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Euro-Mediterranean Academy for Young Journalists in Amsterdam (Netherlands)

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• Vox pops from Amsterdam

  Saturday 15. of November 2008

  How do people from the Meda region view Europe and vice versa? Six participants of the Euro-Mediterranean Academy for Young Journalists (EMAJ) share their views with Orangelog.

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• Editorial

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  Nasry Esmat, member of the EMAJ 2009 organizing team, talks about the strengths of the Academy's concept and network.

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• Unseen: Irregular migrants in the Netherlands

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  Between 75.000 and 150.000 irregular migrants live in the Netherlands today. In the past two decades the country has strengthened its immigration policy, increasing the pressure on asylum-seekers and irregular migrants to leave...

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• Integration and radical Islam in the Netherlands

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  How to integrate the new immigrants into Dutch society? Why it is so hard and how come some people on both sides turn radical? Since September 11, 2001, the magic Dutch integration experiment has gone through some changes.

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• A long way to go for Dutch Muslim Party

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  The new Dutch Muslim Party (NMP) aims to be a political haven for Muslims with different backgrounds. Coming November, the NMP wants to challenge Geert Wilders, the Dutch popular anti-Islamic politician, in his own backyard of...

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• Exposed body, hidden face

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  When most tourists come to Amsterdam and get a map in their hands, the first thing they do is spotting where the Red Light District is. Although the city is packed with tourist sites and beautiful scenes, the sex pleasure...

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• Something more than an office cleaner

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  This June, children from Amsterdam’s IMC Weekendschool acted out a crisis situation: what would they do if Amsterdam were flooded? As a big surprise for the children, the mayor of Amsterdam - with the city’s symbolic chain around...

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• Right in the middle

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  Despite a mayor with a migrant background, a close look at Rotterdam reveals a city torn between right wing parties and organizations for migrants. But a closer look shows that everyone is aiming for the same goal.

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• And they lived happily ever after!

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  Driven by romantic incentives like “love is blind” or “love is worth everything we pay”, soul mates from different cultures and religions cross all boundaries for a brand new start, full of challenges. These challenges become...

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• House squatting, the right of living together

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  The squatting movement has created a new way of living as it gathers people of different nationalities under the same ceiling and provides a precious chance to live in a melting pot where all differences and stereotyped ideas...

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• Halal… inclusion or seclusion?

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  Riding the wave of the expanding global halal market industry - estimated to have reached a worth of US$ 580 billion in 2008 - communication arts company KasehDia will hold this November the first World Halal Forum in Europe. As...

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• The secret to EMAJ’s success

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  Terrorism, xenophobia, clash of civilisations… Those are some of the topics one might associate with intercultural dialogue between the West and the East. But the participants of the second edition of the Euro-Mediterranean...

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• Running with a fever

  Thursday 29. of October 2009

  TVN journalist and EMAJ guest speaker Maciej Woroch talks about intercultural journalism, responsibility, personal commitment and “freaky sensations” in his work as a war correspondent.

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• “I don't know whether I lost my way or not”

  Friday 30. of October 2009

  I recognized him the first time I saw him parking his car in front of the Goethe Institute in Amsterdam. I don't know why, but inside me I was sure that he is an Egyptian, maybe his facial features led me to believe so.

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• I take home from this event…

  Friday 30. of October 2009

  The EMAJ participants share what they will take home with them from the event.

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