The New Imagined Community: Global Media and the Construction of National and Muslim Identities of Migrants. By Uriya Shavit. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2009. Pp. vii + 209. Hbk. ISBN 978-1-84519-328-7, $74.95 or £49.95.

This book by an Israeli scholar based at Tel Aviv University is based on interviews with a number of primarily Arab Muslims based in mosques in Frankfurt, but with reflections on the situation in other European cities both within and beyond Germany. Particular gratitude is expressed to the many …