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Contemporary history live: Assad’s fall and a tuenews workshop

by Wolfgang Sannwald They didn’t sleep at all. Or only for a short time, with their cell phones next to their pillows. The overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria and the last hours of the Assad regime deprived our Syrian colleagues at the tuenews workshops in Heilbronn of sleep. How are family members in Damascus, Aleppo or in the towns near the coast? Are they safe? This weekend belongs to Syria, especially the night from Saturday, December 7th to Sunday, December 8th, 2024. One of the topics on the agenda was the developments in the country. They overwhelmed us.… Read More

From our editorial team – After Solingen…

By Wolfgang Sannwald “As a Syrian Muslim, I condemn such acts in the strongest possible terms. They not only harm innocent victims, but also millions of refugees who are trying to integrate in their new home country“: a tuenews editor posted these lines in the editorial chat shortly after the attack in Solingen. Many refugees and newly naturalized citizens from the Arab cultural area feel personally affected by so-called Islamist terror. All migrants in the editorial team of tuenews INTERNATIONAL condemn the perpetrators who murdered or injured people with knives or guns this year on May 31 in Mannheim, on… Read More

Film screening with discussion: “Being a Refugee”

On Tuesday, February 6, the district of Tübingen invites you to a film screening. At 7.30 pm, the documentary “Being a Refugee” by director Dr. Nurit Carmel will be shown in the main conference room at the district administration office. The film deals with various refugee stories from the past and present and provides an insight into the integration processes. In connection with interreligious perspectives, the film shows the complexity of this topic. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Dr. Nurit Carmel. Admission is free of charge. Please register informally by sending an email to: kultur@kreis-tuebingen.de… Read More

Man-made disasters and the tünews editorial team

By Wolfgang Sannwald Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel and the murder of civilians, earthquake aftermath in Afghanistan, Russia’s mass-murderous missile attack against Ukraine, renewed attacks by Syria’s Assad regime on Idlib: October 7 and 8, 2023 was one of the weekends full of disasters—mainly man-made disasters. At tünews INTERNATIONAL, we strive to provide opinion-free news and reports. We usually succeed because we research and report on what concretely helps refugees living in Germany to cope with their daily lives. But that doesn’t mean we don’t discuss day-to-day political issues—on the contrary. Our editorial meetings provide a protected setting for open… Read More

State promotes app for tünews INTERNATIONAL

The integrative media project tünews INTERNATIONAL, based in Tübingen, will receive project funding totalling 120,000 euros until 2026, the Ministry of Social Affairs of Baden-Württemberg announced in a press release dated 5 September 2023. A total of 29 integration projects have been selected by an expert committee of the state, which will be funded with a total of about two million euros from the funding pot “Integration vor Ort – Stärkung kommunaler Strukturen“. tünews INTERNATIONAL is one of the six projects in the state funded with the maximum amount. This is according to an announcement by the Minister of Social… Read More

Editorial: One year

Wars, conflicts, natural disasters often affect members of the tünews INTERNATIONAL editorial team personally. This has been the case since the launch of our media project in 2015, especially for members of the editorial team from Syria and Afghanistan. And it has been repeated since February 24, 2022, when Russia escalated the war against Ukraine. On July 19, 2022, the first news in Ukrainian appeared on tünews INTERNATIONAL. Two refugee women from Ukraine joined our editorial team. They are in contact with friends and relatives in their regions of origin almost daily via smartphone. To date, we have published 120… Read More

The earthquake in northern Syria and Turkey and tünews INTERNATIONAL

By Wolfgang Sannwald The earthquake in northern Syria and Turkey has hit relatives of tünews INTERNATIONAL employees hard: In the family of a relative many have died, of the members of a family friend only one small child is still alive. At tünews INTERNATIONAL, we are increasingly experiencing how media reports about seemingly distant places bring us closer. This is evident in our editorial meetings, where people are together who come from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Afghanistan or Ukraine. Some of us have been meeting for two hours a week for seven years. For many of them, the connections to… Read More

tünews INTERNATIONAL: Almost like the FAZ for refugees

By Wolfgang Sannwald “So this is practically a national newspaper, like the FAZ.” Baden-Württemberg’s Minister President Winfried Kretschmann did not shy away from big names during his editorial visit to tünews INTERNATIONAL on 16 August 2022, drawing a comparison with the renowned German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. With so much flattery, I could only smile: “Yes, exactly the right comparison, Mr Kretschmann …” However, six more follow-up questions from the head of the Baden-Württemberg government conveyed that we need to explain tünews INTERNATIONAL better. What makes tünews INTERNATIONAL tick cannot simply be described by comparisons, not even by a comparison with… Read More

Editorial: tünews-Ukraine

By Wolfgang Sannwald The German Foundation for Commitment and Volunteering has awarded tünews INTERNATIONAL a grant of 44,650 euros. We had submitted an application for the organisational development of tünews Ukraine. The grant was awarded on 25 August within the framework of the programme “EHRENAMT HILFT GEMEINSAM – ankommen, mitmachen, Gesellschaft gestalten”. At present, we are conducting workshops on the organisational development of tünews INTERNATIONAL. We are preparing structures that will enable us to better serve the information needs of refugees from Ukraine in addition to our existing activities. We have formed a preparatory team for this purpose. This team… Read More

Disinformation about racism towards refugees

By Wolfgang Sannwald The Ukraine war is also an information war. Currently, statements about journalists and politicians in Europe are circulating in social media. They would allegedly say publicly that blue-eyed and blond war victims from Ukraine are much closer to them emotionally than, for example, those from the Arabic or Persian-speaking regions. This is linked to accusations of racism. The “Deutsche Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung” (German Centre for Integration and Migration Research) (DeZIM) investigates developments and trends regarding racism in Germany. It published survey results in its “Nationaler Diskriminierungs- und Rassismusmonitor” (National Discrimination and Racism Monitor) (NaDiRa) on… Read More

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