Hamid Zanaz | AW

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French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner (R) sits next to President of the French Council of the Muslim Faith and Great Mosque of Paris Rector Dalil Boubakeur at the Great Mosque in Paris, last November. (AFP)

France’s Islamist problem starts at the Great Mosque of Paris

January 25, 2020

A new reality. Algerian demonstrators chant slogans against the upcoming presidential election as they carry national flags during a protest in Algiers, November 26.(AFP)

What Algeria’s military establishment should understand

November 30, 2019

A woman wears an Algerian flag during a protest over fears of plot to prolong the Algerian president's rule, in Paris, March 17. (AFP)

Soft sharia smothers Muslim women in France

October 26, 2019

Palestinian feminist fashion items are on display at a shop in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The slogan reads in Arabic "a woman's voice shakes mountains". (AFP)

Muslim feminists looking for a third way

October 12, 2019

A Tunisian couple poses for a photograph with their 3-year-old son and 4-month-old daughter at their house in Tunis. (Reuters)

The Maghreb needs a sexual revolution

October 05, 2019

Opposite forces. Police officers prevent demonstrators from marching during a May Day protest on Labour Day in Algiers, May 1. (Reuters)

Algeria’s battle of the wills

June 22, 2019

A widening gap. A flag-clad Algerian woman raises a placard reads in Arabic: “No to the military regime”as demonstrators continue their protests in Algiers, May 10. (AFP)

Algeria’s crisis raises questions about role of the army

May 25, 2019

Young Algerian women take part in a demonstration in Algiers. (AP)

After protests, Algerian women reconquer the public space

April 27, 2019

Fighting taboos. French Imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (R) and female Imam Seyran Ates pose at the Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque in Berlin. (AFP)

Can women-led mosques in the West revolutionise Islam?

January 26, 2019

Has the French far right become the new normal?

April 29, 2017

When National Front candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen passed to the second round of the French presiden