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Articles of the author Sara Memmi
Belgium moves towards public ban of niqab and burka
Belgium is preparing to impose a nationwide ban on the niqab, or the face-covering veil. If successful, the country will be the first European nation to prohibit the wearing of the Muslim clothing. On Wednesday, the Belgian Home Affairs (...)

01 - 04 - 2010
Mesmerizing tabla on the roof
Write while they’re still warm, Sara. I just got back from my afternoon tabla lesson and my fingers are still pounding, ready to let you in on a nice Cairo story. Because you might or might have not heard it through the grapevine, but this lady is (...)

07 - 02 - 2010
A Swiss minaret ban echoes in Belgium, but why?
A Flemish municipality, named Beringen, applied for installing speakers on the minarets of their Fatih mosque, a Turkish-Ottoman styled mosque and one of the biggest of Belgium. De Fatih mosque of Beringen is one of the few mosques with minarets (...)

17 - 12 - 2009
Defending animal rights leads to racism charges
The Islamic Feast of Sacrifice being a hot news item all around the world the past few days, I was curiously awaiting how Belgian or European media would report on this, not so much on the pilgrimage to Mecca, but more so on the Islamic celebration (...)

02 - 12 - 2009
Meryem Kanmaz: Islamic spaces in the city
“We have mosques?”, is what a lot of people in Belgium would probably ask themselves reading this book title. Ghent, the city where I attended university and where I still linger more than I should, is central here and even to me a lot of Muslim (...)

18 - 11 - 2009
Volunteering at Flemish Refugee Action
A while ago I saw a call for volunteers at the organization of Flemish Refugee Action regarding translating from Dutch to Arabic of a new portfolio for asylum seekers in Belgium. But since I’ve been job searching for quite a while and I thought it (...)

05 - 11 - 2009
Custom made Islam teaching
In my last contribution, when I wrote about the Belgian headscarf ban, the city of Antwerp came out in a rather bad light, making Belgian Muslim girls, women and – thanks to the heated debate that followed – the whole Muslim community feel quite (...)

20 - 10 - 2009
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