The Dutch lower house votes to ban face veils in public places The Dutch lower house votes to ban face veils in public places The Dutch parliament voted overwhelmingly Thursday in favor of a ban on women wearing face veils in public places.
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In secular France, civil servants cannot wear hair-covering veils during working hours and face-covering veils are banned for everybody in the public space.
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Police officers can also ask travelers walking on the sidewalk to remove veils for identification, though veils are allowed on public streets under the law.
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Rich's work wears veils, but the private life leaks out.
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Mr. Habjan's Dance of the Seven Veils isn't a striptease.
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Many of the women were forced to remove their veils.
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It provided subtext—those mysteriously alluring and tempting women behind veils.
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Should veils, for example, be worn by Muslim students at school?
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Jail booking photos show them wearing traditional Muslim veils or hijabs.
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He asked them to lift their veils and examined their faces.
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Her veils, both long and short, range from $214 to $25.
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She was a writer who insisted on more veils, more masks.
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Yet UNESCO's resolution veils, if thinly, a much more sinister objective.
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I'm in favor of dismantling and the pulling back of veils.
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Women there have been ordered not to wear veils on their faces.
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Designer Evey of Los Angeles, California, designs dresses and veils with lights.
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But in 2011, for example, France banned certain kinds of Muslim veils.
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Wearing backward caps atop discrete-but-compulsory veils, girls skate with boys.
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Women are attacked with acid and arrested for dancing without wearing veils.
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Still, regulations preventing women from covering their faces with veils still exist.
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There's no proposal pending to ban face veils in the United Kingdom.
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The assaults extended to Muslim women, whose face veils were torn off.
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Protesters gathered in Copenhagen wearing burqas and face veils of all types.
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The documents reveal the surprising extent of art ownership behind such veils.
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When I thought about veils, I thought of Victorian photographs of widows.
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The human removed its veils and tossed them onto the tiled floor.
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We were against religious symbols long before the first veils came here.
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Somali women in full veils lay on the sidewalk on their backs.
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Along with national laws aimed at the Islamic veils in public places in France, Austria, and Belgium, lawmakers in the Netherlands have proposed a similar law and individual cities in Spain and Italy have put restrictions on the veils.
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Instead of veils, both Tortorella and Meyers completed their looks with regal crowns.
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Men in this category dress in dark black robes, women wear white veils.
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When it comes to bridal beauty looks, veils will always be a classic.
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The women even sported white mouse ears with veils hanging from the accessories.
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Ahead, we chose 10 veils with distinctly modern vibes for the alternative bride.
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Meat shops in Noida, just outside of Delhi, are being covered with 'veils.
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When I did, they were fully covered in hijabs and niqabs (face veils).
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Several other countries have enacted bans or attempted to criminalize full-face veils.
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Belgium also banned full-face veils in 2011, a year after France did so.
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As anticipated, the red carpet saw a tizzy of veils, headdresses, halos, and crowns.
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A string of young girls — too young — wearing veils and white dresses walk out.
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In Germany, even Angela Merkel has expressed support for a ban on face veils.
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Veils of rain, parted for a second by the house, rush back together again.
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These enforcers intimidate, fine, and beat women who improperly don their legally mandated veils.
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The book thinly veils the identities of the men heavily involved in her life.
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They wear all black: veils to cover their faces, pointed hats, and long smocks.
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Human rights advocates say the law unfairly singles out Muslim women who wear veils.
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A pair of dancers crouch low under white cloth veils, emphasizing their muscular physiques.
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An earlier version of this article described incorrectly regulations on face veils in Quebec.
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Its ranks include female fighters who don't wear veils and shake hands with men.
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Everyone plays peekaboo through the veils and beaded curtains of the heavily dressed set.
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It's more like the immaterial swirl of veils in the dances of Loie Fuller.
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Signs across Xinjiang forbid long beards and full veils, and surveillance cameras are everywhere.
