21.   Outside Beirut airport, veiled women waved Hezbollah flags and bearded Shiite men beat their chests in a traditional gesture of mourning.

22.   A veiled Palestinian woman stumbled as she tried to get out of the line of fire.

23.   Another depicts a group of three veiled women.

24.   Armed soldiers pushed back veiled women so eager to vote that they crowded into polling stations.

25.   Down the street, a Muslim butcher shop frequented by veiled women is a sign of recent immigration from the Islamic world.

26.   During first-round voting, many veiled Bahraini women filled polling stations.

27.   Heavily veiled women sit in the middle of cratered roads begging motorists for money.

28.   Illegal beer flows freely at the Petit Paris nightclub, where veiled women and men in billowing desert robes slither under strobelights.

29.   In Cairo, young men strolled along the Nile, tossing firecrackers behind groups of veiled women, provoking laughs and screams.

30.   In its bid to overrule any attempts at voter fraud, the government ordered veiled women to uncover their faces in the presence of female election workers.