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Hijabs... Habeck... ha-choo!

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Jörg Luyken
Jun 22, 2025
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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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