Guerre and Shalom

Guerre and Shalom

The right to wear (and not wear) the hijab

My 20 year Franco-Iranian odyssey for freedom

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Daniel Clarke-Serret
Aug 30, 2023
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The fight for freedom in Iran is not just any news story. It goes to the core of my most treasured beliefs.

Twenty years ago, I was studying in France. The then-Chirac government introduced a law to ban the wearing of religious symbols in French state schools (the Muslim hijab, the Jewish kippa and when they finally realised there were Sikhs in Paris, th…

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