Women Students at Cairo University

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Women Students at Cairo University

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Women students wearing Islamic dress in a laboratory in Cairo University. Large numbers of Egyptian women now enter both higher education and the labor force. The adoption of Islamic dress enables them to carve out a legitimate area for themselves in public space and also to redefine that space itself. It signals the determination of women from the heart of Egyptian society to join modern life.

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