Why Not Build the Mosque?: Islam, Political Cost, and the Practice of Democracy in Greece

＂This book explores the Greek state’s attempts to build a mosque. Looking at the project’s decades-long history of failure and its bittersweet realization in 2020, Dimitris Antoniou demonstrates the productivity of unrealized plans and sheds light on what it takes for things to happen in contemporary democracies＂--Publisher’s description.

Dimitris Antoniou is Lecturer in the Hellenic Studies and Classics Department and Associate Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative at Columbia University.