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Tu July 19 -

THE TELLTALE NIQAB? -

Issandr El Amrani of The Arabist
Network [see sidebar] has researched
and written a "backgrounder" on
Magdy Al Nashar,"The Chemist."

*Some reports, however, suggested that the husband of Al Nashar's sister Mona could be a link to fundamentalist groups. Neighbors of the Al Nashar family in Bassatine said that Mona had been made to wear the niqab, the full face veil considered extreme by most Egyptian Muslims.*

:: From Cairo Magazine ::

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