with Maurus Reinkowski   A cartoon from “The Daily Express”, 27.09.1922,  just a few days after the Great Fire of Smyrna and one month before the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire The current conflicts and humanitarian crisis in states like Syria and Iraq have raised the question of a dissolving political order in the Middle … Continue reading #013 – The return of the Near East? A perspective on the Arab World, Turkey, and Southeast Europe