Secretary of State for Urban Affairs Fadela Amara of France

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Amara was born to Algerian Kabyle parents in an emergency housing district of Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France which she later described as a shanty-town.

In 1978, as Amara was 14, her brother Malik was run down by a reckless driver.

But the atrocity demanded a greater response than mere shock, and Fadla Amara knew it.

The daughter of Algerian parents, Amara was brought up in a suburban Clermont-Ferrand housing development.

Amara says her project was like most today: about 90% immigrants or their children, underemployed and segregated from French society.

orgFadela Amara was born in 1964 in Clermont-Ferrand.

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Today, the rather disorderly, often Arab-speaking, pugnacious Amara is receiving the lion's share of publicity in her ministry.

Fadela Amara is an ethnic activist not a religious one.

Fadela Amara has a good objective, I wish her luck.

Amara is a practising Muslim, and proud of her religion, but she's fierce in her condemnation of "political Islam", which arrived in the suburbs in the 1990s, preached "by self-appointed imams in basements where nobody could see them.

With all this fiery talk, Amara has her critics.

For his part, the Villepinist dput Franois Goulard, opposed to the DNA amendment, wondered on France Inter what Fadela Amara is doing inside the government.

FADELA AMARA SAYS SHES ASTONISHED BY THE PROPORTIONS THE POLEMIC HAS ASSUMED Agence France-PresseOctober 11, 2007.

Dominique Sopo, president of SOS Racisme, thinks so too: he says he expects nothing in particular from the policymaking in which Fadela Amara is engaged.

The leftist daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fadela Amara is an unlikely cabinet minister.

106,381186ppOther Formats:Hardcover SynopsisBorn in France of Algerian parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and a collective voice.

More Reviews and RecommendationsBiographyFadela Amara is President of Ni Putes Ni Soumises, as well as the Fdration Nationale des Maisons des Potes, a network of associations working to structure civic, cultural, and social activities in suburban housing projects.

From the PublisherBorn in France of Algerian parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and a collective voice.

ET Mar 1, 2008From the magazine issue dated Mar 10, 2008The leftist daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fadela Amara is an unlikely cabinet minister.

Amara discussed it with NEWSWEEK's Tracy McNicoll.

Fadela Amara is within the scope of WikiProject France, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to France on Wikipedia.

Amara has been active in trying to repress the representation of muslim religion in public places, and expelling young women with headscarves from schools etc.

I think its disgusting," Amara said on France Inter radio.

Franois Goulard, a center-right lawmaker who had himself expressed reservations about the bill, asked what Amara was "doing in this government.

Amara said the ruling might "dissuade certain fanatics from imposing the burqa on their wives.

Mlle Amara is the daughter of an illiterate Algerian father who moved to France.

Amara was at the center of a meeting of all government ministers on the problems of the banlieues.

Amara came to Chanteloup-les- Vignes, she said, to look at promising initiatives that could be copied elsewhere.

Amara is also concerned by the growing power of radical Islam among unemployed youth, on the margins, listening to preachers in what she called “the Islam of the basements.

Amara says that when she was in Israel, she actually felt quite at home.

Born in France to Algerian immigrant parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and collective voice.

Amara said she was disgusted with the partys taste for luxury and its endless leadership battles.

Amara has explained, but also about protecting women from violence and traditional patriarchal behaviour brought from colonial and tribal societies like her own, in Algeria.

Amara discusses with sensitivity the complex gender position of Muslim women in a Western European country in which the conflict between liberal republican ideals and cultural norms has had particularly violent consequences for women.

Born in France of Algerian parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and a collective voice.

Fadela Amara is currently State Minister for Urban Affairs, charged with the rehabilitation of the very ghettos she describes.

Fadela Amara is President of Ni Putes Ni Soumises, as well as the Fdration Nationale des Maisons des Potes, a network of associations working to structure civic, cultural, and social activities in suburban housing projects.

Publisher Notes: Neither Whores nor DoormatsBorn in France to Algerian immigrant parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and collective voice.

Amara is visiting Epinay Sur Seine, one of the many immigrant ghettoes that encircle Paris.

The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Amara was a political activist as a teen.

Searching for Inclusion Amara is a firm believer in the secular values of mainstream French society, and she demands that France live up to its ideals of liberty, equality and brotherhood for all its citizens.

Nothing about Fadela Amara is cut from the mold.

WHILE a Socialist, Amara said she was disgusted with the partys taste for luxury and its endless leadership battles.

It was about liberation, Amara has explained, but also about protecting women from violence and traditional patriarchal behavior brought from colonial and tribal societies like her own, in Algeria.

Amara was recruited for her widely applauded struggle to defend the rights of women, immigrants and residents of France's blighted housing projects as the head of the group "Ni Putes, Ni Soumises" (Neither Whores Nor Submissive.

Fadela Amara is better known as the guiding spirit of the Afro-Maghrebin feminist association called "Neither Whores nor Slaves" ("Ni Putes ni Soumises.

Besides her feminist and pro-abortion causes, Fadela Amara is known to have supported the racist rap group Sniper when the group was in trouble with the Minister of the Interior at the time.

Having made her name as a militant in SOS Racisme, a civil rights group, in 2000 Amara was elected president of the Federation Nationale des Maisons des Potes, a network of non-profit associations that aims to improve the country’s deprived suburbs.

Amara says she was not surprised, describing the situation as a “pressure cooker waiting to explode.

The motto stuck, and Amara found herself head of France’s noisiest new feminist movement.

Amara has not been without her critics.

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From her dismissal of the sensitive issue of the bloody and destructive French colonial presence in Algeria, to her emphatic denounciation of the Quran as mygonist on France 5's "C dans l'air" (responding to a suggestion that re-interpretation of the Quran could be a tool for positively influencing ghetto kids), Amara has repeatedly demonstrated her alienation from the base she claims to represent.

Fadela Amara has adopted the establishment's terminology by using expressions like communautarisme (negatively perceived multiculturalism that implies balkanization), Republic (an all-encompassing term for the status quo) and integration (strongly assimilationist in connotation) to win favour with a French mainstream holding tightly to its sacred cows.

I got the impression from your remarks about her participation in civil rights marches as well as a cursory look at the NPNS website that Amara has stood up somewhat for beur rights - is that correct? If she's involved in these committees for women who are victims of domestic violence, I would assume she must have some standing in her community or be seen as addressing her community.

Maybe she did before she was famous, frankly I don't know.

Fadela Amara is symptomatic of the integration path chosen by some Frenchmen of Maghrebi descent: to cry with the wolves.

Loubna Meliane, who was part of the same organisation, Ni putes ni soumises, and, by the way, is an active member of the Parti socialiste (PS) precisely as Boutih and Amara (Fadela Amara is even a local councillor for the PS in Clermont-Ferrand I think, though under the name of Fatiha Amara.

But fissures are starting to appear in the united front, and Amara is at the leading edge.

And, despite the frictions within the government, Amara has stood by her boss: "He respects my convictions, as I respect his, even though I don't share them.

A Muslim member of the French government has backed a court's decision to deny citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wears the burqa.

Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara said she hoped last month's ruling would "dissuade certain fanatics from imposing the burqa on their wives.