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:
“Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, for the last eight years, to be in the men’s room whenever an important illegal decision was made.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar in habits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)