Tag: abaya
Macron: Schools relentless on abaya ban
The country’s education minister, Gabriel Attal, announced a few days ago that the kaftan-like garment most commonly worn by Muslims, the abaya for women and girls and the khamis for…
Macron on the ban on the abaya at school: “We will not let anything pass”
The Head of State wishes to display his firmness. The government “will not let anything pass” on the abaya and the qamis, now prohibited in schools in the name of…
Beyond the abaya, let’s fight the identity spirit, by Omar Youssef Souleimane
In 2022, in a college in Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, during a writing workshop on individual freedom, a student writes a text on the ban on crop tops. She explains to…
The abaya, simple “adolescent provocation”? From Ndiaye to Attal, a year of behind-the-scenes battles
At that time, the wearing of the abaya was far from being at the center of the debates. In early September 2022, during a meeting, a National Education executive, alerted…
Tristane Banon: “These days, we don’t wear the abaya without religious motivations”
The Minister of National Education Gabriel Attal announced, on Sunday August 27, the ban on the abaya at school, a traditional covering garment from the Gulf countries, considering that it…
Secularism at school: the “clothing police” is the abaya, by Anne Rosencher
Since the Minister of Education Gabriel Attal announced to the TF1 newspaper on Sunday August 27 that he intended to ban the abaya on school premises, a laziest controversy has…
Ban on the abaya, “shock of knowledge” at school… Details of Attal’s announcements
It was his first back-to-school press conference as Minister of National Education. While several measures – in particular the ban on the abaya at school as well as the postponement…
Gabriel Attal: “We will no longer be able to wear an abaya at school”
On the front line on this thorny issue, the heads of establishments were waiting for clearer rules. They are heard. “We will no longer be able to wear an abaya…
Abaya, burkini: “French feminists defend what those of the Middle East refuse”
In the suburbs of Paris, in an association dealing with young people from working-class neighborhoods, I asked teenage girls, mostly veiled, to present France in a few words to someone…
Secularism: why the abaya must remain at the door of the school
At the start of the school year, a note from the State services already alerted. Nine months later, as students prepare to put away books and notebooks a few days…