Talking Turkey
Compare the messaging. The first image, on the left, is a campaign flyer for Italy’s anti-immigrant Lega Nord party, photographed in March, outside our apartment in Milan. Notice the Turkish national...
View ArticleDiaspora (Paris Remix)
Algerian and French flags fly. Les Puces flea market, day three, World Cup.
View ArticleBrown Sugar
Germany was not a frequent subject of discussion in my family while I was growing up. Though my father had served in the Second World War, he was a Palestinian Jew whose family had been in the Middle...
View ArticleOur New Home
Twenty-three months ago, Jennifer and I left San Francisco for London. Though we miss the Bay Area, and have weathered many difficulties since, we’ve never been more convinced that the decision we...
View ArticleContextualizing Islamophobia
A case study of the ties binding Europe’s most iconographic racisms. On Bundesbank executive Thilo Sarrazin, for France 24.
View ArticleEverybody Knows
Yesterday I got queried about my opinions on Cablegate, the latest Wikileaks revelations. The subject? Their Israeli content. In an article in today’s edition of Rome newspaper Il Riformista, by...
View ArticleCombat Rock(s)
How the Libyan war intersects with debates about multiculturalism in the EU. The second installment of my weekly column, in Monday’s edition of Souciant.
View ArticlePower Trio
Let’s hear it for the ladies. Neukölln public housing installation, early September.
View ArticleTargeted Advertising
Pro-pluralism advert, Berlin. November, 2010. Migrant advocacy adhesive, Torino. August, 2011.
View ArticleMenu Le Pen (Reference Version)
From an article of the same title (Menu Le Pen) published under the Randomizer handle, in Tuesday’s edition of Souciant. Taken in front of the Duomo, in Milano, on Saturday, the French stood out, as...
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