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Welcome to our new episode of Ethnic Policy podcast, where we discuss and discover topics around ethnicities, ethnic conflicts, and minority politics around the world. Ethnic policy is an entity concerned with identity and ethnic related studies.

Despite how ancient the Egyptian civilisation is, defining what makes someone an 'Egyptian' was a contested topic in the 20th century. And while Egypt then had a sizable minority of immigrants from south Europe, multiple theories have offered different explanations to the process of uprooting these communities.
We discuss in this episode with Dr Raphael Cormack, his research work about the early 20th century in Egypt, the several definitions of Egyptian identity, & the ethnic make up of the then sizable immigrant population in Egypt.

Raphael Cormack has a PhD in 20th century Egyptian theatre from the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Midnight in Cairo a forthcoming book about the women of Cairo's early 20th century nightlife, and the editor of two collections of Arabic short stories in translation: The Book of Khartoum and the Book of Cairo.

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Welcome to our new episode of Ethnic Policy podcast, where we discuss and discover topics around ethnicities, ethnic conflicts, and minority politics around the world. Ethnic policy is an entity concerned with identity and ethnic related studies.
In this episode, hosted  by Tarek Ali Ahmed, we discuss with Tobias Hochstöger his solid research over the political landscape in Austria, its ethnic make-up, the differences among political parties ideologies, and the role ethnicity/race/religion plays in such landscape.

Tobias Hochstöger a political scientist from Austria, who did his master at SOAS in International Politics and his bachelor’s at the University of Vienna in Political Science, where he was working a lot on Nazi Germany and Austrian Post war history. You can follow Tobias Hochstöger  here.

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Welcome to our new episode of Ethnic Policy podcast, where we discuss and discover topics around ethnicities, ethnic conflicts, and minority politics around the world. Ethnic policy is an entity concerned with identity and ethnic related studies.

Following the last election in 2007, Belgium went without a government for six months because of the divisions and squabbling between Dutch-speaking Flanders to the north and French-speaking Wallonia in the south. Three years later, the same conflict has brought down the government again.
Language is the fundamental flaw at the core of Belgium's existential crisis, taking on the role that race, religion, or ethnicity play in other conflict-riven societies. The country operates on the basis of linguistic apartheid, which infects everything from public libraries to local and regional government, the education system, the political parties, national television, the newspapers, even football teams.
We discuss in this episode with Dr Jan Blommaert, his early work in Africa, and its model of multilingualism societies. We have also discussed with Dr Blommaert the ethnic divide in Belgium, and future of the country.

Dr Jan Blommaert is a Belgian sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist, Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of the Babylon Center at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is considered to be one of the world's most prominent sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists, and has contributed substantially to sociolinguistic globalization theory, focusing on historical as well as contemporary patterns of the spread of languages and forms of literacy, and on lasting and new forms of inequality emerging from globalization processes. You can follow Dr Blommaert here.

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Welcome to our new episode of Ethnic Policy podcast, where we discuss and discover topics around ethnicities, ethnic conflicts, and minority politics around the world. Ethnic policy is an entity concerned with identity and ethnic related studies.

The use of the country name "Macedonia" was disputed between Greece and Macedonia (now  "North Macedonia") between 1991 and 2019. Pertinent to its background is an early 20th-century multifaceted dispute and armed conflict that formed part of the background to the Balkan Wars. The specific naming dispute was reignited after the breakup of Yugoslavia and the newly gained independence of the former Socialist Republic of Macedonia in 1991.

Since then, it was an ongoing issue in bilateral and international relations until it was settled with the Prespa agreement in June 2018, the subsequent ratification by the Macedonian and Greek parliaments in late 2018 and early 2019, and the official renaming of Macedonia to "North Macedonia" in February 2019.

We discuss in this episode with Dr Biljana Vankovska, the treaty and its implications on identity politics in an already turbulent region, the history of and the statehood of the Republic of "North Macedonia", and the country's aspirations to join the European Union.


Dr Biljana Vankovska is a political scientist and peace researcher; a university professor at Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, the oldest university in Macedonia. You can follow Dr Biljana here.

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Welcome to our new episode of Ethnic Policy podcast, where we discuss and discover topics around ethnicities, ethnic conflicts, and minority politics around the world. Ethnic policy is an entity concerned with identity and ethnic related studies.

September 3rd this year marked the 81st anniversary of the breakout of the second world war. Two days prior to that an exactly on September 1st 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Throughout the war Poland will lose roughly 6 million citizens, half of which were Jews. 6 million are estimated to be 17% of the entire population. Today I discuss with Alina Nowobilska, the horrors of the invasion, the uprisings and the post liberation Poland, from an ethnic studies perspective.

Alina Nowobilska is a historian specializing in Poland during the second World War, co-host of History Hack, and currently writing a book on Poland in World War II. You can find her on Twitter here.

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Welcome to our new episode of Ethnic Policy podcast, where we discuss and discover topics around ethnicities, ethnic conflicts, and minority politics around the world. Ethnic policy is an entity concerned with identity and ethnic related studies.

In 2018, news had surfaced regarding a potential redraw of borders between Serbia and Kosovo; as a part that would see the latter giving up its northern Serb dominated region (North Mitrovica that is), in exchange for Serbia’s Albanian dominated southern region, the Presevo Valley.
Those who are in favour of the deal from both sides, say that it may end a decades long conflict. Whilst others anticipate more unrest, in a region with a recent turbulent history. In this episode, we discuss with Kristiana Kuqi, the land swap proposal, and assess the idea that seems fairly simple and straightforward, yet has much more complications to it.

Kristiana Kuqi is a researcher from Kosovo, living in Washington DC, with two majors in History and Political Science. She is also a historian at Dua.com. You can find her on Twitter here.

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