Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lifting the Veil Sir: I thoroughly enjoyed your Nov. 11 article on the emancipation of Moslem women, especially since I was an instructor at Robert College in Istanbul at the time (about the beginning of Ataturk's idea to "westernize" his country) when the Turkish men were forced to throw away their fezzes and the young Turkish girls eagerly discarded their veils. The late Dr. Caleb Gates, president of the college and a very religious man, was a good friend of a wealthy pasha who had four wives. He asked the pasha why it was necessary to have four...
...Mediterranean. Even Parisian roughnecks from la zone (outer slums) are no match for scrappers who slug their way out of the free-for-alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...
Even in the most advanced areas, Moslem woman's emancipation is not yet complete. Moslem husbands are still reluctant to send their wives to male doctors, and Moslem women are reluctant to go. Though girls have increasing voice in their choice of husbands, most defer to their father's wishes. Even the most progressive Moslem men seldom invite even close friends to meet their wives, particularly non-Moslem friends. At the American University of Beirut and Beirut College for Women, modern young Moslem girl students wear blue jeans, go water skiing, do the rock 'n' roll...
Princess Aisha prefers the middle way. Like most of her counterparts in other Moslem nations, she preaches and practices evolution, not revolution. In a recent, speech Aisha said: "To emancipate herself, woman must first of all know herself well. Her evolution, however rapid one might want it to be, must not be a brutal surgical operation, a rupture with the past. The emancipation of woman must be done by her consent, not by her submission." Aiming for that middle way, Aisha and her co-feminists are pushing adult education. "We fear the development of conflict between mother and daughter...
Four Women, Two Veils. In the office of Radio Morocco, the country's government-run station, four young Moslem women sat at their desks one day last week. All wore skirts, high heels and jangly jewelry. When the office closed at 6:30 p.m., two of them powdered their noses and left for home without more ado. But the two others swathed themselves dutifully in djellabah and veil; they were bound for families which did not object to their leaving the house, but demanded adherence at home to the customs of old. Says Princess Aisha: "The veil itself...