04 January 2010

One woman's account of having to cover her head in Iraq

"You have to wear a hijab," my husband told me shortly after we got married. "Don't argue with me over this issue." With those words, he started imposing his will. It was the first tax I had to pay for getting married, the same one many of my female friends have had to pay in a country that sometimes pretends to be secular .... [Washington Post] Read more