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منذ 22 يونيو، 2026
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"Once you've seen and felt the Islamophobia at that level, you can't unsee it. Which really sucks." After 15 years, a 300-euro WG at Hermannplatz, deep roots in civil society, and even getting German citizenship, writer Zara Rahman packed up and left Berlin. Why? What makes someone walk away fro…

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Die Linke won the Berlin state elections for the first time last week. In another historic first, their leader Elif Eralp could become the first mayor of Turkish descent. But the backlash is here. The impact of these kinds of electoral firsts can be hard to make out in the immediate aftermath, an…

Behind the scenes at HEIST

How do the editors at HEIST choose what news and features we publish? In this episode, founding editors Ruthie Weissmann and Peter Matthews talk to Ben Schuman-Stoler about how they run the editorial side of things at HEIST. They talk about some of their favorite Berlin animal stories, stories tha…
Germany is the biggest donor of Palestinian support organization UNRWA, a UN organization that supports healthcare, education, and infrastructure for Palestinians. Yet increasingly, this position has come under attack. Why? Our guest this episode is researcher, filmmaker, and strategist Alon Sahar…
“National narratives tell you what you must not say.” In this episode, Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah joins HEIST founding editor Peter Matthews. Gurnah challenges history from a European perspective. To him, the idea of European centers is not just an oversight, but a kind of blindness. Hi…

From Electric Cars to Tanks

Reporter Lea Fauth on repurposing factories for Germany’s arms industry Would you keep your job if it meant switching to producing weapons? That’s the dilemma facing workers in Görlitz and Osnabrück, where factories that for generations proudly built trains and electric vehicles are being repurpose…

How high would you get?

Writer Lily Johnston on her weekend at Berlin’s new psychedelic expo What happens when psychedelic drugs meet networking? We sent writer Lily Johnston to TRYP Expo, Berlin's new festival for "human flourishing.” She explored the free samples, high-frequency strobe lights, vibrating rings and suppl…
On whether Elon Musk really "went crazy," and the neoliberal roots of the far-right. People always ask,”What happened to Elon? When did he go crazy?” But maybe we have the wrong measure of madness. If Musk did go mad, he’s been rewarded massively for that madness by the market. His erratic, drug-…

LGBTAfD

Historian Ben Miller on the use and abuse of queer politics by the German far-right and the disturbing rise of homonationalism. When an AfD candidate was criticized for referencing a concentration camp badge on a campaign billboard, the party’s defense was immediate: "How dare you accuse us of bein…
Journalist Yossi Bartal on the Al-Mashhadani case In November 2025, Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani, the "Professor Doctor" director of a German-Arabic school in Neukölln, claimed he had been shoved toward a moving U-Bahn train by a keffiyeh-wearing attacker. There was just one problem: CCTV footage showe…
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