Covid gives niqab a helping hand
Apr 07, 2021
2 minutes
ANNA PIELA
Wikimedia Commons
FACE masks are new terrain for many, who find themselves unable to recognise neighbours and are unsure how to engage socially without using facial expressions.
But not for Muslim women who wear the niqab or Islamic face veil. Suddenly, these women – who are often received in the West with open hostility for covering their faces – look a lot more like everyone else.
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