Illegal Citizens is a book by American writer Afdhere Jama. and published in 2008 by Salaam Press.
The book (full title Illegal Citizens: Queer Lives in the Muslim World, and is about the lives of 33 people in 22 countries. Countries whose citizens are profiled include Nigeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iran, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Bosnia, and others.
Famous quotes containing the words illegal and/or citizens:
“It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry.... If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)