Muslim women seen through the writings of Asma Lamrabet – Nezha Samari
Women were – and, to a certain extent, still are – the victims of ideologies, barbarous practices and discriminatory ancestral traditions that grant men a degree of superiority in pretty well nigh all societies in the world. For all that international instances warrant the same rights to both men and women, it is plain to see that this is not borne out in everyday reality.
The situations experienced by Muslim women are diverse. And yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, they are frequently interwoven with visions of the hijab or the burka, or forms of submission, indeed of violence. The analyses weighing up both the facts and the representations clash. Rather than discussing them globally, one of them was singled out for consideration.
