Majida Khattari

Majida Khattari (born 1966)[1] is a Moroccan-born French multidisciplinary contemporary artist.

[1] Her work often addresses fashion and women's bodies in contemporary Islam.

[1][4] She attended the School of Fine Arts of Casablanca (1988 diploma), and by 1988 she moved to Paris to attend the Beaux-Arts de Paris (English: National School of Fine Arts of Paris; 1995 national higher diploma in plastic arts).

[1][5] Shortly after she arrived in Paris, in September 1989 the Islamic scarf controversy in France was happening, when three female students were suspended for refusing to remove their scarves in class at middle school in Creil, became international news.

[7] Her work has been shown internationally including in Québec, Canada; Montreal, Canada (2015);[8] London, England; Paris, France; and New York City, New York, United States.