Material Worlds: Art and Agency in the Near East and Africa: The Niqab: Materiality at the Crossroads of Gender, Religion, Politics, and Culture

1925 WAFD women's committee meeting at which only 4 women wore veils; the rest were "hijabed" (dressed wtih a head scarf only).

Uploaded Image Huda Shaarawi at age 44 in one of the first photographs of an unveiled Egyptian woman to appear in local newspapers.

Uploaded Image Huda Shaarawi at an international feminist conference in Rome, without the niqab she had grown up with.

Uploaded Image The niqab and hijab as a site of women's resistance as well as identity.

Uploaded Image The Odalisque, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Uploaded Image The Odalisque and Slave Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres