Word: abaya
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...love to move to Baghdad if the security situation had allowed. She told friends she felt she had made a connection with the Iraqi culture. Clad in jeans and sweaters while inside the hotel compound where she lived, she chose to go outside on assignments wearing the full-length abaya that more and more Iraqi women are donning since the fall of Saddam Hussein?s regime. She speaks Arabic well enough to get by, but employed a translator, Enwiyah, an Iraqi Christian, for complicated interviews. Her language skills have allowed her to interview Iraqis on the streets, and she said...
...most immodest garb imaginable, a talking Fulla doll might exclaim, as the Oct. 13 Salient’s parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going to the bazaar, perhaps Fulla, unlike Barbie, would have to seek out her misplaced abaya, the full-length garment that her culture and her religion require her to wear while outdoors.The Salient parody imagines a great deal. And so, when our imagined Fulla speaks, the greater subservience shown by Muslim wives to their husbands manifests itself in the acquiescent statement, “Yes, Husband...
...Gasolina,” [by Abaya]. It was the first time I’d heard [Reggaetone]. It was in my lab – sleep deprivation research. We’d listen to it and bond while number-crunching, with the subjects hooked up to electrodes downstairs...
...varying degrees in different places--for fear they might arouse the lust of men other than their husbands. The Koran instructs women to "guard their modesty," not to "display their beauty and ornaments" and to "draw their veils." Saudi women typically don a billowy black cloak called an abaya, along with a black scarf and veil over the face; morality police enforce the dress code by striking errant women with sticks. The women of Iran and Sudan can expose the face but must cover the hair and the neck...
...varying degrees in different places--for fear they might arouse the lust of men other than their husbands. The Koran instructs women to "guard their modesty," not to "display their beauty and ornaments" and to "draw their veils." Saudi women typically don a billowy black cloak called an abaya, along with a black scarf and veil over the face; morality police enforce the dress code by striking errant women with sticks. The women of Iran and Sudan can expose the face but must cover the hair and the neck...