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It also begs for bling in the form of sparkling hair accessories, veils, and tiaras.
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Veils are lifted, and greater understanding can be gained while these two planets work together.
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Women in face veils are prohibited from walking the streets, using hospitals or public transport.
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You'll find fishnet, flowers of all shades, updated veils, and some more unlikely inspiration, ahead.
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In March, the government banned veils and the growing of long beards — traditional Muslim customs.
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A Georgia state legislator has introduced legislation that would ban burqas and traditional Muslim veils.
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Once the door was shut, they removed their veils and took off their head scarves.
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Backstage Beauty Report At Dries Van Noten's spring/summer 2017 show, several models wore veils.
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I met two young women in black abayas and face veils who were studying physics.
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Bare legs, exposed shoulders and long blond hair mixed with head scarves and black veils.
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Faith here is nothing more than a disingenuous mask that veils viciousness and backward delusion.
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She challenges us to tear away the veils of illusion and see a different world.
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"Trump made us miserable," said Fatemeh, 22, who works at a store that sells veils.
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Part of Iran's method of achieving this was through the banning of veils in public.
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On my first trip, in 1999, I had seen many women wearing full face veils.
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Those who want to ban veils are not worried about security but about immigration and integration.
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Muslim women, too, devoted inordinate time to debating and assessing their own and one another's veils.
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He enjoys a substantial following among young Muslims and has challenged French restrictions on wearing veils.
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They are required to wear double-layered veils, niqabs, full-body chadors, as well as gloves.
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And he defends Austria's ban on face-covering veils, a solution in search of a problem.
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She's also keen on banning Muslim veils in public and chopping all immigration from Islamic nations.
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That was something he did throughout his career — covering the eyes with masks, veils or sunglasses.
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Some of the women wear sneakers with their veils, carry cellphones, ride motorbikes and play sports.
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Visually and musically, "Naples in Veils" does little to conjure a sensation of passion or delirium.
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During Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils, the entire cast leaves the stage except for her.
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Drag queens wearing big black hats with veils and high heels will carry his coffin out.
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Officials there have stepped up regulations banning overt signs of religious observance, like veils or beards.
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Others were more elegant and subtle, draped with silky pink roses or veils of ethereal chiffon.
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They did not stand out in quiet neighborhoods where the full beards and veils are unusual.
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Your students might connect Marjane's experience with a veil, and the role veils play in Iran today, via this January 22018 article, "Tired of Their Veils, Some Iranian Women Stage Rare Protests," or this video, "Big City Life," about an Iranian woman who chose modernity over tradition.
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In 2014, a city in Xinjiang banned people with beards and those wearing veils from boarding buses.
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Some had veils, though these tended to slip from their heads as they strutted to techno beats.
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Acura pulled the veils of its updated MDX SUV Wednesday morning at the New York Auto Show.
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Officials in Xinjiang have stepped up regulations banning overt signs of religious observance, like veils or beards.
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The justice ministry said the ban would focus on women forced by their families to wear veils.
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According to an eyewitness, the assailants had entered the prayer hall and were wearing full-face veils.
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Dark shapes like veils surround many, but these shrouds are the sole reminders of classic Christian iconography.
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Norway's government in June proposed a ban on face-covering Muslim veils in kindergartens, schools and universities.
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Five things you didn't know about religious veils CNN has reached out to Omar's office for comment.
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France, a case challenging France's 2010 law banning face-covering veils, including the niqab and the burqa.
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There are maybe 1.5 million Muslim women in Britain, of whom very, very few actually wear veils.
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France, with its determinedly secular government, already bans face-covering veils in public and headscarves in schools.
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Officials in Xinjiang have stepped up regulations banning overt signs of religious observance, like veils and beards.
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This character we are watching is getting sucked into this vortex of veils, as this blue flashes.
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The State Department also criticized Chinese restrictions on religious expression in Xinjiang, like banning veils for women.
