Category - Opinion

Professor Christian Reder At a time when it was already becoming clear that dictatorships in Europe were heading towards a new war, two young Swiss women, Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942) and Ella Maillart (1903-1997), who had already undertaken...

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Rudyard Kipling, Robert Byron

Professor Christian Reder “The fact that the globally influential Sufi poet Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) originated from Balkh near Mazar-e Sharif in the...

THE ROUTE TO ESCALATING VIOLENCE

Professor Christian Reder Since Turkey, a young country, has been focussing on republicanism (supporting power resting with the people), secularism (rejecting...

Afghanistan & Austria

Professor Christian Reder Invited by the online magazine Silk Way to contribute to this commentary series—because Afghanistan has occupied my life for...