In this four part series, 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. The other parts can be found here: Part 1 (Politics and Piety); Part 3 (Reem Abdel-Razek); Part 4 (Heina Dadabhoy).
Marwa Berro (a pen name) is a Lebanese-American Ex-Muslim, writer, and philosopher. She has been an expat most of my life, growing up between Saudi Arabia and her native Lebanon, and living now in the United States. She writes narrative essays and reasoned critique of the societal structures that govern Muslim-majority societies at Between a Veil and a Dark Place and offers support to other women questioning Islam at Hi Reddit!.
Tarico: How long did you wear hijab, and what did it mean to you at the time?
Berro: I wore the hijab…
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