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She said that full-face veils worn by Muslims should be banned "wherever legally possible" in Germany.
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"I would see women with face veils crossing the street with no regard for traffic," he said.
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He has been lectured on the field and, with just the thinnest of veils, criticized off it.
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Four decades later, some women have again taken to the streets, removing their veils in protest. Feb.
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He had proposed and later withdrawn legislation that critics said would have banned Muslims from wearing veils.
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Instead, it was the wide variety of halos, crowns, hats and veils that won the red carpet.
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Earlier this month, for example, security officials imposed bans on long beards and veils in public places.
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Wedding dresses today no longer have dropped waists, and typically veils only go on the bride's head.
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The beef balls, under ragged veils of tofu skin, are the lightest and airiest I've ever eaten.
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Many designers traded cascading capes and cathedral-length veils for dramatic overcoats in varying lengths and styles.
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Facing rising fears of Islamic militancy, Europe has increasingly regulated face veils over the past few years.
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But on Monday, the Norwegian government proposed a ban on full-face veils in schools and universities.
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The devices can be hidden away under their long veils or in baskets on top of their heads.
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At a certain level of virality, you cannot stop motivated people on the internet from piercing your veils.
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"They remain indoors and behind veils," says Awasthi, who was drawn to their plight during a photography project.
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Traditionally reserved for wedding veils and ballet tutus, tulle is the dream foundation for ruffles, frills, and flounces.
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Out of about five million Muslims in France at the time, an estimated 2,000 women wore full veils.
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Her childhood was nothing short of a media circus ... hidden behind veils, paparazzi and bodyguards at every turn.
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Many were still wearing the black abayas and face veils, which were mandatory in areas the militants controlled.
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Some had their hair, nails or makeup done; others tried on tiaras and veils, or had photos taken.
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In others, Muslim women in veils silently read the Qur'an – their absorption a vision of power in itself.
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This week, Johnson wrote a newspaper column to liken Muslim women wearing veils to postboxes and bank robbers.
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Both men are running on strong law-and-order platforms and had called for a ban on veils.
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From the outside, they're indistinguishable from meatballs, but the tomato sauce veils a crispy breading and soft center.
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Veils are articles that reveal and conceal things simultaneously, so I wanted it to be about psychological disassociation.
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INTERNATIONAL An article on Sunday about Haitian migrants in Canada described incorrectly regulations on face veils in Quebec.
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Some qualified charities will also take bridesmaids' and flower girls' dresses, and bridal accessories like veils and tiaras.
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Muslim head scarves, veils and burqas have also been a flash point in France for over a decade.
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"The Lovers" shows the heads of two black men kissing through the veils of reversed black do-rags.
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It's a dreary morning, mist hanging in veils over the fields, a purplish tinge to the distant trees.
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The women, wearing face-covering veils and clutching toddlers, huddle in a different spot, also separated by nationality.
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But which circumstances lead them to shrink down to points that recede behind veils of darkness, and then collide?
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Dishonest boys have a harder time than girls, who often aren't checked and sometimes hide earphones under their veils.
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Measures against the wearing of Islamic veils have already been taken in Belgium, France, Denmark and Spain, among others.
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UKIP's election manifesto earlier this year proposed a partial ban on face veils, something no other major party endorses.
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All three women wore iconic gowns on their wedding days, which all featured billowing trains and cathedral-length veils.
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It is also the wisdom that allows us to see the world as it is, without veils or distortions.
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Just like on the show, bridal consultants help with everything from the dress itself to bridal accessories and veils.
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The artist employed faster, looser brush strokes, creating veils of blues, pinks and grays to achieve a delicate transparency.
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Its groom was goggle-eyed, the bride buried in her veils, and behind them the family gaped like idiots.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that full-face veils have no place in the European country, CNN reports.
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There are ellipses, snaking vertical lines, swaths of scumbling, veils, and smudges, solidly painted shapes, and thin, watery drips.
