Dis-covering Muslim Women: A Survey of Recent Literature on Veiling

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I personally think these oppositions come from a misjudgement of 
some contemporary facts, such as the Taliban government in 
Afghanistan; so I decided not to specifically mention them, but only to 
give a general account of them 2. 
The third way of thinking still deals with the opinions of Western 
writers, but in this case their writings represent an attempt “to 
understand and let people understand” the veil phenomenon in a more 
complete way. 
Their articles always collect interviews and testimonies of Muslim 
women; they often describe the historical, religious and ethnographic 
proofs of the ancient and contemporary values of the veil.  
The authors taken into consideration are: Stanley Kurtz, “Veil of 
Fears: Why They Veil, Why We Should Leave it Alone- Afghan women”, 
National Review, 2002; Sondra Hale, “The West and Veiling”, lecture 
presented at the UCLA Forum “On Veiling and the Media”, 1998; 
Darnell Cole and Shafiqa Ahmadi, “Perspectives and Experiences of 
Muslim Women Who Veil on College Campuses”, Journal of College 
Student Development, Iowa State University, 2003; Michelle 
Rosenberg, “Muslim Women Offer a Glimpse Behind the Veil”, 
Independent, London, 2005 3. 
                                                
2
 See for instance Rose V. Lindgren “When Foreign Intervention is Justified- Women 
under the Taliban”, Humanist, 2002; Elizabeth Drevillon “Kabul: Women in the 
Shadows- Afghanistan”, Unesco Courier, 1998; “Muslim Women Arrested under Law 
Aimed at KKK”, Jet, 1996.