Michael Braun
Die Tageszeitung
Franco Cardini
Italian Institute of Human Sciences
Tonia Mastrobuoni
correspondent La Repubblica
In dealing with the refugee emergency and the terrorist threats of the Islamic State, narratives which center on invasion and a clash of civilizations are unhelpful. In this way, complex historical, economic, religious and geo-political phenomena are subsumed into superficial prejudices that simply spread fear. Yet specific interests are at play and a historic shift is taking place between the West and the Middle East.