Tine Danckaers is a senior writer at MO*. Her expertise lies in the Middle East & migration.
Tine travels regularly to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Turkey, and Iraq—places that hold a special place in her heart.
People and states can make or break living together. It is a timeless phenomenon, and it is no different in the Arab world, over which a wave of peaceful popular resistance swept in 2011. She is keen to continue investigating how that warm current turned into chaos and what that means for the current, often turbulent societies in the Middle East.
Tine has also produced reports in Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan, and Morocco.
Outside the Arab region, she has produced reports in Afghanistan, Greece, Germany, Ireland, England, the Netherlands, and, of course, in her own country.
Tine seeks out the people who fall between the cracks of hard news, who live outside the major systems, or who are caught right in the middle of them as victims. Afghan political refugees stuck in Turkey, young squatters in Brussels, homeless people in Utrecht, Iraqis returning from a shattered vision of the future, citizens at odds with the Emir of Bahrain, young Eritreans in Zeebrugge...
Tine is taking podcast courses.
Contact (also for lectures, participation in debates/discussions, and public interviews): tine.danckaers@mo.be
