Middle East: managing the epidemic and the rise of atheism
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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