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A Veiled Revolution
VHS
26 minutes
HQ1784 .W671 1982 no.1
Egypt was the first Arab country where women marched in political demonstrations (1919); the first where women took off the veil (1923); and the first to offer free public secular education to women (1924). Today the granddaughters of those early Arab feminists are returning to traditional garb, sometimes with full face veil and gloveds, which they call Islamic dress. What are the reasons for this new movement? Is it an echo of the Iranian revolution? Is it a rejection of Western values? What do women themselves say about it? A Veiled Revolution looks at some of this history, and attempts to answer some of these questions.
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