PHOTOS: Supermodel Kenza Fourati: "Women Are Very Powerful"
Kenza, a Sorbonne-educated politically conscious North African from Tunisia, is breaking barriers, encouraging discourse and exercising her right to do so.
Her actions, judging by the reactions from our interview, is not sitting well with conservatives here and in her native Tunisia.
These feelings about what a Muslim is or what a Muslim should do, although important to the conversation about Islam and the West, are not new.
However, what Kenza is doing is drawing attention to the diversity of Islamic thought and practice across multiple nations, as well as championing artistic expression in her country, which was the first Muslim nation to drive the present revolution.
As Kenza said during our interview, being Muslim and being a swimsuit model should not be mutually exclusive.
"We are at a point now in Tunisia where we are free," Kenza explained in our offices last week. "We should be able to portray art like this if we want to, as the extremists are allowed to express themselves, too. That is a debate that we want to create, but it must be a peaceful one."
We support her and couldn't agree more!
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