March 1 2013 Habibi Ana, an Amsterdam café which bills itself as a Muslim gay bar, is shutting down March 2 2013. The closure is not due to the club’s demographic or status as a Muslim gay bar but rather due to breaking noise regulations. RNW provides a profile on its history and the…
Zaman France 25.01.2012 In a recently published article by Zaman France, John Bowen, an anthropologist at the University of Washington St. Louis and author of the book “L’Islam à la francaise” (Islam in French), shares his thoughts on communitarianism amongst Muslims in France. He has previously conducted field research in the mosque community of Clichy-sous-Bois,…
12 January 2013 The Nouvel Observateur has sat down with the French-Syrian historian and co-author of the book ‘Notre France’ (Our France), Farouk Mardam Bey, to discuss his work on identity, integration and the idea of France. Bey describes his work as a product of the previous French presidential campaign, when polemic debates on French…
I am a third-generation Arab-American, and I am on a journey to learn more about the journey of my “jiddo,” the Arabic word for grandfather. I am sorting through family stories, passed down, that have a way of changing in the retelling. Folk tales are compelling, but I am trying to anchor my story to…
Lupe Fiasco has no filter. It’s pretty damn refreshing in an industry bursting at the seams with image-conscious rappers and manufactured pop divas. A practicing Muslim, he’s called President Obama “a terrorist,” does not vote in U.S. elections, was a regular fixture at Occupy Wall Street, and had an infamous on-air tussle with the irascible…
