Shazmin Hirji
A Space for Individuality
The new gay-friendly mosque creates a space for men and women to pray together as equals.
Outside Paris
Despite their legal French citizenship, many second- and third-generation North Africans live in overcrowded tenements with their parents and new migrants of Arab or sub-Saharan African origin. They are palpably isolated from mainstream French society.
The Oil Lands
Immigrants in every country undoubtedly face hardships, but the combination of a institutionalized notion of a superior race, the sponsorship system, and virtually no effective laws or government monitoring policies to relieve immigrant workers of these abuses bring the concept of human rights abuse to a new level.
Appearance and Faith in the Muslim World
I am a Muslim, but when I travel to the “Muslim world,” I certainly do not feel like one.
