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The National: Cairo courts rules in favour of niqab ban →
CAIRO // The Cairo Administrative Court yesterday upheld the decision of the higher education minister, Hany Helal, and heads of three universities to bar women who cover their faces with a niqab from sitting in this month’s mid-year exams…
“If I have to choose between my niqab and the test, I will chose my niqab,” Noha Ahmed Eid, 18, a medical student at Cairo University and a plaintiff in the case, said yesterday.
GulfNews: Cairo court upholds niqab ban →
The court, turning down lawsuits field by 55 niqab-wearing university students, said that the ban is meant to serve the public good.
Egyptian Woman, 1930
Original photo caption:
“Egyptian woman with crocheted face covering stands artfully under palm frond.”
Source: Life Images
![Niqab-inspired high fashion
“Even as the great veil debate raged on this month [July, 2009] in France - President Nicolas Sarkozy supports a ban on Muslim women wearing them in public- Paris couturiers paraded all manner of burqas, abayas and niqabs. Now that the shows have ended, we’re left with more questions than answers…
Were designers stating they were for or against the ban? Do they endorse freedom of religious expression or were they speaking out against the oppression of women? Besotted with so many images of the controversial garment in the news recently, perhaps they were simply inspired to put a piece or two on the catwalks. Or, were they out to get press?
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Niqab-inspired high fashion
“Even as the great veil debate raged on this month [July, 2009] in France - President Nicolas Sarkozy supports a ban on Muslim women wearing them in public- Paris couturiers paraded all manner of burqas, abayas and niqabs. Now that the shows have ended, we’re left with more questions than answers…
Were designers stating they were for or against the ban? Do they endorse freedom of religious expression or were they speaking out against the oppression of women? Besotted with so many images of the controversial garment in the news recently, perhaps they were simply inspired to put a piece or two on the catwalks. Or, were they out to get press?
Bhopa Woman, Rajasthan, India
Source: The Hijablog
Niqabi Eyes
Celebrating and embracing the beauty and diversity of the hijabi in art, history, and quotidian life.
