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The Steady Erosion of Women's Rights in Egypt: A Photographic Story




by Phyllis Chesler

Pajamas Media

January 28, 2010



http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/690/erosion-of-women-rights-in-egypt













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Excerpt:

These photos, sent by my good friend Tareq Heggy, speak volumes about the politicization of the Islamic Veil. In the 1950s, Cairo University graduates were not veiled. By the twenty first century, the veiling of educated women was fully underway.



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