What Lies Behind The Veil
The changing face of women in the Middle East
S. Sree Ram Reddy NFO Worldwide (Middle East & Africa)Racha Makarem NFO Worldwide (Middle East & Africa)
Setting the Context
. 'To be a Muslim woman is to live incognito, and to make doubly sure Arab society places women behind bars. The Arab home was to become a stone veil.' (Sexuality in Islam, London, Rutledge and Kegan Paul, 1985)
This aptly sums up what outsiders feel about Arab women in general, and women of the Gulf in particular. The...