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Monday November 7 , 2005
7pm
Auditorium de l’Alliance
$3 AFSF mbers $6 non members
In French |
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How are masculine and feminine identities formed in a traditional Muslim society? What are the dominant social models of men and women? What is the religious, social, psychological, anthropological, political and legal significance of the islamic veil?
What distinctions need to be made between Muslims, Islamists, Jihadists and finally, terrorists? Why does a religion, when reduced to its dogma, become fundamentalist? What is an Islamic system and how do the principles of this system maintain themselves? What structural differences exist between Muslim and democratic countries? And finally, what is secularism and how can it prevent the abuses and political manipulation of people's religious beliefs and allow for peace between believers of different faiths as well as non-believers within the same country?
Born in Iran in 1967, Chahdortt Djavann claims to have been "born a rebel", because she was born in a country where women do not have the right to exist. She grew up in Tehran, raised by her mother along with her brothers and sisters. At a very young age, she was exiled: after a short stay in Istanbul, she arrived in Paris in 1993. Life there was hard at first; she didn't speak the language. After a series of odd jobs, she was accepted into the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where she studied anthropology. In 2002, she published her first novel, Je viens d'ailleurs, followed by Bas les voiles! which condemned the Muslim veil worldwide, and earned Chahdortt sudden notoriety. In September 2004, she was again brought into the limelight, this time for the publication of Que pense Allah de l'Europe?
Her articles and interviews are published in the national press and la LICRA (the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism) which awarded her the International Prize for Secularism in 2004.
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