Will the country’s diverse Muslim population buy into the government’s latest attempt effort to remake a religion? […]
The Atlantic: Karina Piser on French Islam
Apply for an ICWA fellowship
Letters of interest are due by June 15. […]
Thomas Goltz wins first Osman Mirzayev Prize in 1993… finds out in 2018
The article (in Russian) announces that I am the winner of the (first ever) 1993 Osman Mirzayev Prize “…for breaking the informational blockade against Azerbaijan….” and thus the recipient of 10,000 Roubles (then about the price of a new Lada car). […]
Thomas Goltz attends March For Our Lives
They say some 2,000 folks showed up for the Bozeman chapter of the March for Our Lives rally; I think that is a little high. My sign was the AK-47 case gifted to me by Hugh Pope after a trip to Lebanon; my statement was to put ‘NO!!’ on the two banana clip pockets. […]
Jean-Benoit Nadeau meets Emmanuel Macron
The selfie was take by me on February 15 at the Elysée palace. I was in France at the invitation of the Institut français, which was conducting a large consultation regarding the French government’s policy on the French language. […]
Washington Post: Pramila Jayapal on the state of US democracy
Achieving the American Dream is becoming ever harder. […]
Quartz: Pramilia Jayapal on #MeToo
The movement needs a backlash to enable it to grow. […]
The Nation: Karina Piser on France’s broken social ladder
Macron bills his government “radically centrist,” but its social policies are sliding to the right. […]
France attack an early test for Macron
He must reassure a public on edge while ensuring the response doesn’t deepen high tensions around Islam. […]
Converting to Islam in the secular republic
A determined girl tests the French law banning religious symbols in schools. […]