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:
“No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?”
—Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)
“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)