Author: Carolin Kubo

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Islamic theologian Sheikha Halima Krausen (photo: Carolin Kubo)

Interview with Sheikha Halima Krausen

″Women do the real work!″

Sheikha Halima Krausen was the imam of Hamburg′s Islamic Centre until 2014. Carolin Kubo spoke to the courageous Islamic theologian about the years she spent working for the local Islamic community and about her latest research projectMore

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Jesuit priest Felix Koerner (photo: Carolin Kubo)

Interview with the theologian and Islam scholar Felix Koerner

"Clean theology is good for every religious community"

At the start of the millennium, the Jesuit priest Felix Koerner conducted research in Ankara and engaged with theologians who were streets ahead of their Arab colleagues when it came to libertarian and progressive thought. But the role of religion on the Bosphorus has changed dramatically since then. In an interview with Carolin Kubo, Koerner talks about the interdependence of religion and the state in Turkey and why interfaith dialogue is at a more advanced stage in GermanyMore

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Iranian painter Homa Arkani: Beautycraze

In spite of strict moral regulations, plastic surgery is allowed in Iran. More than 60,000 Iranian women per year get nose surgery. Such contradictions have informed Tehran-born artist Homa Arkani's work since 1983.