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Secular in name, Soviet in spirit: The hijab ban in Azerbaijan | Soumaya Ghannoushi @MEEopinions

Name: Secular in name, Soviet in spirit: The hijab ban in Azerbaijan | Soumaya Ghannoushi @MEEopinions
Uploaded: 2026-10-21T10:30:25Z
Duration: 6 min 37 s
Description: Soumaya Ghannoushi, a writer and expert in Middle East politics, argues that Azerbaijan’s hijab ban in schools is an authoritarian move rooted in the country’s Soviet past rather than secularism. Ghannoushi highlights that the Bolsheviks systematically dismantled religious institutions, closing and demolishing mosques, executing clerics, and altering the national alphabet...

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