The Financial Times — Growing Up Muslim In America

July 20, 2013 9:00 am

A generation of Muslim Americans has come of age in the shadow of 9/11, amid a climate that ranges from low-level paranoia to verbal abuse and vandalism. In response, some embrace their faith more fervently, others live in self-imposed isolation. Anna Fifield reports from Bay Ridge, home to a strong Muslim-American community in Brooklyn.

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A special thanks to photo editors Emma Bowkett & Aisha Zia.

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Faiza Ali Community organiser for the Arab American Association, Brooklyn, New York.

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Moustafa Bayoumi Literature professor at Brooklyn College and author.

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Boxer Sadam Ali and his brother Adam, 5 Ali is the first Arab American to represent the US in the Olympics (Beijing, 2008).

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Naemah Hegazy, 18 (left), and Bouchra Tabit, 20 College students.

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Sami Nijam, 15 High-school student in Brooklyn.

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Nasr al-Zindani, 21, left wants to go into law enforcement. Oaday Musallam, 22, right, wants to go into business.

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Aber Kawas (left) and her mother Manal Member of the Muslim Students’ Association and the Muslim American Society.

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Aber Kawas (right) and her mother Manal Member of the Muslim Students’ Association and the Muslim American Society.

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Mohammed Almathil Executive director of the Muslim American Society in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

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