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A Jewish Israeli filmmaker works at an Arab hair salon
Jewish Israeli filmmaker Iris Zaki takes a job washing hair at an Arab salon in Haifa. Over the sink she gets her clients talking candidly about identity, politics and life together.
Disarmingly intimate: a shampoo bowl becomes the unlikely setting for honest Jewish–Arab conversation.
Sink-side diplomacy: a Jewish Israeli filmmaker gets a job at an Arab hair salon.
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