In this essay I examine the effects that the experience of migration has on memory and how this matter is portrayed in two movies directed by the Turkish German film director, screenwriter and producer Fatih Akin. His parents, originally from the Trabzon Region in Turkey, moved to Germany in the […]

Sigmund Freud in his New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis quotes ‘when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is ‘male or female?’’ Therefore, is it possible to make a binary distinction with ‘unhesitating uncertainty’ or do the gender and sexual identity have a deeper meaning and less […]

This essay aims to give a better understanding of the extremely complex concept of Islam that nowadays seems to be the centre of an articulated dispute arisen after the horrific attacks of 9/11. The first chapter analyses the meaning of Islam commencing from the etymological roots to the study of […]

Trauma, as Ann Cvetkovich states in her essay An Archive of feelings is the ‘subject of a discourse that has a history’. In fact, in the nineteenth century trauma referred to a physical wound and become later on in the century associated to mental and physic distress. Thanks to the […]

“Our girls are there to perform sex and 20,30 even 100 men take turns with them and they return here, bearing the fruits of these sexual contacts, this so-called Sexual Jihad ”. Those are some of the deep words pronounced by the Tunisian Minister of Interior Lotfi Ben Jeddou, in […]

Every day millions of Muslim women suffer from men’s abuse and violence in their private lives or even in public circumstances in the worst of the cases. Whoever has heard about the terrible murder of Farkhunda who was beaten to death in a frenzied attack sparked by a false accusation […]

A Promising Start On June 15, 2013 Hassan Rouhani was elected as President Of Iran succeeding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presenting himself as a moderate and pragmatic politician. During his campaign preceding his electoral victory, Rouhani presented and promised a well-structured plan that included a “Civil Rights Charter”. The Charter prioritised personal freedom and free access […]