Ansar Jasim studied politics and economics of North Africa and West Asia in Marburg and London. She is engaged with solidarity within civil society from a theoretical and a pragmatic perspective, especially in Syria and Iraq.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.