The mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti, has awarded a prize (Ambrogino d’oro) to the most deserving citizens of the city of Milan. Among the awarded, the president of the House of Islamic Culture in Milan, Mahmoud Asfa. He pointed out the need, for Muslims, to have small places for worship. At the same time, he…
An Italian judge ruled to processed with the trial of US and Italian spies accused of kidnapping an Egyptian imam in 2003. The Milan judge rejected a defense request to lift arrest warrants against the 26 Americans, most of whom are believed to be CIA agents, despite some of the evidence being made inadmissible by…
Italy’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that Italian prosecutors had violated state secrecy in their case against American and Italian intelligence operatives. The decision by the Italian Constitutional Court was a significant blow to a case in which the CIA, the American Air Force colonel, and several Italian intelligence officials are charged with the seizure…
30-year old Abdullah Kabakebji, a young Syrian-Italian Muslim who is the former founder and leader of Italy’s Association of Young Muslims, has been appointed the head of Milan’s mosque. Kabakebji was elected as the director of Milan’s House of Islamic Culture, also known by local Muslims as the via Padova mosque. The House of Islamic…
The International Herald Tribune follows the dichotomy of Muslim Italians in Milan, navigating the bi-cultural lives. The article focuses in the profitability of youth – both as an economic investment “straddling two cultures” but also in their generational reality as having fluid identities. A new magazine written by second generationers, called “Yalla Italy” (Let’s Go,…
