Mey Dudin
Journalist
Covering German Politics
More than 20 years of work experience as a political news correspondent for German media. Currently, covering German Politics for the daily newspaper Rheinische Post in Berlin.
Before, reported for German news agencies about German politics. Between 2011 and 2018 covered all the major developments in the Middle East and North Africa from Cairo, Istanbul and Tunis as well as the refugee crisis from Athens, Greece.
About me
When my Palestinian father moved to Beirut with my German mother and me, I was three years old.
It was 1977, and Lebanon was in the throes of a civil war that was getting worse every year: Palestinians were fighting Israelis, Christians were fighting Muslims, and countless splinter groups were fighting each other. We moved into a housing estate 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, then to Germany.
I completed my high school diploma in Heidelberg and then moved to Berlin to study history and communication sciences.
I then completed an internship at ddp.
After that, I worked for news agencies, mainly in Berlin, for ten years.
Following stays in Arab countries, Greece, and Turkey, I am now working again as a political correspondent for a news agency in Berlin—but I still keep an eye on the Arab world.
When the Arab Spring spread from Tunisia to Egypt in January 2011, I traveled to Cairo to write about it.
I then decided to focus my journalism on the Arab world. I reported on the Arabs and their crisis-ridden region for six years.
A selection of my current work (German)
You can find current texts by me on my author page of the Rheinische Post.
Book (German language)
Arab Socialism: Between Marx and Muhammad
Fifty years ago, Socialist ideas have inspired many intellectuals and students in the Arab world. Today, socialist movements are meaningless, religious movements have taken over.
In 1976, the Palestinian journalist and leftist activist, Hasan M. Dudin, has written this analysis about political developments in the Arab world. It is an analysis which remains highly topical even 40 years later.
Dudin describes why religious tendencies in Egypt have always been strong, how the racism of the Baath party in Iraq – especially against the Kurds – tore the country apart, and how a minority came into power in Syria.
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