Students and teachers in all-female schools have been attending classes since the late-September start of the academic year without headscarves and chadors. |
The physical presence of heavy, life-size garment bags evokes the figures of women concealed in chadors increasingly seen in Amer's native Egypt. |
This newsletter will take you to Iran, in its vivid tastes and colors, far from the black of chadors. |
Students dressed in everything from chadors to blue jeans and t-shirts have attended and taken an interest. |
Girls in pretty dresses and women in black chadors waved to the revolutionaries from the rooftops, egging them on to Colonel Qaddafi's compound. |
While wrapped in cumbersome chadors and burq'as, women exercise more rights here than in the ultra-conservative states on the other side of the Persian Gulf. |