Along with Berlin Review and the ECCHR, HAU brings together legal and historical perspectives: Israeli genocide researcher Omer Bartov and Palestinian international law expert Ahmed Abofoul, who hails from Gaza, look back on the situation in Gaza since October 7, 2023, and discuss how and when massive violence becomes genocide. An encounter between history and the present, memory and law.

»The license that Israel, the land of victims, has long enjoyed and abused may be coming to an end,« wrote the Israeli-American Holocaust and genocide researcher Omer Bartov in April 2025 during the hunger blockade of Gaza. In an interview with »Berlin Review« editor Tobias Haberkorn, historian Omer Bartov talks about the extraordinary consequences of October 7 and the destruction of Gaza on the moral order of the world.

Political scientist Daniel Marwecki, author of The World After the West and Absolution? Israel and the German State Reason, F.A.Z. publisher Jürgen Kaube and Berlin Review publisher Tobias Haberkorn discuss Germany’s self-conception, the particular relationship with Israel and the geopolitical situation after the terrorist attack of October 7, the destruction of Gaza, and the possible genocide of the Palestinians.

Arab Gangster Queen, Rache als Ermächtigung, Performances, die sich vom Doomscrolling kaum noch unterscheiden. An extremer Gewalt und an ihrer Darstellung in den Medien und Künsten herrscht derzeit kein Mangel. Wozu da noch Texte schreiben?

Niemand mag es, kritisiert zu werden — doch alle gieren nach Kritik. Für unseren Reader 4 hat der Schriftsteller Clemens J. Setz sich mit dem vermutlich produktivsten Buch- und Produkt-Reviewer aller Zeiten beschäftigt …

“I am a force of the Past,” Pier Paolo Pasolini once famously wrote, affirming tradition and remembrance against ruthless modernization. Today, with new ruins rising, the question of who gets to define historical truth grows more pressing by the day.

What we can learn from Frantz Fanon’s defence of violence—80 years after WW2 ended, and the Algerian decolonial war began? Join us for an evening of readings and discussion with Fanon biographer Adam Shatz, writer Emilia Roig and historian Joseph Ben Prestel

Clara Miranda Scherffig, Maxi Wallenhorst, Birthe Mühlhoff, Frederik Tidén, and the Editors of Berlin Review take down recent books, movies, and exhibitions.

Readings, conversations, and a Q&A

Der Print-Launch der Berlin Review

Berlin Review has launched as a new magazine for books and ideas in February 2024. Along with our regular online and print editions, we’ve been hosting a talk series on criticism and literary journalism since the fall of 2023. Listen in on our past conversations at our audio page.

Berlin Review has launched as a new magazine for books and ideas in February 2024. Along with our regular online and print editions, we’ve been hosting a talk series on criticism and literary journalism since the fall of 2023. Listen in on our past conversations at our audio page.