Tine Danckaers (Belgium) is a senior writer for MO*. She specialises in the Middle East and migration.
Tine regularly travels 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 coexistence. This is true at all times, and it is no different in the Arab world, which was swept by a wave of peaceful popular resistance in 2011. How this warm current turned into chaos and what this means for today's often turbulent societies in the Middle East is something she continues to explore.
Tine has also reported from Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Morocco.
Outside the Arab world, she has reported from Afghanistan, Greece, Germany, Ireland, England, the Netherlands and, of course, her own country.
Tine looks for the people who fall between the cracks of the hard news, who live outside the big systems or who, as victims, are right in the middle of them. Afghan political refugees stuck in Turkey, squatters in Brussels, homeless people in Utrecht, Iraqis returning from a broken future, citizens at odds with the Emir of Bahrain, young Eritreans in Zeebrugge...
