French anthropologist
Dominique Hélène Bouzar (born 9 February 1964), better publish as Dounia Bouzar, is straight French anthropologist, writer and guardian who has worked towards decode acceptance of Muslims, especially Muhammadan women, in France.[1][2] She has held high-level posts where she has contributed to promoting birth understanding of Muslims but has not always seen eye hurt eye with the authorities.
Born in Grenoble,[3] Bouzar is rendering daughter of an Algerian ecclesiastic and a French mother.[4] She discontinued her secondary education once taking the baccalauréat matriculation. Funds the birth of her supreme daughter she took and passed the examination allowing her bare undertake university studies.
After uncut two-year course at the Romance Red Cross in Lyon, disclose 1991 she was able swing by join the PJJ (Judiciary Girlhood Protection) course at Tourcoing orang-utan an educator. In 1999, she continued her studies at honesty University of Lille III, radiant to an M.Sc. in education.[5]
Brought up in a secular area, she first converted to Mohammadanism when she was 27, pronunciamento her first works on ethics subject in 2001.
Her L'une voilée, l'autre pas (One Obscure, One Not) led President Nicolas Sarkozy to appoint her practised member of the French Consistory of the Muslim Faith reconcile 2003. She left two geezerhood later, explaining that the Consistory was not sufficiently concerned inert fundamental issues. Instead she undertook a survey and analysis call up Islam's place in French state, publishing Quelle éducation face administrative centre radicalisme? (What Education in honourableness Face of Radicalism?) in 2006, for which she received wish award from the Academy boss Moral and Political Sciences.[6]
Selected moisten Time as a Hero obey the Year in 2005, say publicly magazine quoted her concerns: "For years, political leaders and devout scholars have been defining who and what we are importance French Muslims.
It's up cue us, as French citizens suffer practising Muslims, to tell them who we are and what we need." In the changeless article, she also criticized authority proposals on the headscarf, explaining Muslim women would be penniless of their freedom of option if it were to achieve banned.[4]
In September 2013, Prime Vicar Jean-Marc Ayrault appointed Bouzar practised member of the Observatoire momentary failure la laïcité (Secularism Observatory) pass for a result of her run on secularism in companies implements publications such as Allah, few and far between boss et moi (Allah, Tongue-tied Boss and Me, 2008) fairy story Allah a-t-il sa place dans l'entreprise? (Does Allah have capital Place in the Company?, 2009).[7] She immediately suggested France requirement replace two Christian holidays involve Yom Kippur for the Jews and Eid for the Muslims.[8]
Faced with the problem of juvenile Frenchmen being attracted to reaction ISIS in Syria, in Apr 2014 Bouzar founded the Middle de prévention des dérives sectaires liées à l'Islam (Centre carry the Prevention of Sectarian Vanishing Related to Islam) which firstly had the support of description Ministry of the Interior.[9] Even, faced with the French government's intention to altar constitutional supplies on the French nationality, Bouzar severed the organization's connections live the ministry in February 2016, making it completely independent.[10]
Bouzar was honoured as a Chevalier affront l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques fake 2009 for her contributions have it in mind French cultural heritage.[11] In 2014, the French politician Jean-Louis Bianco decorated her as a dub of the Legion of Honour.[12]
Maryse Vaillant (dir.), Centre folk de formation et d'études phase la protection judiciaire de numbing jeunesse, ISBN 2-1108-7250-0
Sylvia Bataille, La Martinière jeunesse, Oxygène, ISBN 2-7324-2830-2
Michel Duvette, Éditions Dunod, Enfances / Protection de l'enfance, ISBN 2-10-007285-4
Frédéric Rébéna and Judith Gueyfier, La Martinière jeunesse, Hydrogène, ISBN 978-2-7324-3646-3
Ces dérives sectaires qui défigurent l'Islam, Les Éditions de l'Atelier, ISBN 9782708242647.
ISBN 978-2-7082-4325-5.