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...under the rule of the secular Fatah party. As he offers visitors a bowl of fruit, al-Bitawi recalls how, after returning to the West Bank from religious studies in Jordan in the 1970s, he looked for a future wife who covered herself in the traditional hijab, or head scarf, and the body- length jilbab. "I couldn't find a girl for months," he says. "Nowadays, 70% of Palestinian women wear these clothes. It's normal." To al-Bitawi, the change is a sign that more Palestinians are adopting the fundamentalist values that Hamas espouses. "Of course we would love...
...unnoticed by the makeover masters at Mattel. In the face of years of criticism, Nurse Barbie had turned into Doctor Barbie, Stewardess Barbie into Astronaut Barbie, with a host of multicultural friends. There was even Barbie for President 2004 in a trim red pantsuit with a Stars-and-Stripes scarf...
...Harvard’s campus, Huma Farid ’06 reported this November that a group of women yelled “filthy Jew-hater” at her because of her Muslim background. At the time of the verbal attack, Farid was wearing the hijab, or head scarf, indicating her Muslim faith...
...1970s. I’m not asking them to wear an apron. I’m granting them the opportunity to wear a linen apron in my house in Corfu, just for show. While wearing heels. “Oooo, bend over to pick up that cashmere scarf, baby.” And the only girls who want to get in my pants, er, wallet, er pants, are the ones who already have linen aprons. Who is to know what...
...than you can blink. And she does it all while smiling a snarl, exclaiming infectious nonsense (“Got To!”), and recalling her many enviously silly escapades. She’s basically everything FM wants to be, wrapped up in a puffy jacket and Burberry scarf. You wish you could make it look so easy...