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Women, the Hajab and the Intifadaarticle 1990 • Hammami, Rema
Palestinians • Middle East > Middle East
This is an account of the campaign during the Intifada to impose on all Gaza women the wearing of the HAJIB, or headscarf. Identified with peasant women, the HAJIB was largely dispensed with by a growing educated, urban, and petit bourgeois class of ...