Alma and Lila (now 17 and 19) were defiant and, by just the third week of classes, a disciplinary committee had voted to exclude them from school. "We were prepared to have a difficult time, but not to that point, honestly!" says Alma in "Des filles comme les autres: Au Dela du Foulard" (Girls Like Any Others: Beyond the Headscarf), a book of interviews published in January.
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