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Women by the hundreds steamed into Rabat to pay their respects to Morocco's newly re-enthroned Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. Some were old, some young; some fat, some thin, some rich and some poor, but all had one thing in common: their faces were unveiled...
...like most feminine fashion, from an instinct for artful concealment-has largely disappeared from many modernized corners of Islam, but in Morocco it has hung on to become a symbol of woman's enslavement. Inside the palace, however, sits Morocco's foremost champion of unveiling: the Sultan's own daughter, Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha...
...Missionary. Actually, the Sultan has only himself to thank for Aisha's militant feminist career. When Aisha was 16 years old, veilless and innocent of all social problems, she was put on a platform to deliver a speech written by her father demanding more rights for women. "I didn't know what it was all about," she recalls, "but after I delivered the speech, I began to understand what had to be done...
...time, Aisha's agitating and her father's condonement of it provided fine ammunition for the Sultan's enemies. Conniving old El Glaoui, scheming with...
French to oust the Sultan, made a practice of indignantly exhibiting like a filthy postcard a picture of the Sultan's daughter clad in a bathing suit. Aisha herself made so many speeches on female emancipation that the French Resident General ordered her to stop. When at last in 1953 El Glaoui had his way and the French packed Ben Youssef into exile with two wives and a few favorite concubines, the aroused women of Morocco were the first to unite in demand for his return. Many were killed in street fighting. Others did their strike duty at home...