Kahina Bahloul
Imam & Islamologist Val d’Isère 2020Marseille 2021
Bringing nuance into a world where the term radicalization is present everywhere, and faster and faster, this is the fight led by Kahina Bahloul since the attacks of 2015. Lawyer training, PhD student in Islamology at the School of Advanced Studies this brave theologian, aged 39, has recently become the first Imam of France. More than a fight against a normative and patriarchal reading of religious texts, it is the promotion of an Islam imbued with humanism and progressivism that Kahina will come to defend the Napoleons Through her very rich career she will come to explain the challenges and the importance of its commitment and show us how tradition can also be combined with modernity.