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West strode to the podium in his black suit and tightly-wrapped neck scarf and expounded on the contributions that “brother Tavis” has made to the dialogue about race in America. One such contribution, he said, is a book that Smiley put together called “The Covenant with Black America.” Published earlier this year and known simply as “The Covenant,” the book is a collection of essays by African American experts in various fields—including medicine, education, and technology—about...
...faith. "There is nothing about covering in the book," she explains, when quizzed about why many Muslim women here do not cover up and are passionate in their freedom not to do so, while other women, including the Prime Minister's wife, are equally insistent on wearing a head scarf...
...laid-back Assk caf, right on the waterfront, with her friend Lerna Tutunciyan, 29, who works as a production assistant. Talk turned to head scarves, a particularly thorny issue given Turkish history. (While the traditional male Islamic headgear, the fez, was banned by law in 1925, the head scarf had simply fallen out of use.) Yesilada, who loves to mix Marc Jacobs and Gucci with TopShop pieces, thinks that head scarves should be tolerated. "After all, I wear hats. But I get concerned when I see someone veiled in black," she adds. "That's just not what this country...
...gift certificate to Mint Julep, which will buy her...nothing. 9) For the wannabe musician: an hour lesson with the man who plays the erhu in the Square, $13.75. 10) For the image-conscious Hist and Lit concentrator: a Starbucks paper cup to compliment her Uggs and Burberry scarf, $0.20. 11) For your vegan blockmate: 11 Optimum Energy Blueberry Flax Soy meal replacement bars from the Vitamin Shoppe, $14.66. 12) For your boyfriend: a pair of earrings from Zinnia (for when he forgets to buy you a gift), $6.99. 13) Make your own model kit for molecular bio (marshmallows...
...European tolerance more threatened by hijab head-scarf, or even the face-covering niqab - and the Islamic fundamentalism and subjugation of women critics ascribe to these symbols - or by the hypocrisy and low-grade xenophobia of those telling Muslim women that this attack on their religious practice is really for their own good? Beneath all the reminders of secularist tradition and progressive discourse cited in Europe's headscarf debate lies the mean, provincial "not in our country, you don't" attitude - even when many of the women at whom it's addressed to were born and raised in "our country...