By these words, the Jewish writer and teacher Susanne Levin introduces herself in an article entitled “Shalom alechem – aleikum salam,” published in the cultural magazine for Swedish Muslims, Minaret, in their 2007 special issue on Jewish-Muslim dialogue. For Levin, born and raised a Jew in Sweden only a decade after the Holocaust, the experience of not fitting into the patterns of Swedish normality created in her what she later has called a “stranger's soul”: a profound feeling of being vulnerable, of being an outsider. Later in life, as she encountered Muslim immigrant children in the school where she worked as a teacher, she recognized herself in the eagerness and anxiety displayed in their eyes: “Small dark girls with short legs and zealous feet searching for a hold in two worlds. Hands in the air, ache in the stomach.”