On its own, the higab should be a non-issue since the number of Muslim women wearing it are still a tiny minority, although by all accounts a growing one. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The vast majority of Muslim women in Egypt put on the headscarf, known as the higab, either for religious or social reasons, but there's little expectation that Christians wear it. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The demand that all students wear the higab was a decision by administrators and teachers at the high school in Sheik Fadl, 110 miles 180 kilometers south of Cairo in Minya province. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Even though she didn't wear the traditional higab (head scarf), and prayed and fasted only sporadically, she was uncomfortable with the partylike atmosphere of her college dorms. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"But then you see a woman in a higab who talks about med school and you think, 'If she can do that, I can do this'." ❋ Unknown (2008)
At Pizza Hut, I thought I'd hit pay dirt after encountering a young woman who looked every inch the modern suffragette -- drainpipe jeans, strappy silver stilettos and a higab studded with purple rhinestones. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Banning the higab is not a way of creating a more peaceful society, but more a way of oppressing followers of a religion that conflict with certain government agendas. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Those very same women were shocked in 1983 when Ayatollah Khomeini's new Islamic government amended the Iranian Constitution to require them to wear the higab in public -- or risk receiving up to 74 lashes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But those who wear the higab in the West must be honest enough to admit they are making a political or social statement instead of pretending they are somehow following a nonnegotiable edict of Islam, because they are not. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He went on: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her higab, no problem would have occurred." ❋ Unknown (2007)
If we are to stop Muslims from wearing the higab, shouldn't we also stop Christians from wearing crosses around their necks or make nuns wear more appropriate Western clothing in public? ❋ Unknown (2007)
In Kuwait, the Western obsession with the higab feels overwrought. ❋ Unknown (2007)
With her glasses, plump rosy cheeks and white crocheted higab, Souad Salah looks more like a grandmother than a revolutionary. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For liberal Western societies, the debate over the higab -- a scarf that covers the head but not the face -- crystallizes a key modern dilemma: how to reconcile the commitment to protecting freedom of expression with the ideal of integration and social cohesion? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Moreover, mature and liberal Western societies must be expected to accept the higab as much as they accept any other form of nonmainstream attire as part of the freedom of individual choice that forms the bedrock of our liberty. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As was pointed out in your article, Tony Blair described the higab as "a mark of separation." ❋ Unknown (2007)
I've watched them argue politics with men at the dinner table in Baghdad, slap husbands on the back of the head for telling off-color jokes in Egypt and, at a recent Arab Women's Media Conference in Amman, fiercely debate their notions of democracy from under higab s and J. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Often, the grounds can be as trivial as the mosque a family attends or the decision of its women to don the higab, according to Oleg Orlov at the Memorial human-rights group in Moscow. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Muslim Women and the VeilThe heated debate in Europe about the higab ( "Beyond the Veil," Nov. 27) is a mere fig leaf hiding broader fear about Islam, immigration and European cultural identity. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Men and women are completely segregated, and the women are strongly encouraged to wear higab (head scarves) or burqas. ❋ Unknown (2007)
