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Women and Style in Iran

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Morals Police, Women, Hejab, Chador, Lebanon, Wafaa Suleiman, Beauty, Iranian, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Religion, Veil, Revolutionary Guards, Revolution, Islamic Republic, Randa Berri, Azam Al-Sadat Farahi, Eyebrows, Hijab, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

Religious women in Iran, whether they wear a chador or not, tend to at least some basic elements of beauty. Ahmadinejad's wife Farahi has belied even that.

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I See Belgium, I See France: I See the Burqa's Last Dance

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Women's Rights, Persian Gulf, France, Public Dress, Chador, Nudity, Extremist, Veiling, European, England, Public Veiling, Public Nudity, Veil, Niqab, Female Rights, Society, Belgium, Women, Segregate, Neqab, Hijab, Girl, Hejab, Woman, Public, Headscarf, Abaya, Dubai, Burqa, Covering, Girls, Gender Equality, Underwear, Segregation, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

For some governments, banning burqas about placing a legal element of moderation on public dress. Worldwide today, total nudity is usually illegal, these governments are simply saying that the other extreme is also not acceptable.

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