The Globe and Mail – July 8, 2011 More than two-thirds of the population that surrounds Valley Park, in Toronto’s northeast, have arrived in the past 20 years, primarily from India, Pakistan and more recently Afghanistan – reflecting Canada’s shifting urban demographics. The school draws many of its students from Thorncliffe Park, a one-kilometre horseshoe…
Metro Calgary – May 12, 2011 The Calgary Alberta Board of Education is now considering Arabic language studies in city schools. With a growing Arabic-speaking population, a group of parents banded together to petition the CBE for this change and with enough demand the board could move forward. Like all of CBE’s bilingual programs, 30…
Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University, Islam in the West Program The ban of Muslim face veils voted last July went into effect in France on April 12 and two women have already been arrested by the police and one fined. Muslim school girls have been forbidden since 2004 to don headscarves and it would be tempting…
*Call for proposals for papers and discussants* *Making European Muslims:* *Islam and the Struggle over Beliefs, Perceptions and Identities among Children and Young People in Western Europe* * * *Two-day conference in Copenhagen, Denmark* *Friday 28 to Saturday 29 October, 2011* * * *Organized by the Arab and Islamic Studies Unit and the Child and…
19 February 2011 The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (IZRS) has held its yearly meeting, to which the president of the IZRS Nicolas Blancho had invited a number of prominent speakers. Approximately 2000 people attended the conference, where the star of the gathering was the Kuwaiti Sheikh Mishary Rashid Al-Afasy, while around 50 people from…
