"From 1978 to 1980 I coverd the Iranian Revolution, then for seven years, from 1987 to 1993 I traveled the land of Muslims. From Sinkiang to Morocco, from London to Timbuktu, visiting New York and Mecca, I photographed the daily lives of Muslims, the rituals of their faith, their spirituality as well as the emergence of Islamism, its fanaticism and its violence.
Driven by a desire to understand the internal tensions at work within Muslim societies, I exposed the conflict between a rising political ideology looking for inspiration in a mythical past and the universal desire for modernity and democracy....