Word: chador
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...corrupt leadership is swapped with another, the hypocrisy trickles down. A neighbor who has always had a spot on her cheek now claims she got it from a bullet at a revolutionary demonstration. Another woman who used to flit round the neighborhood in miniskirts suddenly dons a full-length chador. The war with Iraq begins, but the cancers within seem almost as toxic as the bombs outside. Satrapi's mother puts up black curtains to prevent the neighbors from spying on their illegal card games. Satrapi is struck by a slogan on a wall: "To die a martyr...
...produce sold by Shan and northern Thai curbside vendors. A robed and skull-capped young man peddles authentic chocolate croissants under a hand-lettered "Muslim Homemade" banner. His cousin, who presides over the adjacent gun-and-tackle shop?which also sells herbal tea?is barely visible behind her black chador...
Shaking behind her black chador, or veil, 18-year-old Makhutar Mai stood before a jury made up of men who hated her. Mai is a dairy farmer's daughter, a Tatla Gujjar, and the council members before her were all from a higher, landed caste group, the Mastoi Baloch. Mai's brother had dared to romance a girl from the higher caste, and in the dusty mid-day sun of rural Pakistani Punjab, a rowdy crowd gathered to demand eye-for-an-eye-style justice. The six seated elders finally delivered their judgment. To restore the caste's honor...
...site, which has a growing number of imitators, has offered close to 1 million visitors everything from country-specific advice on dress and customs to names of woman-friendly restaurants--all compiled by women who live in the region or travel to it. Leery of wearing a chador? The guide will tell you where you can get away with a long coat. Visiting rural Turkey? Know what time the sun goes down, so you won't get caught on empty streets at night...
...following the February election, which was provoking the conservatives. Losing the parliament was enough of a disappointment for the conservatives, but having the liberal newspapers carrying promises from reformers to sweep away many of the traditions the conservatives hold dear - such as women legislators' vowing not to wear the chador scarf in parliament - was rubbing salt in the wound...