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  • Wafa Hoteit, a stern traditional religious woman, or muhajaba, who wore her headscarf primly and tightly fastened around her head, replaced her voluble and flirtatious pedecessor.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • The Hezbollah guide leading me through the display was an eighteen-year-old film student and muhajaba, from the same family as the bomber.

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

  • Hussein said the hijab created a whole new layer of embarrassment, for even in your own house if you stumbled across a muhajaba who was bareheaded, perhaps on the way to pray, “it makes you feel like you’ve barged into a room where they’re naked.”

    A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010

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