Kenza Drider

Kendra Drider (born c. 1978) is a French Muslim woman of Moroccan descent. She intends to stand in the French presidential election, 2012 in protest at the burqa ban.

Wearing of the burqa was banned in France on April 11 2011. Drider is described as the face of France's "burqa brigade", the small number of women in the country that continue to wear the full veil. "I will be going about my business in my full veil as I have for the last 12 years and nothing and nobody is going to stop me," she told The Observer newspaper.