Panama’s Muslim converts work to carve out space for themselves, in a country that doesn’t seem to know they exist. In this report, Aliyya Swaby meets two black Muslim women who have founded a mosque in Panama City and describes the unique mix of religion, race, class and gender at play in the growth of their community.
Aliyya Swaby
A recent graduate from Yale University, Aliyya Swaby is currently a freelance writer in Panama City, Panama. She received a Parker Huang Undergraduate Travel Fellowship to report for nine months on social issues affecting rural and urban Afro-Panamanian populations.
