Held in a makeshift mosque – a Christian chapel temporarily stripped each week of its religious insignia – Cpt. Amir ElMasry’s midday prayer meetings regularly draw around 100 Muslims who work a variety of jobs around the Afghan base, including translators, food servers and civilian contractors. ElMasry has no religious training. “I’m in no way…
“Radio Muezzin,” a one-act documentary style play conceived by Swiis director Stefan Kaegi, was deemed too politically touchy an undertaking for Egyptians to embrace openly, according to the play’s promoters. While it cannot be seen in Cairo – the actual setting of the play itself – a performance was recently put on in Germany, funded…
According to a finding by several members of Italian Catholic aid groups, the number of immigrant entrepreneurs is rapidly growing in Italy and making a significant contribution to the country’s growth and international development. Data from a dossier by Caritas-Migrantes cites that the number of immigrants who own a company is currently set at 165,000,…
Yazid Sabeg issued a wakeup call to the French nation, which has already suffered major rioting from alienated immigrant youth in the country’s social housing projects. President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Sabeg in December 2008 to the newly created position of diversity and equality commissioner. He is to oversee a government action plan aimed at putting…
As economic crisis spreads in much of the world, tensions between immigrants and Spaniards are rising as unemployment rises. The deterioration of the Spanish economy has resulted in increasing unemployment for immigrants who are often hired to do seasonal work in the country. The decrease in job availability is resulting in rising competition between immigrants…
