Najat Vallaud-Belkacem was first inducted in the French Cabinet as the Minister for Women Affairs in 2012. Since then she has made a mark for herself by taking up issues concerning people. (Source: ...

Following the Paris terrorist attacks, it fell to a young Muslim education minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, to reassert her nation’s core values. “Reconciling the irreconcilable” is how France’s ...

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Former education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: 'The exploitation of women's bodies is cultural, societal and all-encompassing' In an op-ed, Vallaud-Belkacem argues that 10 years after the law ...

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Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who was France's Minister of Education between 2014 and 2017, was born on 4 October 1977 in the rural Rif region of Morocco. For a few years she grew up in relatively ...

InterviewAnother narrative must emerge in the face of hostility towards migrants, which has become an electoral issue, argues French former minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who is now the head of a ...

A far-right magazine has sparked a firestorm of controversy by describing France's new education minister as a "Moroccan Muslim at the head of national education" and calling the appointment of the 36 ...

ThirtyThirty years ago, a four-year-old Moroccan girl emigrated to France to join her father. Yesterday, she became the official 'face' of the new French government, reports The Independent. Najat ...

Under the chandeliers of a historic mansion on Paris's left bank, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem closes the double-doors to her gilded office to lessen the sound of power-drills. Workmen are turning the ...