Coming of Age Under Surveillance in New York

Youth board a school bus at the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center, AICC, in Staten Island, New York City in May 2007. The AICC, one of the biggest mosques in America, is a three floor structure that provides a large, modern praying space but also a school that follows the American school curriculum, including Islamic studies. Islamic schools in the U.S. are following the same curriculum as other U.S. schools with the addition of Arabic language studies and study of the Koran and Islamic tradition. © Ziyah Gafic / LUZphoto

“I Feel Like a Despised Insect”: Coming of Age Under Surveillance in New York

An undercover NYPD cop falsely befriended my students at Brooklyn College in the name of counterterrorism. The harm to their own security has been severe.