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Burkini

May 2022

  • Members of the pro-burkini association Alliance Citoyenne celebrating after the council voted to allow burkinis in Grenoble swimming pools – a decision that has since been overruled.

    Grenoble takes on French state as burkini legal row reaches highest court

  • Members of the pro-burkini association Alliance Citoyenne watch the municipal council vote on Monday.

    France to challenge Grenoble’s move to allow burkinis in public pools

June 2019

  • A Muslim woman wears a burkini

    French city shuts down public pools after two women wear burkinis

    Grenoble authorities said shutdown was requested by lifeguards at the pool

May 2017

  • French actress Eva Green poses as she leaves the Festival Palace on May 27, 2017 following the screening of the film 'Based on a True Story' (D'Apres une Histoire Vraie) at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France.  / AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCELOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images

    Cannes 2017 day 11: Eva Green and Joaquin Phoenix on the red carpet – in pictures

    Cannes is nearly at an end: it’s the last two big premieres, Based on a True Story, directed by Roman Polanski, and Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here

February 2017

  • iiLa (London) London modest fashion week.

    Generation M: how young Muslim women are driving a modest fashion revolution

    The first ever London modest fashion week brought hijabs, burkinis and kimonos to the catwalk this month. Now the British high street is finally beginning to cotton on

January 2017

  • Women in burkinis on Sydney’s Cronulla beach

    Burkinis and belonging: 'It's this feeling the beach and hijab don't mix'

    Australia prides itself on its relaxed beach culture but many Muslim women fear stares and stereotyping

December 2016

  • Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump turns to the American flag at a campaign rally in Sterling Heights, Mich., on Nov. 6, 2016

    2016 in review
    So long, 2016: the year of the political earthquake

    Farewell Barack Obama, David Cameron and Europe: how will this year go down in history?

October 2016

  • Alain Juppé

    Alain Juppé calls for UK border to move from Calais to Kent

    French presidential frontrunner says France should not be managing migrants on UK’s behalf and urges overhaul of Le Touquet agreement

September 2016

  • Conseil Des Ministres At Elysee Palace In Paris<br>PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 27:  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research arrives to the Elysee Palace for the weekly cabinet meeting on July 27, 2016 in Paris, France.  The weekly cabinet meeting has fallen the day after two terrorists were killed by the police after killing 86-year-old priest, named as Jacques Hamel, and injuring three others in the little town of Saint Etienne du Douvray next to Rouen.  (Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)

    Governmental garçons: how politics turned French style on its head

  • Natalie Nougayrède

    European Muslims are not new. Nor are they all the same

    Natalie Nougayrède
  • French President Francois Hollande delivers his speech about democracy and terrorism as he looks ahead to a potential bid for a second term, Thursday Sept. 8, 2016 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

    François Hollande: Islam can co-exist with a French secular state – video

  • Woman bathes wearing a burkini

    Burkini ban suspended by Nice court, dismissing claim of public order risk

August 2016

  • In this image taken from video, Nesrine Kenza who says she is happy to be free to wear a burkini, and two unidentified friends rest on the beach in Marseille, France, Monday Aug. 29, 2016.   A high court struck down the previous ban of the wearing of so called burkini Friday, but the debate revealed raw tensions between the secular establishment and sectors of France's estimated 5 million Muslims. (AP Photo)

    Why we wear the burkini: five women on dressing modestly at the beach

  • burkinis

    Dressing while female: a semi-definitive guide to exercising sartorial safety

  • People look at Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty leading the people

    French PM suggests naked breasts represent France better than a headscarf

  • A woman wearing a burkini walks in the water on a beach in Marseille<br>A woman wearing a burkini walks in the water August 27, 2016 on a beach in Marseille, France, the day after the country's highest administrative court suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has outraged Muslims and opened divisions within the government, pending a definitive ruling. REUTERS/Stringer

    Burkini ban would be 'unconstitutional', says French minister

  • French mayors refuse to lift burkini ban despite court ruling

  • Reactions as burkini ban is suspended: 'It doesn't change anything' – video

  • French rightwingers call for extension of burkini ban

  • Do you wear a burkini, or dress modestly? Share your experiences

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