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Michael Bisio hard at work at 5C last night where he played an excellent gig with saxophonist Louie Belogenis. Will upload some sightandsound as soon as I have time. meanwhile, below, the latest sendings...

Our two new features: Mohammed on the “straight path” Did the Prophet Mohammed only become a power-conscious religiouspolitician in Medina, where he emigrated from Mecca in 622? Author ofa new Mohammed biography, Tilman Nagel...

From the Feuilletons Die Welt reveals why a Cinema for Peace gala was really a Cinema forPeace with Putin gala. The taz responds to Recep Erdogan’scontroversial speech in Cologne. Andzrej Wajda speaks about his...

Double life is the drug Kurt von Hammerstein was head of the Reichswehr, a grand seigneur, andan implacable opponent of National Socialism. In his new book“Hammerstein oder Der Eigensinn” (Hammerstein or idiosycrasy), HansMagnus Enzensberger...

Back to Rudi Dutschke’s pram So what was 1968? It was when the children of German mass murderersran after mass murderer Mao Tsedong, says historian and ex-Maoist GötzAly. Absolutely not, says educationalist and author...

If you want some cultural/political news from Europe, keep checking signandsight’s articles. Below, this week’s crop: This week we put two new features online: Don Camillo and the Imam Italy has been slow to...

Banished to the banlieues The Parisian social sciences institutes are being turfed out of theirancestral homes in the city’s most desirable arrondissements andrelocated to Aubervilliers. A bitter pill, but also a chance to turntheory...

Manfred Zapatka in “Hamburg Lessons” © Pantera Film This is somewhat sad news – I had hoped signandsight would expand their coverage rather than contracting it. Still, this is a most useful source of...

Nina Hoss in “Yella” (photo courtesy Schramm Film Koerner & Weber) This past week signandsight put three new features online: Under the sign of half truth The dawn of a new era in Central...