How We Learned to Love the Veil
Posted in Journal on Feb 21st, 2007
Late last year, I sat sipping coffee at an ultra-modern shopping mall in Dubai, watching Iranian women on holiday glide past me with shopping bags and euphoric expressions. Although it was gulf-hot outside, many were dressed as they would be in Tehran, in snug coats known as manteau and gem-colored head scarves, an ensemble that [...]