I just had a debate at @Ali_Mustafa’s ‘Strait Talk’ from TRT World on the rise of the far right in Germany. Watch here

Read my latest op-ed on Czech President Milos Zeman′s re-election here.

My op-ed on the election of president Miloš Zeman for The Bridge Initiative. Read here

Vienna’s “New Year’s Baby” made it to the international edition of the New York Times, something that doesn’t happen every year. The reason, far from festive, was the wave of hatred sweeping Austrian online media after a picture showing a young Muslim family celebrating the birth of their newborn daughter, Asel, was published in Austria’s […]

Mit Miloš Zeman hat die Tschechische Republik abermals einen Präsidenten gewählt, der Donald Trump zujubelt, weil dieser keine Muslime in die USA einreisen lassen will und sich selbst als Prophet der Warnung gegen Immigration und eine imaginierte islamische Gefahr sieht. Mein Kommentar auf qantara.de hier zum Nachlesen

Eine Kurzanalyse der Präsentation des neuen Regierungsprogramms hier nachzulesen.

Interview

In the past, far-right parties would have been ostracised, but now it’s a question of how to accommodate them. My latest op-ed for TRT World. Read here

On the rise of Islamophobia in Austria interviewed by National Public Radio  

The same vitriolic language pre-war anti-Semites used about Jews is now being used against Muslims in today’s Austria. Both the far right and centrist parties want Jews to join an ‘enlightened’ Judeo-Christian front against the Muslim ‘other’. Read more here