Kamel Daoud

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Islamophobia, the intellectual inquisition: has debate on Islam become impossible in Europe?

by Imen Neffati on May 23, 2016

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French intellectuals from Montaigne to Claude Levi-Strauss have repeatedly criticised Muslims’ ‘patriarchal and sexist abuses of women’. But when Kamel Daoud, an Algerian writer, recently tried to do the same, he was greeted with severe

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