Tag: Muslims

Meloni Building Regulations Target Mosques

The Fratelli d’Italia party is capitalising on the Italian state’s failure to recognise Islam as an official religion to radically clamp down on what structures Muslims can turn into prayer space.

Belgium Strips Recognition from Muslim Representative Body

I have never experienced such amateurism,” Belgium’s Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne said. “And this for a body that plays a crucial role for the Muslim community in our country. It deserves better.”

Searching for the Lost Mizrahim

Having thrived for millennia amidst Arab societies despite their inferior status, Oriental Jews were swiftly uprooted in a matter of decades by the Arab-Israeli conflict. A once-in-a-lifetime exhibit at Paris’s Institute for the Arab World attempts to synthesize conflicting narratives of trauma and nostalgia.