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Long Skirts aren’t “secular” enough in France

Posted by nicole on 27 May 2015 / 1 Comment

I write a lot about France and its national psychosis over headscarves. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the 2004 law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols. I lived there as a hijabi for almost five years. So it is safe to say nothing really involving France and headscarves shocks me any more. Until recently. […]

The Media and the Headscarf: Kosovo Public Schools Edition (not the final episode)

Posted by Guest Contributor on 21 Feb 2013 / 0 Comments

This post was written by guest contributor Asifa Akbar. In the last couple of weeks, reports have surfaced about Kosovo’s supposed ban on the wearing of the headscarf (hijab) by Muslim girls in its public schools. Such reports were reposted on social media and influential blogs; for example, already over 900 people have recommended an […]