In the series of deeply personal interviews that follow this introduction, three women look back on their combined 32 years in the hijab, telling the beautiful and painful stories that inform their perspectives on the current debate.
Marwa Berro was raised as a Lebanese Muslim. She now lives in the United States. Recently, from my vantage as a former fundamentalist Christian and advocate for women, I wrote an article asking whether the hijab is a symbol diversity or oppression. Marwa wrote back and let me know gently but firmly that she and other women from Muslim backgrounds have their own thoughts on the subject.
Head and body coverings for Muslim women have become powerful political symbols in recent years in both North America and Europe. To the American Right, the hijab and burka are visible indicators of a violent clash of cultures or an immigrant invasion. For the political Left—which is reacting against the oppression…
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