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Review of Abbracciando l'infedele. Storie di musulmani migranti verso Occidente
Da Il Manifesto, 28 May 2007
by Marina Forti
I personaggi di Behzad Yaghmaian vengono da posti come l'Afghanistan, l'Iran, il Kurdistan, perfino dalla lontana Angola. Tutti si sono lasciati dietro qualcosa di insopportabile: guerre, villaggi bombardati, parenti uccisi, oppure il peso di famiglie soffocanti, la repressione politica o persecuzioni più personali. Tutti cercano u Continue..
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Review of Embracing the Infidel
Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 30 No. 1 January 2007
by Liza Schuster
Department of Sociology
City University
This beautifully and accessibly written account of many journeys is a much needed addition to the current literature on migration. Eschewing categorizations such as asylum-seeker, refugee or economic migrant, Yaghmaian tells the stories of migrants from Iraq, Continue..
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Review of Embracing the Infidel
Race & Class 48(2), 2006.
One of the most alarming and dangerous consequences of the post-9/11
world and the ‘war on terror’ has been a tendency in the West to present
illegal immigration and terrorism as joint threats to national security.
This trend has reached particularly strident and hysterical proportions
when such migrants come from Islamic countries. In the US Continue..
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Review of Embracing the Infidel
Migration Letters, Volume: 3, No: 1, pp. 87 – 89. April 2006
by I. SIRKECI, Lecturer in Business and Management,
European Business School London, UK
International migration is not a marginal phenomenon influencing the lives of few individuals or families but increasingly made a major political issue in recent years. Despite the fact that human history is largely dominated Continue..
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Interview about Embracing the Infidel
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Tracing Muslims' trek Westward
Record
By PATRICIA ALEX
STAFF WRITER
The comfort and quiet of a suburban college campus holds only so much appeal for Behzad Yaghmaian.
"I'm most energized when I'm on the road, when my life is in transition," said Yaghmaian shortly before he departed last week for northern Africa and Istanbul Continue..
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Book Reviews
Z Magazine
August 2006
by Joseph Nevins
On January 10 of this year, 24 Haitian migrants suffocated to death while hidden in a truck. They were crossing clandestinely from their poverty-stricken homeland into the Dominican Republic where presumably they hoped to live and work “illegally” as hundreds of thousands of their compatriots do. Several days later, upwards o Continue..
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Essay about Embracing the Infidel
MO*magazine, februari 2006.
"Wij zijn geen normale mensen"
by dirk vermeiren
28 maart 2006 (MO) - Jaarlijks migreren tienduizenden mensen uit het Oosten en het Zuiden naar de schijnbaar onuitputtelijke rijkdom van het Westen. In Embracing the Infidel beschrijft de Iraanse auteur Bezhad Yaghmaian de migranten die hij in Istanboel leert kennen als de volwaardige mense Continue..
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Review of Embracing the Infidel
Mother Jones, January/February 2006 Issue
Behzad Yaghmaian’s intimate, horrifyingly vivid account of the plight of Muslim refugees is misleadingly titled: Religion plays little role in most of the stories he tells, outside of the religiously inspired warfare and oppression that drove some of his protagonists—women especially—from their homes. Embracing the Infidel is really about the co Continue..
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Review of Embracing the Infidel
Publisher Weekly, December 2005
Yaghmaian's second book is an eye-opening account of Muslim immigrants traveling from Africa or the Middle East to the West, where they hope to find opportunities not available in their homelands. Yaghmaian is a native Iranian, now a U.S. national, who lived among Muslim migrants in Istanbul, Sofia, Athens, Patras, Paris, Calais, London and New York while Continue..
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Review of Embracing the Infidel
Decatur Daily, December 11, 2005
By John Davis
I recall reading an obscure news account of Moroccan boat people, setting off for Europe and a better life. They were storm-tossed at sea, and their unseaworthy vessel was sinking. Spanish naval guardsmen intercepted them.
What would have been handled differently in different lands resulted in a strange solution. The b Continue..
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