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An extraordinary request in Washington, a ban on veils in Denmark and the decade that almost stopped climate change.
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The models for Erdem looked like exuberant mourners, in their black veils and high-necked dresses of all colors.
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And it was championed by a man who once said women in full-face veils looked like letter boxes.
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OSLO, Norway — Norway aims to ban face-covering veils in kindergartens, schools and universities, the government said on Monday.
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One photo series is his famous "Kesh Angels," in which women in gowns and face veils pose on motorbikes.
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After stripping off the veils of a legend, "Jackie" succumbs, at the last, and devotedly puts them back on.
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Ahead, check out our faves, and be sure to start searching for bridal veils to top off the look.
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For a hijabi—a Muslim woman who veils—the world can be a significantly dangerous place, to begin with.
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Women are required to cover their hair in Iran; meanwhile in secular France, hijabs and full body veils are banned.
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Those repressive policies include a ban on certain Muslim names for babies and another ban on long beards and veils.
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These spiders are only one of two in the world who can spin these so-called "bridal veils" in midair.
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The government has also banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law invoked in response to the blasts.
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France became the first country in Europe to impose a ban on full-face veils in public areas in 2011.
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Together they passed a range of law-and-order measures this year, including a ban on Muslim face-covering veils.
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It had women from all walks of life, some in Western clothes, others in full veils, head scarves and burqas.
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"Veils aren't going anywhere, but tiaras have given way to the latest in hair jewelry — barrettes and combs," Brown said.
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The lower house of Parliament approved draft legislation that would prevent civil servants from wearing full face veils at work.
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Julia Klöckner, one of Ms. Merkel's deputies as party chairwoman, called last summer for an outright ban on the veils.
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In 2013, the ruling Parti Quebecois tried to put a ban religious garments, including Muslim veils, worn by government officials.
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Warhol veils the "it" girl in a shroud of psychedelic mystery while a Velvet Underground soundtrack plays in the background.
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Just days after they ditched headscarves in Saudi Arabia, the women wore long-sleeved black dresses and veils for the Pope.
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The government has banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law that was put in place after the attacks.
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The government has taken such dramatic measures as banning of certain Muslim names for babies or barring long beards and veils.
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You can play around with the masks and veils you wear and figure out pieces and parts of you through that.
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France and Belgium have completely banned wearing face veils in public and some other European countries have local or regional restrictions.
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Restrictions in some areas on displays of Muslim faith, such as observing Ramadan or wearing face veils, made many even angrier.
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Fortunately, a growing number of states are taking steps to counter the BDS movement and the anti-Semitism it thinly veils.
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The number of Dutch women who wear face veils affected by the ban is quite small – the BBC estimates 100-400.
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He urged them to come out from under their veils, attend university and show up as citizens in the public sphere.
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Britain's Channel 4 News broadcast images of jubilant residents burning their veils and cutting off their beards as the militants fled.
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The lower house of parliament in September narrowly backed a ban on face veils, a step widely supported in opinion polls.
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The move comes after Chancellor Angela Merkel called in December for a ban on full-face Muslim veils "wherever legally possible".
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In the trial's wake, he left Neverland for Bahrain, where he was spotted in shopping malls wearing black robes and veils.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the president at the time, claimed the veils oppressed women and said they were "not welcome" in the country.
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"Hammers and Veils" (season 2, episode 2) Also known as the episode where Dean finally develops a personality, and it sucks.
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She said that backers of the ban had defended it by saying full-face veils hinder communications and impede government service.
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Zurich, Solothurn, Schwyz, Basel City and Glarus have rejected a ban on veils, while Italian-speaking Ticino has imposed a ban.
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Critics of the veils argue that the ban makes public spaces safer and encourages foreigners to assimilate into the country's culture.
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In April, Germany's lower house of parliament approved a draft law preventing civil servants from wearing face veils while at work.
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Superflex at their best shed light on the mundane aspects of contemporary life, lifting veils to help us see the obvious.
