Related articles:

"Religious discrimination claims of inmates to be considered" by Jill Miller, Daily Record, Oct. 2, 2003

"Muslim Rivalry Hits New York Prisons" by Joseph Goldstein,
The New York Sun, Nov. 7, 2007


"Radical Islam Behind Bars" by Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard, Nov. 9, 2007

"Fear Not the Shias" by Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard, March 24, 2003

"Iraq's Shadow Widens Sunni-Shiite Split in U.S." by Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times, Feb. 4, 2007

"Differences between Sunni and Shia" by Damien Cave, The New York Times, Dec. 17, 2007

"Sunnis and Shiites, a Street Apart" by Shomial Ahmad, The New York Times, Jan. 14, 2007

"Muslim Inmates Demand Equality on Their Plates" by Juli S. Charkes, The New York Times, March 11, 2007


"The Partisans of Ali" by Mike Shuster, NPR, Feb. 12, 2007

"A Split after Muhammad's Death That Still Resonates" by Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times, Feb. 14, 2007

"Inmate Litigation" by Margot Shlanger, Harvard Law Review, April 2003, pages 1555 to 1706

Related Web sites:
How to Cover Prisons: Society of Professional Journalists

Al-Islam.org: an introduction to Islam, with an emphasis on Shi'a Islam

NASIMCO: Shi'a organization that provides religious and
cultural resources for Shi'a in North America

Books:

Chatin, Clay. "Shi'a: The Forgotten Muslim Community"(unpublished)

Abou El Fadl, Khaled M. "The Great Theft." HarperCollins, 2005.

Schwartz, Stephen. “The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror." Random House, 2002.

Schwartz, Stephen. “An Activist's Guide to Arab and Muslim Campus and Community Organizations in North America” (pamphlet)