A Quiet Revolution : The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009) Whether it’s fear of commitment

Whether it’s fear of commitment

Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home

and it lies with June's eleven-year-old daughter

truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube

This student edition contains fully annotated

A Quiet Revolution : The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009) Whether it’s fear of commitmentIn Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West?