The land of blackness is the land of palm trees
by Sameer Ibrahim Iraq is considered one of the countries with the most palm trees in the world, with around 22 million palm trees. Historians say that the cultivation of date palms…
The bandura: an instrument of Ukrainian identity
By Yana Rudenko The Ukrainian bandura is a lute-like instrument with up to 65 strings, including up to eight melody strings and many accompanying strings. It resembles both a lute and a…
Science in exile: An evening on the situation of Ukrainian researchers and students
By Yana Rudenko The living conditions of Ukrainian researchers and students in exile were the focus of an event in the historical reading room of Tübingen University Library at the end of…
Why Arabic calligraphy is art, culture and identity at once
By Oula Mahfouz Calligraphy or calligraphy literally means “the art of beautiful writing”. The term comes from the Greek and is made up of “kalos” for beautiful and “graphein” for writing. According…
News from LUCA, the ancestor of all living creatures
Evolutionary biology assumes that all organisms living today have a common ancestor. This is because today’s organisms have many similarities, including the fact that they use the same genetic code. An international…
The Kufiya: A cultural heritage between tradition and resistance
By Oula Mahfouz The kufiya, known in Germany as the “Palestinian scarf”, has become particularly topical in Berlin as a result of the war in Gaza. In October 2023, the education administration…
Ammertalbahn ends in Tübingen
From mid-December, trains on the Ammertalbahn will only run between Tübingen and Herrenberg. Anyone wishing to travel to Bad Urach via Reutlingen will therefore have to change trains in Tübingen from December…
How to become an election official?
The “traffic light coalition“ of SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens and FDP in Berlin has broken up. Currently, SPD and Greens are forming a minority government. The date for new elections to the…
Be careful with mobile hunts: Autumn is the main season
Autumn is the main season for the so-called mobile hunting of deer and wild boar. In the hunting grounds, there are warning signs and barrier tape that should be observed and the…
“A femicide almost every day”: more and more violence against women
By Ute Kaiser “Every three minutes, a woman or girl in Germany experiences domestic violence”: This was stated by Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser at a press conference. And: there…
BAföG grant to help you start your studies
From the winter semester 2024/25, those eligible for BAföG in Baden-Württemberg will have the opportunity to apply for a one-time study start-up grant of 1,000 euros. This funding is specifically intended for…
Deutschlandfunk visits tuenews
By Bernhard Kirschner ‘It’s great what you’re doing here.’ Katharina Thoms, a reporter for Deutschlandfunk, was impressed by the work of tuenews INTERNATIONAL. She had visited the editorial team at the Tübingen…
Learning German: Lobna has reached C1 level
She still remembers her first German word well. „That was ‘tschüss’,“ says Lobna Alhindi. One of the volunteers from the circle of friends in Poltringen said goodbye to her like that. „He…
The oldest stone tools in Europe discovered in Ukraine
By Yana Rudenko In the Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia, stone tools around 1.4 million years old have been found at the Palaeolithic site of Korolevo near the village of the same name….
Gravestones: a global tradition that originated in the Middle East
By Youssef Kanjou It is not known exactly when and why people first began to make what is now known as a gravestone: a piece of stone on which a person’s name…
Living national history – spectacular Ukrainian finds
David Firschau and Yana Rudenko The Great State Exhibition in Stuttgart “The Hidden Land“provides a fascinating insight into the history of Baden-Württemberg in the 1st millennium AD. Finds from the state and…
About the oldest Christian churches in Syria
By Youssef Kanjou Today, Syria is a country with a Muslim majority; in pre-Islamic times, most of the region’s inhabitants were Christians. As a result, Syria is home to some of the…
Celts in the southwest
By Bernhard Kirschner 2600 years ago, the Celts ruled the southwest of Germany. One of their centers was the Heuneburg above the Danube near Sigmaringen. The Celts had trade links as far…