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A chair titled "Bitches Bonnet Seat" (2016) veils a foam-based core in nylon that Reaves has embroidered with ornate floral patterns.
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In the 1920s, under a policy known as hujum, women were encouraged to burn their veils to show they had been liberated.
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Dressed in vibrant red robes and veils and with their faces painted white, the performers descended the staircase, dancing to classical music.
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The painting contains different ways of presenting the landscape, from digital image to dispersed clouds of paint to optical veils to impasto.
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The government has also banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law that was put in place after the attacks.
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And, with some heavy gloves and those veils that look like fencing masks, we filmed lots of bees up close and personal.
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The arrests came as women across Iran have been posting pictures of themselves bare-headed and waving their veils aloft on sticks.
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In white veils, our walkers silently held posters with the photos and names of the Aurora victims, alongside two dozen of us.
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Though a Republican cloth drapes all of American government, it almost surely veils a roiling battle for the heart of the party.
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"[Veils] are one of the most homogenous ways that Muslim women are categorized and it is so perpetuated by imagery," she said.
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Lawmakers in Belgium voted to introduce a ban on full face veils, including the burqa and niqab, in public places in March.
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The package included a series of law-and-order measures such as a ban on Muslim face-covering veils in public places.
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Many of the models, with hair styled in rigorous asymmetrical bobs, wore long mesh veils, some dotted with small colored pom-poms.
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On Friday, dressed head-to-toe in black and wearing full face veils, they gathered behind a fence with a locked gate.
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Others that are politically explosive include restricting dual citizenship and banning the public wearing of burqas (veils covering both body and face).
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Veils for Muslim women come in all sizes, shapes and colors — and with terminology that can mean different things in different places.
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Full-face veils will be allowed for individuals visiting relatives in hospitals, and exemptions will be made during festive or religious holidays.
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China has prohibited the distinct markers of Islam, such as growing long beards and wearing veils in public, since at least 2017.
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Muslim women in Quebec who wear face veils, however, fear that the new law will make them even more of a target.
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Quebec's justice minister, Stéphanie Vallée, recently confirmed that the ban would include not only Muslim veils but accessories like sunglasses as well.
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The law has upset some Muslims, including women who wear face-covering veils known as niqabs, and say that it stigmatizes them.
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And after that I watched the spread of the conservative Salafist movement and the first veils worn by women in the 1990s.
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On a recent evening, women in face veils clip-clopped past on horses, raising posies of balloons as they posed for photographs.
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Anomalie, another online wedding dress site that uses visualization software, is giving away free custom veils with the purchase of a dress.
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The women are in long black abayas and veils; many of the men wear traditional Malian garb or North African-style djellabas.
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A good way to understand Code Vein's aesthetic priorities are the game's Blood Veils (like the one seen in the trailer above).
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"Using full-face veils is a choice and we cannot interfere in their choice and their freedom," she said, according to Reuters.
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Taking a page from the playbook of neighboring France and calling for a ban on full-face veils, or burqas, in Germany.
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"However, I don't see myself as blinding the subjects in my drawings so much as creating these barriers, veils and obstructions," she notes.
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Our parents and godparents were somewhere behind us as we put the wafers in our mouths, shoes pinching and veils pinned in tightly.
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I looked back and the leather-lung bleacher bums now were wearing their orange rally towels on their heads like veils of mourning.
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Rothko spurned overt subject matter and painted diaphanous veils of muted color, while Bloom embraced subject matter and applied paint every which way.
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The veils are getting thinner, the victims are getting bolder and the power structure that protects predators is weakening with each new case.
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The Muslim who overcomes sheds any Muslim practices that challenge polite liberal sensibilities, like face veils and polygamy, or calling out white supremacy.
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Denmark on Thursday became the latest European nation to ban garments that cover the face, such as Islamic veils including burqas or niqabs.
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Hundreds of women wearing burqas and other face veils marched in protest in Denmark this week over the ban, calling it religious discrimination.
