Author: Nadine Wojcik

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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

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Left on their own: the Kurds in Syria opted to side neither with the regime nor the opposition after the civil war broke out in 2011. Now they stand alone, besieged and with no one to back them since their American allies withdrew

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