Word: hijab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Muslim. Sameera Fazili '00 wears a head scarf called a hijab. She explains, "People have a lot of preconceived notions about what a Muslim is supposed to be like--especially a Muslim woman. They assume I'm going to be either quiet and subservient or violent and terrorist....In airports, they check my bags three times over. Even when the metal detector doesn't beep when I go through it, they scan...
...much harder could it be to dress as a Muslim? After tolerating rude stares and whistles, I'm prepared for anything, I think. My other roommate, Sameera, wears a hijab, so she lends me an ivory one along with a long, loose navy-colored robe. We laugh as we walk out of the dorm together, wondering if people will really think I'm Muslim...
...praises of some features of Western democracy. He avoids the austere robes that are de rigueur for bearded hard-liners and favors smart Italian-style sport jackets. In 22 years of marriage, he says, he has never pressured his attractive wife to cover her hair with the Islamic hijab, as required by strictly observant Muslims. "Yes, I have a beard, but I trim it every day so that my wife can kiss me on both cheeks," says Abdul Koddus, laughing, as he offers a silver tray of Oriental cookies and mint tea to visitors at his luxurious Cairo apartment...
...like Madonna and Michael Jackson." By their way of dress, Iranians signal where they stand in the cultural divide. Devout revolutionaries wear dark colors. Men favor baggy trousers, long-sleeved shirts buttoned to the neck and several days' growth of beard; women wear layers of Islamic clothing known as hijab, including the magneh (a headdress) and the chador. On the other side, the garbzadeh -- literally, "those poisoned by the West" -- wear jeans and colored short-sleeved shirts if they are men; the women wear a raincoat-like "uniform," or manteau, and tie their scarves loosely...
...falls. There are still severe human rights abuses, due to a combination of poor accountability in the courts and Islamic injunctions and punishments, including the widespread use of the death sentence for offenses like drug trafficking. Iranians are still scared, even as they dare to test the limits of hijab. Says a young woman who strongly opposes the Islamic regime: "If this is a transitional stage, if we have learned from past mistakes, this may be the beginning of something good." The challenge for Rafsanjani is to turn a revolutionary regime into a popular...