“A hijab-wearing Muslim is now one of the beautiful faces of CoverGirl”

Last updated on: November 4, 2016 at 10:37 pm   by
“A hijab-wearing Muslim is now one of the beautiful faces of CoverGirl”

 

Sultan Hasan and al-Rifa‘i
In the background are, on the left, the fourteenth-century Madrasa and Mosque of Sultan Hasan and, on the right, the Mosque of al-Rifa‘i, which was completed in the early twentieth century. They are two of my favorite buildings in Cairo and, as a matter of fact, I lectured to one of my classes about them just this past Thursday. The woman in blue is standing on Cairo’s Citadel, looking roughly westward toward the Nile.  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

This would have been unimaginable not too many years ago:

 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/us/cover-girl-muslim-afia-trnd/index.html

 

It’s progress.   And I’m pleased.

 

 

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