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French students returned to class facing yet another battle over what some Muslim girls are choosing to wear. This time it’s the abaya, a long loose-fitting dress. Dozens of students were sent home after nearly 300 showed up to the first day of classes in abayas. French women have been here for a while now: head coverings, including the hijab, were first banned in public schools back in 2004. So how will this latest ban impact Muslim students and communities today? In this episode: Loubna Reguig, national president of the Muslim Students of France Episode credits: This episode was produced by Sonia Bhagat, Chloe K. Li and our host Malika Bilal. Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera AlDosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

Have you ever thought about machines one day taking over and controlling us? It may be less farfetched than we used to think. And experts in technology and artificial intelligence are starting to sound a little concerned. They call it the "technological singularity," which refers to a point in time where machines become so advanced they surpass human intelligence. With such rapid advances in AI, some people believe this singularity could be just around the corner. If it happens, would it mean the end of human supremacy? In this episode, adapted from the hit Arabic series Dahaleez, Amr Waked takes a closer look at what the future might hold for us humans.

“Go away you black bugs.” A hate speech attack in Turkey against a Muslim woman wearing a hijab is just one of a series of recent incidents that have been caught on video.

Mexico’s governing party has named former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as its candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, putting her in pole position to become the country’s first woman leader. Mexico will go to the polls on June 2 to elect a successor to popular incumbent Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), who is barred by the constitution from serving a second six-year term. Sheinbaum, 61, was chosen on Wednesday following a series of surveys of members of the governing Morena party. The party’s national council president, Alfonso Durazo, said Sheinbaum beat former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, her closest rival, by double figures in five party surveys.