Men pray in front of the Cabinet building in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 26, 2011. In the early morning of this day a protester, Ahmed Serour, got run over by a police car and died. The police claimed it was an accident when they clashed with protesters.
Here is a slideshow of a story I recently shot for the New York Times: “Mullah in Debate of Tradition vs. Modern Schooling”
Early morning a young Muslim cried during prayers in the Jamia Ishaatu Uloom, a madrassa in Akkalkuwa, Maharashtra, India, March 19, 2011. The president of the madrassa, Mullah Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, has been criticized by other Muslim clerics for his relatively progressive views. Vastanvi has spent the last decade bridging the divide between traditional and ÒmodernÓ education for Muslims. He has recently been named rector of the most influential orthodox Islamic schools, Dar ul-Uloom in the city of Deoband, and is now in a struggle about the school's future course.
A goat herder sits and smokes in front of Jamia Masjid in Delhi, India, June 24, 2010.
A muslim boy stands at the banks of the river Nala in the predominantely muslim neighbourhood Nizamuddin in Delhi, India, June, 20, 2010.
