1.   She bowed to family advice and left her Islamic veils at home.

2.   They can wear their age like an Islamic veil, passing through life unobserved and embracing obscurity.

3.   Touring Blida, soldiers amused themselves by counting how many women were covered in the black head-to-toe Islamic veil.

4.   Women may not attend school or participate in public functions if they choose to don the Islamic veil.

5.   A blue and gold embroidered Islamic veil conceals her face, but her voice is forlorn, lacking the joy and openness for which her people are noted.

6.   Lashkar-e-Jabbar members have threatened to throw acid on women who do not cover themselves in Islamic veils.

7.   The Islamic veil, or hijab, includes the still-mandatory head covering.

8.   A Cairo administrative court on Tuesday ordered the suspension of a ministerial decree prohibiting girls from wearing the Islamic veil to school without written permission from their parents.

9.   According to press reports, her absence was due to advice from religious clerics who said her presence would contradict her decision to wear the Islamic veil.

10.   The Cairo administrative court on Tuesday ordered the suspension of a ministerial decree prohibiting girls from wearing the Islamic veil to school without written permission from their parents.