Casting off the Veil

In 1923, when the pioneer of feminist activism, Huda Shaarawi, removed her veil in Cairo''s train station, she created what became a landmark (and much-copied) gesture for feminists throughout Egypt and the Middle East and cemented her status as one of the most important feminists in twentieth-century Egypt. In Casting off the Veil, her granddaughter Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi uses never-before seen...