Sérénade Chafik: « Islamophobia has become the preferred verdict of the new inquisitors » Serenade Chafik was born in Egypt into a family of left-wing activists. She arrived in France at the age of 12 and then moved back to Cairo. Saved from FGM by her father, she nevertheless suffered the full force of her two successive marriages in Egypt, where her freedom was confiscated. In 1993, she fled to France but without her daughter Leïla, whom her ex-husband refused to let leave Cairo. In the spring of 2003, she went on a 29-day hunger strike to protest against her daughter’s imminent … Continuer de lire – Sérénade Chafik: « Islamophobia has become the preferred verdict of the new inquisitors »