NARGESS AND THE HIJAB
June 24, 2015 / Glen Reynolds
“It’s all about choice” Nargess in The Monas Novels would say. Women having a choice – and when I lived and worked in Tehran, a choice as to whether and how to interpret their faith, was hugely significant for Iranian women. They do not wish to be bullied by their own regime, nor by the West. A recent Guardian video was spot on – as Nargess would say, for her the wearing of the hijab is a feminist statement…