Word: veilless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan for the windup of their genial father's U.S. visit, Morocco's veilless Princesses Aisha (TIME, Nov. n), Malika and Nuzha met local newsfolk, acquitted themselves well through French and Arabic interpreters. Their little sister Amina, 4. skipped the conference in favor of a nap. A newshen inquired: "Is the Princess Aisha engaged?" Ignoring her linguistic aides, Aisha snapped a prompt no in English. Then someone inquired whether dynamic Feminist Aisha is regarded by Moroccan women as her country's own Joan of Arc. "Certainly not!" she replied, eyes twinkling. "Wasn't she known...
...second wife. In Egypt and Lebanon, Turkey and Syria-where for centuries the life of a woman was described proverbially as "from the womb of her mother to the house of her father, from there to the house of her husband, from there to the tomb"-women shop veilless in the markets, dance in nightclubs, train as nurses, drive cars unescorted, even vote. In the last ten years, Islam's women have achieved a greater change in status than in the preceding ten hundred...
...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...
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