A girl, a knife, and Hawa Gréou, KA Dilday

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At the end of the last century Hawa Gréou spent five years in prison in France. Those years, she said, were the happiest of her life. She was able to pray to Allah in peace in a little room of her own; never mind that it was locked and that she could not walk in the courtyard during recreation because veils are not allowed in French prisons. In the book Exciseuse, journalist Natacha Henry and Linda Weil-Curiel, the woman who prosecuted Gréou, help Gréou tell her story.

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A girl, a knife, and Hawa Gréou, KA Dilday