Tel Aviv, Israel: A Muslim woman wearing a hijab stands next to a woman wearing a bikini in the Mediterranean Sea. A Nice court finally suspended the burkini ban in France this week after city authorities had defied a ruling by the country’s highest administrative court. Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters.
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A woman wearing a burkini on the beach in Marseille, France. Photo: Reuters.
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“When I invented the burkini in early 2004, it was to give women freedom, not to take it away” says Aheda Zanetti. “I would love to be in France to say this: you have misunderstood. And there more problems in the world to worry about, why create more? You’ve taken a product that symbolised happiness and joyfulness and fitness, and turned it into a product of hatred”, she added. Photo: Aheda Zanetti.
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Protesters against the burkini ban, outside the French embassy in London, United Kingdom. Photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images.
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The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, with the Paris Mayor, Anne Hidalgo, who called for an end to burkini “hysteria”. Photo: Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images.
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Dolce & Gabbana has produced a range of hijabs and abayas targeting women in the UAE. Photo: AFP/Getty Images.
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London, United Kingdom: Demonstrators stage a beach party outside the French embassy in Knightsbridge to protest against the French government’s decision to ban women from wearing burkinis. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA.
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