Even before they sign their first permanent employment contract, many Muslim students have already faced Islamophobic job-related discrimination, for example when applying for work experience or internships. And many young women applicants also agonise over whether or not to include a photo of them wearing the hijab or traditional Muslim headscarf with their CV. The discriminatory attitude displayed by potential bosses and employers is now leading these young women to question their future in France, even though this is the country where they were born and have grown up. Marie Turcan reports.
Riad Sattouf, 46, born to a French mother and Syrian father, has sold more than three million copies of his autobiographic series 'The Arab of the Future' which draws from his childhood and raises thorny questions about the compatibility of the Western and Arab worlds.
Immediately after taking office on January 20th, US President Donald Trump has begun his pledged crackdown on undocumented immigrants, with the arrests and deportations of many hundreds of people since last week, some of them on military cargo planes, and a significant hardening of the immigration system. Earlier this month Nejma Brahim travelled to California where she met with undocumented immigrants who spoke of their terror of being deported, some after having lived decades in the country.
Laurence des Cars, the first woman director of the Louvre, the museum with the highest annual number of visitors worldwide, has warned the French government that its decaying state, which is endangering its abundant artworks, requires a decision to launch costly repairs.
French father-of-four Serge Atlaoui, 61, who was arrested in Indonesia in 2005 for working as a welder at a drugs factory near the capital Jakarta, which he said he thought was an acrylics plant, and who has been on death rown since 2007, is expected to be sent back to France early next month.
Maxime Chapoutier's family have been Rhône Valley winemakers for more than 200 years, and he is now taking advantage of Brexit to circumnavigate EU rules to blend Australian and French wines in the UK, but the audacious mixing of grapes from the two hemispheres is not to everyone's taste.
David Balland, a co-founder of Ledger, which sells physical devices for storing crypto assets, and his partner were freed after their kidnapping on Tuesday in central France.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday published a ruling against France over a divorce case in which the wife was found to have been at fault for the collapse of her marriage because the mother of four had refused, over a period of several years, to have sexual relations with her husband. For the French justice system, the ECHR ruling marks the end of a notion of “marital duty” which has previously been cited by courts in apportioning the blame in divorce cases. "Marriage is no longer a sexual servitude," commented one of the divorcee's lawyers after the ruling. Marine Turchi reports.
The largest exhibition ever of the works of British artist David Hockney, including canvases that have never before been displayed, is to open in Paris in April at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, which Hockney said will also include his most recent paintings, adding 'I think it’s going to be very good'.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou said that if Europe does nothing to counter the 'dominating' politics of US President Donald Trump, who was sworn in for a new term of office on Monday, 'we will be crushed, we will be marginalised'.