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In the 20th century
Challenging traditional practice
through Griet's eyes
Ostensibly a modest treatise on the tea ceremony
we rallied against the bully and got through the year with lots of adventures and good fun
A Quiet Revolution : The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America Condition:Good In the 20th centuryIn 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, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West?