Today starts the very promising conference "Where is the Middle East heading? Ethno-religious minorities between persecution and self-determination" at the European Academy in Berlin. The very promising program features many household names as speakers including Shlomo Aveneri (political science professor and once director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and scholars whose work was already mentioned on this blog like Thomas Scheffler, Birgit Schäbler and Friederike Stolleis. I will present a paper myself about the current situation of the Druze on Tuesday. The whole conference can also be viewed via livestream .
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