A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America by Leila Ahmed

A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

Leila Ahmed

360 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today,...

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