1.   Women don veils and long, shapeless coats, while yellow-and-black Hezbollah flags flutter from telephone poles.

2.   Algiers women who donned veils out of fear of the Islamic militants are now dressing Western-style again, some looking ready for a New York nightclub.

3.   At the end of the school day, she quickly donned the veil again.

4.   Female guests must don a veil.

5.   More female members of the ruling Baath party don the veil.

6.   Women in Arab countries from Sudan to the Persian Gulf are donning the veil in what has become the most overt sign of growing conservatism across the region.

7.   In the past, Islamic administrators have forced schoolgirls to don the veil.