Links to information on Islam, education for women, and women's rights organizations.

Many modern debates about "women's status in Islam" focus on topics such as polygamy, the veil, and a few verses from the Islamic holy book, the Qur'an, that seem to impose female subordination -- to men in general and husbands in particular.

Will the kingdom will find a path to democratic reform or succumb to a rising tide of Islamic extremism.

Saudi Arabia is in the throes of a crisis. Its population is growing faster than its economy, its welfare state is rapidly deteriorating, regional and sectarian resentments are rising, and the disaffected are increasingly turning to radical Islamic activism.

Learn where Sunni and Shia Muslims live with this map of the Islamic world.

Explore the everyday lives of French Muslims in this photo essay.

Timeline of French secularism, from the French Revolution to the headscarf debate.

Learn more from these additional web and print resources.

(August 26, 2004) WIDE ANGLE explores the ban on Muslim headscarves in French schools in the town of Dammarie-les-Lys, a racially diverse, working-class community on the outskirts of Paris, where young Muslim women face a choice to obey the ban - or flout it.

This film covers a racially diverse, working-class community on the outskirts of Paris, where Muslim women face a choice to obey a headscarf ban — or flout it.

Since 1989, the appearance of the hijab (Muslim headscarf) in French public schools has opened the most impassioned debate over the role of laïcité (secularism) in French society since the separation of church and state in 1905.

Professor Fawaz Gerges discusses secularism in France with host Mishal Husain.

Essay outlining the history of modern suicide terrorism.

(July 17, 2003) WIDE ANGLE follows Salman Ahmed as he journeys to the tolerant, ancient city of Lahore and the fundamentalist stronghold of Peshawar to reveal the internal religious and political conflicts of nuclear-armed Pakistan.