Middle East: managing the epidemic and the rise of atheism

The government has ordered the reopening of religious sites for the end of Ramadan. Here, an Iranian imam near the Shrine of Fatima Masoumeh, in Qom. Nazanin Tabatabaee / WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

By: Eric Bataillon

If the period of Ramadan saw most of the Moslem countries maintain measures of containment and the closing of the mosques, two countries are exception: Iran and Pakistan, in the two cases to contain possible popular demonstrations.

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We take stock with the academic  Jean-Pierre Filiu,  author of a blog for the newspaper Le Monde . We also interview  Isabelle de Gaulmyn , editor-in-chief of La Croix Hebdo magazine , who is coming out with an exciting and uplifting investigation into atheism in Muslim lands.

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