Young, Muslim, and French [videorecording] / producers, Micah Fink, Kathleen Hughes ; writer, Kathleen Hughes ; senior producer, Andy Halper ; series producer, Pamela Hogan ; executive producer, Stephen Segaller ; a production of Thirteen/WNET New York and Nova Prod.

Wide angle (Television program)

Subtitle on disc surface and container: Stories of assimilation and defiance

Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.

English

English and French with English subtitles; closed-captioned.

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

DC34.5.M87 Y68 2006

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France's recent decision to ban the wearing of traditional Muslim headscarves (hijab) in public schools--a law widely perceived by Muslims to be an undemocratic expression. Wide Angle explores this conflict in the town of Dammarie-les-Lys. Also featured is the local high school principal, Ghislaine Hudson, a member of the commission charged with reviewing the use of religious symbols. After the program, Professor Fawaz Gerges also discusses secularism in France. Unemployment and the economic plight of the French Muslim minority and lack of social integration is also discussed.

Host, Mishal Husain ; interviewee, Dr. Fawaz Gerges.

Director of photography, Hervé Cohen ; editor, Ruth Schell ; narrator, Jay O. Saunders ; music, John Hodian.

Episode originally broadcast August 26, 2004 on Wide angle.

DVD-R, NTSC.

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