Author: Nadine Wojcik

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Director Cleo Cohen on her cinematic identity journey "May God be with you". (photo: Cleo Cohen/Dok Leipzig 2021/May God Be with You)

Jewish-Arab identity

Cleo Cohen's "May God be with you"

Her grandparents are Jews – born in Tunisia and Algeria. Director Cleo Cohen has now broken the silence about this with a very personal debut. By Nadine WojcikMore

Kamal Ruhayyim's "Diary of a Muslim Jew": An engaging take on a complex themeJews in Turkey: Netflix' "The Club" and Istanbul’s difficult past Iraqi Jews: Iraqi Judaism lives on in literary formInterview with Benjamin Stora: The history of relations between Jews and MuslimsThe Arab Jews: Language, poetry, and singularity
Beneath the scarves: Muslim women who cover their heads are not marionettes of their beliefs, says video artist Nilbar Gures. Four still images shown here are taken from her 2006 performance, "Soyunma/Undressing", in which she unravels one veil after the other while mumbling the names of the women in her family

Berlin′s Jewish Museum: ″Cherchez la femme″

Why do women hide their hair?

Muslims, Jews, Christians: women all over the world cover their heads out of religious piety. An exhibition at Berlin's Jewish Museum asks what motivates them – and how others respond. By Nadine WojcikMore

Women's dress code in Islam: No compulsion to wear the headscarfInterview with Fereshta Ludin: "The decision for or against the headscarf is wholly a matter for the woman herself"Book review: Emel Zeynelabidin's "You grow up only in this life": The headscarf is not a gauge of devoutness