Mey Dudin
Journalist
News, background, features
German politics and the Arab world
Has worked in news journalism for more than twenty years. Lives in Berlin and writes about German federal politics for the Rheinische Post. Formerly a journalist at various news agencies.
Political correspondent for the Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd) until the end of 2023. Reported from Cairo, Istanbul, Tunis and Athens between 2011 and 2018 – most of the time as a dpa correspondent. Before 2011, federal political correspondent at the news agency dapd. Traineeship at the news agency ddp.
About me
When my Palestinian father moved to Beirut with my German mother and me, I was three.
It was 1977 and there was a civil war in Lebanon that was getting worse from year to year: Palestinians were fighting Israelis, Christians were fighting Muslims and countless factions were fighting each other. We moved to a housing estate that was located between a Palestinian camp, a golf course and three barracks. We lived there until 1984.
When the war made everyday life impossible, my mother moved with my sister and me, first to Holland and then to Germany.
I did my A-levels in Heidelberg and went to Berlin to study history and communication sciences.
I then completed a traineeship at ddp.
After that I worked for ten years, mainly in Berlin for news agencies.
After spending time in Arab countries, Greece and Turkey, I am once again working as a political correspondent in Berlin – but I still have my eye on the Arab world.
When the Arab Spring hit Egypt after Tunisia in January 2011, I traveled to Cairo to write about it.
I then decided to focus my journalistic work on the Arab world. I reported on the Arabs and their crisis-ridden region for six years.
A selection of my work
You can find current texts by me on my author page of the Rheinische Post.
Book publication
Arab socialism: Between Marx and Mohammed
Fifty years ago, it was fashionable among intellectuals and students in the Arab world to call themselves socialists.
Today, socialist movements are meaningless there. A civil war is raging in Syria, Egypt is shaken by crises and the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites is escalating in Iraq.
The Palestinian, contemporary witness and left-wing activist Hasan M. Dudin wrote this analysis of the developments in the Arab world at the time in 1976 – a text that is still relevant forty years later. It describes the ideas of socialism at that time and at the same time provides explanations for the present.
Dudin describes why religious currents have always been particularly strong in Egypt, how the racism of the Baath Party in Iraq – especially against the Kurds – drove the division of society there and how a minority took over the reins of government in Syria and ruled over a dissenting majority from then on – the party of Bashar al-Assad.
Contact us
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