Revealing reveiling

Increased use of Islamic dress among the women of the Middle East the more visible signs of increased religiosity and often of allegiance to Islamist organizations. In Revealing Reveiling Sherifa Zuhur examines aspects of this phenomenon and proposed explanations for its popularity in Egypt in the early 1990s. In prominent Muslim countries such as Turkey, Iran and Morocco political leaders escorted unveiled female family members in public in order to influence women to abandon traditional dress. In Egypt, political leaders never linked women's dress to nationalist sentiment or political…