31. Dressed in his trademark fatigues and keffiyeh head scarf, Arafat waved and smiled to the Norwegian crowds that had awaited his arrival and clapped politely in greeting. 32. Fatima Salihu, a young woman in a white head scarf, was beside him. 33. Few of the women in the room wore the traditional head scarves. 34. Garofalo often wore the head scarf of a devout Muslim during her trips through obscure border crossings. 35. Girls tuck baseball caps under their head scarves and apply makeup and fingernail polish once they have passed checkpoints. 36. He abolished the sultanate, banned religious brotherhoods, adopted Latin script to replace Arabic and banned the fez, the veil and the head scarf. 37. He urged the military to stop insisting that female university students be forbidden to wear head scarves, but powerful generals quickly slapped him down. 38. He is wearing a flowing snow-white jellabah and a gold head scarf, his hand stuck out in the universal thumbs-up sign. 39. He was also an observant Muslim who had threatened to expel two female Muslim lawyers for defying a ban against wearing head scarves in the courtroom. 40. If there is still a stereotype that women who wear Muslim head scarves are meek and submissive, Ms. Kavakci destroys it as soon as she begins to speak. |