New blog post: Veiled transgressions: revisiting Tunisia’s secular/religious binary through the afterlives of the hijab ban

In this IFJP article, the author analyzes the efforts of Tunisian women to frame the hijab (veil) ban under the former autocratic regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, also known as Circular 108, as a women’s rights violation through mobilizing Tunisia’s process of transitional justice. The article challenges the secular/religious conceptual binary that dominated earlier scholarship on women’s rights in post-revolutionary Tunisia, confirming the need – emphasized by recent studies – for more nuanced analyses of the politics of the veil in the Middle East and North Africa.

Read the blog here.