Laurent Lévy, born in 1956, is an antiracist activist in the French communist tradition. He has published numerous articles on the question of Islamophobia, which he has also addressed in two books, among others he has written: Le spectre du communautarisme, Amsterdam, 2005, and “La gauche," les Noirs et les Arabes, La Fabrique, 2010.
As an indicator of national frustrations, the headscarf crystallizes the collective hysteria of a declining power that clings to its dreams and its extinct splendor.