Canada, a Photo Journey Among Muslims (Pandora Press, 2009) chronicles the three-quarters of a million Muslims in Canada and they come from across the world and all the varieties of Islam. Most are Sunni Muslims, but there are Shia, Sufi, Ismaili, and secular Muslims.
Le Monde reports a decline in the availability of Arabic language classes in France. There are currently 7,300 high school student studying Arabic; there were twice as many students enrolled at the end of the 1970s. Chinese-language classes, in comparison, attract 15,000 students annually.
Thousands of non-Muslims are to dine with Muslim families during the month of Ramadan as part of an intercultural dialogue festival in the Netherlands. The dinners are a central component of the Ramadan Festival, which has staged public events throughout the month of Ramadan in several Dutch cities for the past five years. The festival…
