HISTOIRE / RELIGION

«LES FEMMES DU PROPHÈTE»

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Selon l’historienne Magali Morsy, l’histoire des femmes du prophète aurait été volontairement occultée car elle aurait remis en question les us et coutumes de la culture arabe, c’est-à-dire celle d’une société préislamique, qu’on appelle Jahiliya. Que la femme passât du statut de simple objet à celui d’être humain à part entière fut difficile à passer dans la société bédouine.

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EDUCATION / RELIGION

Coran – Diogène en Banlieue

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“Ils préfèrent cacher leur ignorance derrière le voile de la religion afin de conserver le pouvoir qu’ils exercent sur les esprits.”

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THEATRE

One Night in Miami

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The young Cassius Clay finds himself the centre of a tug of war between Malcolm X’s desire for a more politically inclusive Islam and the much narrower, and controlling interpretation of the faith practised by the radical African American organization The Nation of Islam, an organization Malcom X was once a part of but from which he is now exiled.

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SOCIETE / VOYAGE

Enfer afghan & lueur d’espoir

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Simon Urwin est un photographe anglais passionné par l’aventure. Après avoir travaillé à la télévision et pour des magazines de voyage, notamment Lonely Planet, il décide de parcourir le monde et d’y faire ses propres reportages. Cet article raconte son dernier voyage en Afghanistan

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CINEMA

A Day For Women

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“A Day for Women” from Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s feature film “Barakah Meets Barakah” are both refreshing and enchanting with startlingly original perspectives of a world we think we know but one which in reality we don’t really know at all. Both films go a long way in challenging our entrenched prejudices.

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RELIGION / TRAVEL

Afghanistan: a burqa for Barbie

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The burqa has been ‘on trend’ here for hundreds of years. Like the local equivalent of a Hermès scarf or a Louboutin red heel, it first became popular as a status symbol, with the impractical billowing folds of the upturned shuttlecock clearly signalling that the wearer was a wealthier Metropolitan woman who’d never be seen dead working in the fields like her poorer Afghan sisters.

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RELIGION / SOCIETE

BURKINI: DIKTAT MASCULIN OU LIBERTÉ DES FEMMES VOILÉES

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Pour éclairer autrement un débat à l’étroit dans un cadre strictement “franco-français”, il n’est pas inutile d’aller voir ce qui se passe au sud de la Méditerranée.

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RELIGION / TRAVEL

Marrakech Syndrome

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A big mistake to make is choosing to spend just a weekend in Marrakech. To enjoy this amazing and unique city, you must stay at least a week. As soon as your foreigner face becomes familiar, locals begin to leave you in peace, to greet you, to smile and even to lower prices. You are no longer the foolish tourist, the Roumi from whom locals need to extract the maximum.

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