New Alliances – Making Jewish-Muslim Dialog Work

Chair

Ebru Taşdemir (New German Media Makers)

Panelists

Jo Frank

Jo Frank is the Director of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (an institution of the Jewish community that provides merit-based scholarships for students), the founder of the international program "Dialogue/Perspectives: Discussing Religions and Worldviews", a writer, translator, publisher, and artistic director of the Zeitkunst festival.

Prof. Frederek Musall

Prof. Frederek Musall teaches philosophy and religious history at the Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg. He is currently investigating the diverse processes of religious pluralization and differentiation in modern-day Judaism. He strives to explore Jewish narratives that are less frequently in focus, such as the self-definitions of Middle Eastern and North African Jews in various historical and geographical contexts.

Saba-Nur Cheema

Saba-Nur Cheema, a Diplom graduate in political science, is the Director of Educational Programming and Projects of the Anne Frank Educational Center in Hesse, a lecturer at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, and a consultant in radicalization prevention. She develops programs for responding to right-wing ideologies, discrimination, racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia, especially in schools.

Hakan Tosuner

Hakan Tosuner is a political scientist and the director of Avicenna Studienwerk, the first scholarship provider for Muslims in Germany. He was previously at the Fulbright Commission, where his responsibilities included the Diversity Program. He is also a participating researcher in the project "The semantics of tolerance and (anti-)racism in Europe" at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder. He is a religious diversity trainer and had been active in Muslim youth work nationally and across Europe for many years.

Part of the Leo Baeck Foundation’s Jewish Future Congress