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A Quiet Revolution The Veil s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

Leila Ahmed

In 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...

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The Ezra Klein Show

It was highlighted as the inside story of the McGovernFraser Commission and the rule changes it sparked.

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And I'd end with Quiet Revolution by Byron Shafer, which is the inside story of the McGovernFraser Commission and how people didn't really understand what was happening when they made all these rule c...

— Episode: How an Open Democratic Convention Would...

Episode: How an Open Democratic Convention Would Work

It was highlighted as the inside story of the McGovernFraser Commission and the rule changes it sparked.

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And I'd end with Quiet Revolution by Byron Shafer, which is the inside story of the McGovernFraser Commission and how people didn't really understand what was happening when they made all these rule changes.

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