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The party, which has long called for a ban on face veils, also called for changing the way refugees are taken care of.
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Women in black veils walked beside their husbands, families exhausted by the reign of terror, fierce fighting and a lack of basic services.
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That was followed by another law, adopted in 2010, which banned full-face veils, most notably burqas, in the name of public security.
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It comes after Chinese officials banned Uyghurs from growing long beards, wearing veils in public places and home schooling their children in 2017.
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"It was a statement about the polemic about the veils in Switzerland: Should we ban them from public institutions or not?" he said.
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Lindsay Short, a senior accessories buyer for David's Bridal in Conshohocken, Pa., said she is seeing an uptick in brides who wear veils.
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"Using full-face veils is a choice and we cannot interfere in their choice and their freedom," said the activist, Lathiefah Widuri Retyaningtyas.
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But Nisrine was troubled by Idlib City's ubiquitous jihadist billboards, face veils and cafes segregating women and banning them from smoking water pipes.
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Ms. Bloch-Neal is the designer and maker of all the pieces in her collection, which includes customized shoes, veils, headpieces and jewelry.
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Denmark has joined some other European countries in banning garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa.
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We sat outside and ate a slice of setteveli, a seven-layer chocolate hazelnut cake (veli means veils), reportedly invented at the pasticceria.
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As of October 2019, the brand&aposs Alchemist Palette, Brow Struck Dimension Powder, Everlasting Glimmer Veils, and Saint & Sinner Perfumes have been discontinued.
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Xinjiang lawmakers this week approved legislation extending a prohibition on "abnormal" beards and the wearing of veils in public places across the whole region.
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The report documented particularly onerous restrictions on Muslims -- who have been prevented or discouraged from fasting for Ramadan or wearing veils -- and Tibetan Buddhists.
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France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and the German state of Bavaria have imposed restrictions on the wearing of full-face veils in public places.
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The Lower House approved the bill in 2016, after attempts to impose a more general ban on burqas and other face-covering veils failed.
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Four women, their made-up faces free of veils, giggle as their car takes on what have become heavily jammed streets of workaday Kabul.
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Women, temporarily freed from their fear of harassment by the regime, let their mandatory veils slip so far back they look like neck-scarves.
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Their demonstrations feature "Human Beings"—protesters dressed in white, their faces shrouded in veils, holding up signs with biographical details of gun violence victims.
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Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and the German state of Bavaria have all implemented varying degrees of a ban on face veils in public.
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Hijab: The term has become a catchall, particularly in the West, for all Islamic veils, but is mainly used to mean a head scarf.
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The bill has its share of critics, including many Muslim groups that say it targets and stigmatizes Muslim women who wear face-concealing veils.
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The wide-ranging music selection on Timbuktu radio was replaced by uninterrupted Koranic verse, women were forced behind veils, men made to grow beards.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian authorities on Thursday banned women from wearing full-face veils, or niqabs, at work, citing reasons of identification for the decision.
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"I've seen a lot of long veils on modern-looking brides wearing short dresses, and getting married in a community garden," Ms. Swerdloff said.
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That country in particular has been a repeat offender, banning headscarves and other "conspicuous" religious symbols in schools and face veils in public places.
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When you talk about veils, you're talking about power, because the institutions that govern us are ultimately invisible, or at least invisible to us.
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Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In Supreme Court nominations, as in other things, Donald Trump is the master of lifting veils and making subtext text.
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Moments later, he slips past the pews where women are sitting with their hair covered in veils of white lace, then detonates a bomb.
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In Mr. Castellucci's boldest touch, Salome does not perform her famous Dance of the Seven Veils for her leering stepfather, King Herod (John Daszak).
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Indeed, bows, trains, veils and capes — the accessories most associated with the ghosts of femininity long ago — were a peculiar leitmotif of the season.
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Among myriad measures of this, demand for sharia finance is growing and more women are covering their heads or donning full veils in public.
