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A Look into the Muslim Headscarf Hysteria in France

By Laila Lalami, The Nation. Posted November 24, 2007.


The social controversies over Muslim headscarves and the politics of identity in contemporary France are the subject of a new book, The Politics of the Veil.

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Laila Lalami, the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.

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