of April 2020, it was announced that the Hessian state government would cancel the cooperation with DİTİB regarding the Islamic religious education in schools. Based on available reports, “the doubts about the necessary criteria by Ditib Hesse could not be eliminated to the necessary degr...
On April 21 2020, after a consultation at the Oettingers' grave - see her book 'Etwas hoffen muss das Herz'. Eine Familiengeschichte von Juden, Christen und Muslimen (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018) - Gerdien Jonker's "Berlin Walks marked by the Corona Virus" came to an end. After the relaxation in Ber...
What are the schloars working in social sciences and humanities doing in times of Corona? Usually they work in libraries and archives or meet people for research interviews. In the case of the EZIRE, visits to mosques or associations are part of the daily work, as are presentations and seminars beyo...
In his guest commentary in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard from March 10, the political scientist and associated EZIRE member Hüseyin Çiçek wrote about the armistice agreement between the conflicting parties in the Syrian province Idlib. According to him this agreement was leading to a "diploma...
On Febuary 28 Hüseyin Çiçek, political scientist and associated EZIRE-member, commented in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung the current military situation in Syria, regarding its implications for the relation between Turkey and the USA.
Since months, the military single-handed actions taken by Turkey in...
On occassion of the nomination of the Muslim candidate Ozan Iybias by the conservative party CSU (Christian-Social Union) for the mayor elections in Neufahrn, Bavaria, Professor Mathias Rohe, legal scholar and Islamic Scientist at the FAU, a swell as founding rector of the EZIRE, spoke out in an onl...
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