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« Covered: The Hejab in Cairo, Egypt » Clip 2 (in English & Arabic, with English subtitles)
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Bien des femmes égyptiennes éduquées portent le voile pour faire connaître leur religion et leurs croyances aux autres. Une femme qui a été interviewée a dit que des musulmanes égyptiennes portent aussi le voile pour se protéger contre les hommes et pour symboliser leur désaccord avec la commercialisation occidentale du corps féminin.
Many educated Egyptian women who don the Muslim head covering do so to display their religious beliefs. Another woman who was interviewed said that Muslim women in Egypt wore the veil as a form of protection from men as well as a way to symbolize their disagreement with the western commercialization of the female body.
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