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Now in its tenth year, the international Euro-Arab film festival is one of the biggest showcases for Arab audiovisual work in Spain. The event awakens the audience's awareness of this film type to a level which more than matches the big film premieres of European cinema

A stone’s throw from Genk and Hasselt, there is a ‘gated community’ which purports to be the ‘most luxurious residence in Belgium’. Built like an armoured holiday village, the residence is home to the well-off, and rich, paranoid businessmen. In this gilded prison, fear and luxury go hand in hand

The image of the French suburbs or 'banlieues' is still bound up with images from the 2005 riots. The ACLEFEU association, which won votes from famous French rappers in a campaign during the May 2012 French presidential elections, is tackling political apathy among young people in the banlieues

Historically, women’s boxing was recognised for the first time at the 2012 London Olympic games. In one of the most queer and women-friendly capitals of Europe, the Lowkick association offers sex-segregated combat sport and self-defence classes for transgender women, though mainly cis-gender women attend. Defined as a 'feminist' project, we explore further

Renata Pylarinoy from the Athens University of Economics and Business writes about the Global Community Development Program aiesec.gr

Last March I had the opportunity to be a volunteer in a foreign country with AIESEC’S Global Community Development Program. My decision to participate in this, proved the best decision I've ever made. As soon as I was informed about these programs nothing could keep me from applying! It was something new and exciting that I definitely wanted to try!

That’s how I got to my dear and beloved Serbia. A country that under other conditions I wouldn’t have the chance to know, a country that I loved very much and now I feel like a second home. A country with such a common history with our own, with warm and hospitable people, with beautiful and unique landscapes.

Once a poor part of Berlin during the late 1970s, today the combined region of Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain is a core cultural centre of the German capital. The area still suffers from a high unemployment rate and risks an increase of high-rise housing along the river, making it a hub of political and social activism

By Aris Kokkinos and Jan Nils Schubert

On November 6th, as part of the "Turkey Insights" debates, the EPC think tank and the TUSKON confederation invited three speakers to discuss the current situation in Turkey, to consider its future and to respond several questions, including the main one: what lane should Turkey take in these overall testing times?

Since 2011 (avant-gardistes will argue 2010), the English slang expression ‘swag’, which is used to lift the term ‘cool’ a little higher, has been used in France at an alarming rate

A child of the eurogeneration, Miriam Gamble was born in Brussels but grew up in Belfast. Her first book ‘The Squirrels Are Dead’ was published in 2010 and she’s now working on a second collection. Listen to her reading some of her work here

Thousands of Turks who went to Germany 50 years ago to work in factories settled down, their juniors opening markets and restaurants offering a great variety of Turkish food. Berlin has a population of over 300, 000 people of Turkish origin, and these first- and second-generation immigrants confirm that it is not so hard to cook traditional meals with German products

Angus Stone has left his sister Julia, and is back with a solo album which recalls the good old Woodstock days, albeit bathed in an instagram filter, stamping it with that hipster-compatible mark. Despite the impressive instrumental talent, the good-looking Australian is more Dawson's Creek than Bob Dylan

Russia: Putin feeds Obama whilst a leather boot fans the flames. Italy: whilst Obama becomes president, Berlusconi serves his escort a hot drink. Germany: Merkel cooks brekkie for hubby: a round-up of European politicians' breakfast stories in the news, plus a pancake recipe for the bimonthly gastronomy column