Fadela Amara

Fadela Amara (actually Fatiha Amara, born April 25, 1964 in Clermont- Ferrand ) is a French politician and feminist. She was one of 11 children of immigrants from Kabylia in France family.

Fadela Amara was president of the movement Ni putes ni soumises ( "neither whores nor subordinates "), which fights for the equal treatment of women in Muslim society in the French suburbs. For her followers she is therefore a pioneer of the hitherto neglected topic of the rights of Muslim women, their opponents accuse the other hand, anti-Muslim attitudes. Although membership in the Socialist Party of France Amara was appointed by President Nicolas Sarkozy in his government and was dated 18 June 2007 to November 2010 State Secretary of Planning and Urban Development in the conservative cabinet Fillon II in the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Minister Christine Boutin. In a cabinet reshuffle, she lost her office. In the 2012 presidential election, she supported the candidate of the Socialist François Hollande.

Works

• Fadela Amara and Sylvia Zappi, Ni putes ni soumises Éditions La Découverte, 2003. ISBN 2707141429
• Fadela Amara and Mohammed Abdi, La Racaille de la République, Le Seuil, 2006.