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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Women in white march to defend Algeria tradition
Covered from head to toe in white, their faces partly masked by embroidered triangular cloths, Algerian women marched through the capital Thursday to defend their traditional Islamic dress.
“We want to sweep away these clothes which come from Saudi Arabia, black, sad and stifling under the sun, to return to our traditional ‘haik’ which is the pride of Algerian women,” said one, posing in front of the landmark central post office in Algiers.
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Young Algerian women went mostly uncovered before the 1990s, but started wearing the veil under pressure from Islamists during the “black decade,” when an Islamist insurgency and its repression brought the country to its knees.
Since then, the veil has become fashionable in some circles, coming in all different colours, and folded in many different ways to cover the neck and hair.
Many young women are not shy about using bright makeup, even though they are expected to hide their hair and not attract male attention.
By contrast, the niqab or black full-face veil has also made an appearance in Algeria since the 1990s, as in many other Arab countries, with the women beneath them even wearing gloves to cover their hands, only their eyes visible.
“The hijab and the niqab are not a part of our tradition,” said Souad.
“But the haik can enhance today’s women, with its lightness and elegance.”
Fifty years after Algeria’s hard-fought independence from France, Abdelkader Achour, president of an association devoted to protecting local traditions, says the white dress played a crucial role in the nationalist struggle.
“Algerian women carried bombs and machineguns under the haik (during the 1954-1962 war of independence). She crossed the street carrying from one place to another these weapons that were used against the French,” he said.
And while the occupation soldiers searched Algerian men, they didn’t touch the women.
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who the fuck says sozza
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IM LAUGHONIG SO HARD
BIBLE
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i recks that this rando is totes frothin
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bible, its totes ridonc how inapporpes this is, how hilar.
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No one fears a pregnant woman. Especially one whose husband has run away.
The Sport of Camel Jumping (happy Leap Day!)
Among the members of the Zaraniq tribe on the west coast of Yemen are, apparently, the world’s only professional camel jumpers.
Read more and view more photos at Smithsonian.com.
Photo by Adam Reynolds
Honestly Yemenis would serve as the Arabs best athletes if they were properly funded. No lie. Most energetic, athletic people I have ever met.
Growing up mixed-race 