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Miriam Berger
A few weeks ago, Fatma Nabil, an anchor for Egypt’s state-owned TV Channel 1, became a news item herself when she appeared on air wearing the previously banned hijab covering her ears, neck, and hair. “At last the revolution has reached state television,” Nabil told the BBC.
Under Hosni Mubarak’s regime, news anchors were forbidden from wearing the hijab, commonly translated as...
