The Situation in Syria and Iraq

The last panel will address a more current issue. While previous panels focused on how past crimes are being addressed through artistic, legal or social means, we will now turn to the ongoing crimes against humanity being committed in Syria and Iraq, a topic that has become even more close to Europe with the arrival of refugees from this region.
Together with exiled writer Rosa Yassin Hassan and human rights activist and lawyer Anwar al-Bounni, we want to discuss what can be gained by “addressing” or “exposing” a war that is still ongoing and what potential approaches could be pursued.

The Berlin-based Iraqi writer Najem Wali will then read some of his work (Baghdad Marlboro) in which he addresses not only the crimes under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, but also the reactions of the Western military powers to the Kuwait invasion in 1991 and the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the US-led military coalition.
Martin Glasenapp, formerly Middle East advisor at the NGO Medico International will discuss what the conflict in the Middle East means for Germany. The aim is to discuss possible (foreign policy or even military) responses from Germany and the international community to crimes such as those happening in Syria or Iraq.