My “veil story” was the most prominent topic everyone tried to remind me of using when speaking of “my cards”, that I should use it to tear loose of the “Anti-semitism” label some of the German media was trying to ascribe to me. My friends, colleagues and acquaintances thought this…

My exchange for around a week in Berlin was extremely challenging. It was the first time I was faced with a deep questioning of my beliefs and the Germans' beliefs surrounding me, us, and our region. In 2013, I came to Berlin in the second part of an exchange after…

Working for more than eight years in political pan Arab journalism and more than four years from Germany made me understand "women's" professional life, especially in the media world. I am a Palestinian Jordanian, writing and analyzing politics with a big mouth, and to add to that already provoking combination…

I have been blessed with much compassion and support from tens of colleagues, acquaintances and friends the minute Süddeutsche Zeitung’s report was published, and the attack began. Calls, invitations for coffee or a walk, but most importantly, a lot of good advice. Through sensing the fear, hearing the uncertainty in…

Being “Pro Islamic State or Daesh” was one of the most awkward things I never imagined I would be accused of, and I guess was behind Deutsche Welle’s decision to appoint an external investigator with an “Anti-radicalisation” background to investigate in my case. That was because one of the sentences…

It is so odd to be addressed in the German media in the same way I have been addressed in many brutal social media attacks in Jordan. …

It was a normal workday at Deutsche Welle when I got an email from a journalist in “Süddeutsche Zeitung” asking me if I wanted to comment on three sentences he picked up from old articles that look criticizing to Israel. The sentences were from an ironic column I wrote that…

“Collateral damage” is how my lawyer insisted on referring to me since the “scandal of Deutsche Welle” set off when I was included in Süddeutsche Zeitung’s allegations attacking the Arabic service. The said allegations mainly claimed that a couple of colleagues and I were Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israel, and were formulated…

وزير الخارجية ماس يواجه بالانتقادات ونظرة سياسيي برلين لـ “أقدم ديمقراطية غربية” تهتز.. ترقّب وحذر في أكبر اقتصادات أوروبا مع طلائع انتخابات “بلا ميركل” وخشية كبرى من ارتدادات أحداث الكابيتول (تحليل سياسي) عرّت التصريحات السياسية لوزير الخارجية الألماني هايكو ماس الإشكالية الحقيقية داخل السياسيين الألمان تجاه الولايات المتحدة الألمانية، إذ تزايدت الانتقادات عليه من الحزب المسيحي الديمقراطي الشريك بالائتلاف الحاكم في ألمانيا وكذلك من حزب الخضر.