Esra Arsan 12 July 2021
What are the spaces for alternative journalism in AKP’s Turkey? And what should “alternative” to the mainstream media mean, really?
freedom
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- Gülcin Balamir Coskun 12 July 2021How does Turkey’s regulation on digital contents contribute to shape the country’s (oppressed) media landscape?
- 15 May 2018These are the videos taken during the Conference Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism in October 2017.
- 9 February 2016Is there an “Islamic State”? And can religiosity exist without freedom? No!, claims Islamic theologian Adnane Mokrani from Rome’s PISAI Institute and gives a political and historical explanation of why a secular State represents a real opportunity of religious freedom for Muslims
- 16 September 2013A harsh cultural and diplomatic controversy had been ongoing for months between Poland and Israel, caused by the Polish Constitutional Court’s ban on slaughtering animals following the kosher rituals as of January 1. According to the judges, this traditionally Jewish practice is incompatible with the protection of animal rights, and slaughtering must therefore take place when the animal is “stunned” and hence unconscious.
- 25 January 2013The Doha Centre for Media Freedom is an organization founded in 2008 with the political and financial support – a 4 million dollar annual budget – of Mozah bint el Misnid, the Emir of Qatar’s powerful wife. Its objective: to assist journalists whose lives are in danger and promote media freedom from the heart of the Persian Gulf. For two years Jan Keulen is at its head. Dutch, class of 1950 and a life spent as a Middle East correspondent for Volkskrant daily newspaper. This is certainly not a simple task because prior to fighting for journalistic and media freedom in the world, Qatar, Al Jazeera’s homeland, finds itself fighting against its own same contradictions: a forty year old press law, a marked attitude of self-censorship by local media and a closure towards freedom of expression by the country’s more conservative fringes. Unsurprisingly, the Doha Centre’s former director, Robert Ménard, founder of Reporters without Borders was accused by the Qatari press of having invited “the Devil in person”, Flemming Rose, director of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that published the infamous satirical cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in 2005, to Doha. Ménard denied this incident in his book Mirages et Cheikhs en Blanc. According to the French journalist this was just a pretext to be rid of an uncomfortable presence for some elements of the country’s ruling class. In 2009, in fact, little more than a year after the Doha Centre’s inauguration, Ménard handed in his resignations
