Word: burqas
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...read you can almost feel Hosseini's range as a writer expanding. The Kite Runner was pretty much exclusively about men; Suns is largely about women--in the interest of authenticity Hosseini actually tried on a burqa. ("Just to see what it felt like," he says. "Nobody was around. It steals your breath away. It's really hard to get used to.") In The Kite Runner we witnessed, from a distance, one of the Taliban's infamous executions by Kalashnikov in a soccer stadium. In Suns we experience a similar execution firsthand, from the point of view of the victim...
...Kabul Beauty School, her amusing, inspiring account of good intentions gone platinum, with streaks. Rodriguez had worked as a beautician in Michigan, and when word of her skills got out, fellow aid workers besieged her for haircuts. Before long, she realized her real destiny was training Afghanistan's oppressed, burqa-encased women to support themselves as hairdressers...
...guide's village is even closer to the border; he fled for the relative safety of Khost just after the attack. He refused to take us to the town, for fear of attack, and wouldn't let me go, either. He said that even disguised in a burqa, the way I walked would give me away as a foreigner, and my presence would create problems for the village. Instead, he said, Balazs could go, accompanied by Hajji Muslim's son - Balazs is Hungarian, and his black beard and dark eyes made it easier for him to pass. Maybe too well...
Ideas for a spot called "The World Without America," designed to combat the "rampant anti-Americanism" that Doughty Street says has taken hold in Britain, included a closing shot of the Statue of Liberty swathed in a burqa. The winning entry is based on mocked-up newscasts from earlier decades, reporting events that might have occurred without the benign influence of the U.S. A final screen flashes a selection of great American contributions to civilization: "A free Afghanistan," "Dishwasher" and "Elvis Presley." After spoofs of the ad sprouted on YouTube--"Slavery," "Nuclear Bomb" and "Vietnam War," retorted one--the original...
...when they look at a veil, all some lawmakers see is trouble. Since France banned overt religious symbols in its state schools in 2004, veiled women - whether they wear a head scarf, a niqab or a full-body burqa - have been caught in a storm of debate in Europe. As a British citizen, Awan still has the right to wear whatever she wants. Several German states, by contrast, prohibit Muslim teachers from wearing head scarves in class. In parts of Belgium, civil servants are banned from wearing head scarves at work, and the Dutch government plans to make it illegal...