abaya

• “A small minority of Muslim women in certain parts of the world wear what is known as the abaya (black cloak) and the niqab (face veil).”

  The Huffington Post: Kari Ansari: Telling Muslim Women What Not To Wear

• “Pinned to the abaya was a message that read, “She was a collaborator against Islam.””

  Alas, a blog » 2006 » July

• “State Department guidelines note, for example, that the religious police can "pressure women to wear" the full-length black covering known as an abaya, "and to cover their heads.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “The abaya is a long over-garment essentially a robe-like dress with black as the most predominant color among Muslim women.”

  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed

• “While the women have to wear a long, black cloak known as abaya in public, they are often in resplendent gowns at elaborate high-society functions and weddings.”

  canada.com Top Stories

• “ in which a man disguised as a women – i.e., dressed in a traditional black, full-body covering called the abaya – stalks women and enters their homes.”

  Middle Eastern Women Directors Use Films as Social Commentary

• “The man held up an 'abaya', a black cloak-like garment some females choose to wear, and pointed at the shivering girl.”

  THE NEWS BLOG

• “At the end of the so-called glorious July war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, a woman desperate in meeting her lord almighty contacted and begged his fellow servants to be given the "abaya" worn by Sayed Hassan Nasrallah.”

  The Ouwet Front: A Lebanese Forces Blog

• “Saunders said her cultural experiences were varied - she was advised by hotel staff not to walk to a nearby ATM, even though wearing the women's traditional "abaya" robe because she was alone.”

  KentNewsNet.com

• “The abaya policy in Saudi Arabia and the wearing of the Muslim headscarf in a war zone in Afghanistan are cut from this same flawed thinking.”

  The Washington Post: Why American troops in Afghanistan shouldn't have to wear headscarves

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