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Everyone is afraid: the world according to Abou Jahjah

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

 

Rosemary Bechler

The charismatic leader, Dyab Abou Jahjah, is giving voice to a militant new form of Arab European identity. His Arab European League (AEL) is growing in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, and plans to expand across Europe. He demands that Europeans hear him and calls on Arabs to take the rights they feel they are denied. openDemocracy went to Antwerp to listen. (more…)