In this timely work, Alexander Castilla deconstructs the myth of the so-called clash of Islam and democracy, and examines the forces involving the social integration and religious accommodation of Muslims in Catalonia, Spain during the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States and the March 11, 2004 terrorist attacks in…
PARIS — It is a measure of France’s confusion about Islam and its own Muslim citizens that in the political furor here over “banning the burqa,” as the argument goes, the garment at issue is not really the burqa at all, but the niqab. A burqa is the all-enveloping cloak, often blue, with a woven…
Project Responsibilities: Netherlands news and research Contact Information: [email protected] Professional Positions: PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Canada Areas of Expertise: Islam, Modern visual culture multiculturalism and pluralism in the so-called west Islamophobia and social fear anthropological approaches to ‘image’ and ‘object’ contemporary representations of Islam secularism / the secular Select Publications: Brown, Alexandra….
When German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble called a conference to open dialogue with the country’s Muslims in the autumn of 2006, aims were set high. Schäuble said then he wanted to send a signal that Muslims were welcome in Germany. At the same time, the dialogue was also intended to prevent the radicalization of the…
Maymouna Abdel Qadar has become the first Italian Muslim woman wearing the hijab or headscarf to run for local elections. Abdel Qadar, who is of Palestinian descent, is running in the central city of Perugia – the elections will take place on June 6th and 7th. She is running for Perugia’s communal council for the…
