Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisivePosted in Articles, Campus Life, Media Archive, Religion, United Kingdom on 2016-04-25 02:08Z by Steven |
Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive
The Guardian
2016-04-22
 At the NUS conference, Bouattia won on the first round. Photograph: NUS/PA |
Jewish student groups alarmed by her election, but the first black Muslim woman in the role has nerves of steel, and young activists love her for that
It is rare that the election of a student union president merits the flurry of headlines that greeted Malia Bouattia. But her election, as the first black Muslim woman to hold the office, has been one of the most divisive moments in the National Union of Students’ recent history…
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