Marie Gilbert

Marie Gilbert is a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

France's "Battle of the Veil"

Many commentators have dismissed the French ban on wearing the niqab as a xenophobic reaction, writes Marie Gilbert. Hinging on French understandings about state, religion and women, the debate is in fact more sophisticated. It deserves to be heard rather than caricatured

By Marie Gilbert

/ 28 Apr 2011