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Patrick Weil

Patrick Weil is director of research at the Centre national de la recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a former member of the commission on the implementation of the principle of secularism in the French republic. He co-edited Dual Nationality, Social Rights and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe (Berghahn, 2002).

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A nation in diversity: France, Muslims and the headscarf

Behind the French parliament’s ban on religious apparel in schools lies not anti-Muslim prejudice but the secular, liberal reasoning that gives the French republic its life and soul, argues one of the policy’s architects.