Contributed by Benjamin Bruce
22 August 2010 The Editions de l’Aire will soon be publishing a French translation of Zurich author Daniel Groetsch’s novel Ben Kader. The novel shifts between Algiers in 1957 and Zurich in 2001, and explores the contrasts between father and son, adopted and assumed identities, Eastern and Western cultures, Islam and Christianity. Ben Kader himself…
17 August 2010 The Federal Commission against Racism (CFR) has published its 2009 report, and according to the president of the commission, Georg Kreis, the political climate was reflected in the incident reported. Recent comments by the German Finance Minister led to indignation among Swiss in general, and a feeling that they had all been…
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has called for a moratorium on the Swiss minaret ban during a debate on Islam, Islamism, and Islamophobia in Europe. The recommendation was passed with the unanimous support of the entire assembly, including that of all the Swiss representatives, even André Bugnon, who had earlier supported the…
A Hockey Academy is to be established in Amsterdam for young unemployed Dutch Moroccans. The training is intended for those aged 17-26 who have no work, in order to train them for a future with the Moroccan hockey team. Full time training occurs for 5-6 hours a day, 5 days a week. Ultimately, the initiative…
The Fethullah Gülen movement has been growing in influence across the world, and that includes Switzerland. The Sera School, opened in August 2009, was portrayed only a few months later by the magazine Beobachter as a questionable organization linked to Gülen’s network, which was promoting the creation of a parallel society in Switzerland. The Sera…
