France’s biggest Muslim school went from accolades to defunding – showing a key paradox in how the country treats Islam
- Written by Carol Ferrara, Anthropologist & Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing Communication, Emerson College
Students attend a class at the Averroès school in Lille, France, in September 2023.Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty ImagesFrance is famously strict on enforcing what it calls “laïcité”: keeping religion out of the public sphere. Yet more than 7,500 private schools receive government funding, and most are Catholic. In a...
