French Islam and French Muslims. Students in FRN 215 took on a media controversy around halal meat, butcher shops, and ritual slaughter that has pitted animal rights activists against Muslim communities in France, collaborating on a final video project which dramatized an altercation in a Muslim butcher shop between an animal rights activist, a butcher, and a client bystander. View accompanying statement here. Accessible only via Smith credentials. Instructor: Mehammed Mack, French Studies