Avaya Aura -- the company's virtualized unified communications platform -- will be the centerpiece of much of its product go-to-market strategy, as Avaya itself has been saying for the past year.

Yara, a 15-year-old student at a school in Lyon, southwest France, told the Agence-France Presse news agency that she does not consider the abaya a form of religious dress. “They say that the ...

PARIS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The French government's decision to ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools drew ...

France's education minister has banned the wearing of the popular long robe known as the abaya in schools. He says it is a symbol of Islam. As students in France return to school this week ...

In Arab countries, the abaya is known by many names, such as Jalaba, Jalabiya, Omani and Qaftan, but it is basically a simple and loose garment - often black in colour - worn by women in the ...

In more conservative social circles, the abaya is part of expected dress conforming to social norms and culture. In Saudi Arabia, for example, women were required to wear an abaya until 2018 .

Late last month, with France still in vacation mode, Gabriel Attal, 34, the newly appointed education minister and a favorite of President Emmanuel Macron, declared that “the abaya can no longer ...