Dear Reader,
When I lived in Egypt a little over a decade ago, a group of Western women whom I knew befriended a local girl and tried to persuade her that she should stop wearing a hijab.
The incident caused quite a bit of debate in my circle of friends. Were they helping her to take a step towards female emancipation? Or, was it…
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