Leila Ahmed was the first professor of Women's Studies in Religion at Harvard University. She grew up in the Egypt of the 1940s, raised by a generation of Muslim women who never dressed in veils and head scarves. Today many Muslim women throughout the Islamic world and beyond are choosing to cover themselves and wear "Islamic dress". She talk about this in "A Quiet Revolution".
The Steady Erosion of Women's Rights in Egypt: A Photographic Story:
http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/01/28/the-steady-erosion-of-women...
The erosion of women's rights in Egypt, illustrated:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/the-erosion-of-womens-rights-in-egypt-illus...
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