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Speakers: Please find the list of speakers here.

Conference languages: The conference will be held in German and English. There will be a simultaneous interpretation of all the lectures and discussions, cordless headphones will be available.

Registration: Registration is necessary. It is still possible to register. Please register by sending an email with your name, adress and phone number to conference@mideastfreedomforum.org.

Catering: Food as well as hot and cold drinks will be provided.

Contribution: 15 € (promotion price 40 €, reduced price 10 €)
This includes participation, simultaneous translation, food and drinks.

More information will follow soon.

The Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin supports the protest against the Islamic and anti-Semitic Al-Quds-day in Berlin. The protest will take place on September 12, 2.00 p.m., on the crossing of Knesebeckstr./Kurfürstendamm (near U1 Uhlandstr.). More Informationen can be found here.

The Persian version of the call for protests can be found here.

Stop the Islamic Republics propaganda – No Al-Quds day!

Annually, an ideological march is organised in Teheran by the "Islamic Republic of Iran" to celebrate the so-called Al-Quds day. At the same time, demonstrations are organized by Hezbollah in Beirut and by Hamas in Gaza, and the fundamentalist ideology of the Islamic Republic is propagated by rallies taking place worldwide. During the Al-Quds demonstration in Berlin, demonstrators have repeatedly made use of symbols pertaining to terrorist organisations.

Audio documentation of the event with Prof. Dr. Ingo Hofmann, Javad Asadian, Jörg Rensmann and a greeting by Lala Süsskind, Head of the Jewish Community in Berlin:

Three day workshop in the ABC Education- and Meeting-Center in Hüll (near Hamburg) with Ali Schirasi, Solale Schirasi, Sebastian Voigt, Henning Wötzel-Herber and Jonathan Weckerle. More informationen and the possibility to register can be found here.

University Halle: Panel discussion with Dr. Matthias Küntzel, Dr. Frederek Musall, Prof. Dr. Ralf Elger and Jonathan Weckerle.

„The timebomb ist ticking. Will the international community still be able to prevent Iran's reach for the bomb? Berlin is especially in the front line of this conflict: Germany has together with the five veto powers of the Security Council been entrusted to lead the negotiations with Iran and has a special responsibility to confront a regime that denies the Holocaust. At the same time Germany is still the by far most important trade partner and the prefered partner for dialogue of the Mullahs in the West."

 The event took place on March 4 in Berlin. Please find more information here. The greeting is in German language, the introduction of Amir Taheri and his speech are in English.

Panel discussion on May 24 2009 at 11.00 am at the Centrum Judaicum, Oranienburger Straße 28-30, 10117 Berlin. 

Speakers are MP Kristina Köhler (CDU), Secretary of State (ret.) Klaus Faber (Coordination Council of German NGO’s against anti-Semitism) and Jörg Rensmann (Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin).

Anti-Semitism has consolidated in Germany at a high level. There are indicators for a significant growing attendance to express anti-Jewish resentments publicly.

New forms of hostility towards Jews have just recently come out, whereas particularly the hostility against Israel or the anti-Zionist anti-Semitism is to be emphasized. Anti-Semitism is not only to be found along with radically right-wing political actors, left anti-Zionists and "anti-imperialists". It is also an important motive of Islamism. Who are the supporters of this delusional world view in Germany? Have civil society and scientific institutions reacted adequately to the new and old challenges up to now? What could a promising strategy be?

The panel discussion about these and other relevant questions of the context takes place in cooperation with Scholars for Peace in the Middle East – German section (SPME), the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin (MFFB), the Jewish Forum for Democracy and against anti-Semitism (JFDA), the Coordination Council of German NGOs against anti-Semitism and Honestly Concerned. The panel discussion is moderated by Ulrike Becker of the campaign Stop the Bomb.

Freedom in Place of the Islamic Republic!

For a secular and democratic Iran –
Against any support for the Iranian Mullah-Regime!

Berlin, Hackescher Markt, April 1

From 11am on: Infotable and Films about Iran on Videowall

5pm: Manifestation with speeches

„The Liberation Movement of Iranian Women – Year Zero“

A Historical Document from Iran on the Occasion of the International Women’s Day on the 8th of March

By Fathiyeh Naghibzadeh

On the 7th of March 1979, only weeks after the revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini ordered that women should only be allowed to enter public buildings dressed with a headscarf. After this – and on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on the 8th of March that year - there were numerous demonstrations against mandatory veiling. As a direct result of these demonstrations, the Islamists were forced to rescend their order, if only temporarily.

„The Liberation Movement of Iranian Women – Year Zero“ is the title of a film made by women of the French Politics and Psychoanalysis Group in 1979 in Iran. The film sought to convey the message of these Iranian women: „Freedom is neither an eastern nor a western concept – it is universal“.

Lecture and discussion with Amir Taheri (journalist and author, London)

Date: Wednesday, March 4 2009, 8 p.m.
Venue: Werkstatt der Kulturen, Wissmannstraße 32, Berlin-Neukölln, U7/U8 Hermannplatz, Map.
Simultaneous translation will be available

30 years of Islamic Republic of Iran stand not only for dictatorship and terror, but also for 3 decades of failed Iran policy of the West. While the tyranny in Iran – the persecution of the opposition, women, independent labor unions, religious and ethnic minorities – continues, the enforced nuclear program makes the regime an daily growing international threat. Atomic weapons would not only pose an existential threat to Israel, but would also lead to an arms race in the crisis-ridden Middle East and would strengthen radical Islamic forces worldwide. The extensive Iranian support for Hamas and Hizbollah already aims at the annihilation of Israel and the spreading of the Islamic revolution.