Light and Dark : Muslims in Italy (The journey and the meeting of two worlds)

A mixture of journalism and scientific illustration Light and Dark wishes to pay tribute to the Italian Muslim community its traits colors people and contradictions. The book is a recollection of interviews stories numbers and from the authors journey to 15 Italian cities asking about everything that could describe what it means to be Muslim in todays Italy. Heated in nature queries ranged from racism to violence in the name of God from identity crisis to women in Islam from Islamophobia to attempts to Islamise society. What emerges is an indubitably fascinating and kaleidoscopic picture: a combination of joy and sadness love and hatred peace and war hope and disillusionment. And this is exactly the point: we must honor complexity. We cannot make big generalizations. Yet we must study question the challenge in constructive ways - for only through dialogue will we maximize chances for mutual understanding and cohesiveness.