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At least two demonstrators who wore veils in Ticino in defiance of the ban were fined 250 Swiss francs ($260), according to media reports.
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Then the couples proceeded through the crowd, the grooms in black suits and ties, and the brides in white dresses with attached hair veils.
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The government has also banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law that was put in place after the Easter Sunday attacks.
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Manhattan #MarchForOurLives participants walk in silence wearing white veils to represent the victims of gun violence at both Sandy Hook and Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
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One step forward, two steps back: In a backward effort to integrate Muslim immigrants, the Austrian parliament has banned face-covering veils from public spaces.
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Denmark joined some other European countries in deciding Thursday to ban garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa.
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As performed by the prima ballerina Anna Tsygankova, Margaretha begins a kind of striptease, removing a series of flesh-colored veils until, seemingly, nothing remains.
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The idea of men sitting around on all these networks pontificating on a woman&aposs dress, why aren&apost women talking about veils and dresses?
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Start gluing veils to your baseball hats and sun visors now For who are we to question the coolness Queen RiRi bestows upon us. 5.
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Many manifestations of Muslim belief, from female veils to long beards to the leading of an abstemious life, are taken as evidence of "extremist" views.
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First lady Melania Trump and first daughter Ivanka Trump, both clad in black lace dresses and veils, were among Trump's envoy to the Apostolic Palace.
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The country has waged an obsessive legal war against headscarves since 2004, when the full-face veils like the burqa and the niqab were banned.
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In Germany last month, members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative governing coalition called for restrictions on face veils in schools and universities and while driving.
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Facing a hot-headed far-right opponent in 2017, for example, Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz drafted an integration packet that included banning full face veils.
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Cardi B wore a body-covering floral outfit to Paris Fashion Week, causing people to highlight the hypocrisy in France's ban on full-face veils.
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According to the BBC, France is thought to have just 2,000 women who wear full veils, despite having the largest Muslim minority in Western Europe.
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The party has proposed, for example, a ban on full veils in public — something that prominent conservative figures in Ms. Merkel's party have supported, too.
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This summer, the Parliament prohibited the wearing of face veils in public, although researchers say only about 200 Muslim women follow the practice in Denmark.
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Darcy Miller, an editor-at-large for the magazine Martha Stewart Weddings, said she was noticing more classic, simpler bridal dresses paired with dramatic veils.
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In 2010, the French Parliament voted to ban the wearing of face-concealing veils in public places, making France the first country to do so.
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But as Islamic State was pushed from territory in recent months, there were pictures of women pulling off face veils and smoking previously banned cigarettes.
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The split format and diptych paintings, lodged with traces of underpainting and obscuring veils, consist of floating planes in high-key twilight and sunset hues.
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Elsewhere in Europe, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and the German state of Bavaria have all imposed some restrictions on full-face veils in public places.
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"It is not our role to pass judgment on the wearing of headscarves or veils in Iran," Flore Ariighi, head of the UNAC told the Telegraph.
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In the streets, women set fire to the long black veils the jihadists had forced them to wear since they seized the city in January 203.
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The country was the first in Europe to ban burqas, which cover the length of the body, and niqabs, full veils for the face, in 2010.
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"The hisbah came checking that everyone had the right dress," he said, referring to the religious police that monitored everything from men's beards to women's veils.
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Germany's parliament last year backed a ban on full-face veils for civil servants, judges and soldiers, while Austria and Bulgaria have also banned facial coverings.
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Hidden mother photography is a contemporary term for when Victorian mothers hid behind veils and held their child while the photographer took the long exposure image.
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France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and the German state of Bavaria have all imposed some restrictions on the wearing of full-face veils in public places.
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"There would be a war bigger than Boko Haram," says an imam in Lagos, as his wife and daughters sit silently in the corner, under veils.
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Last week, the German parliament voted to draft a law that bans women working in civil service, judiciary, and military jobs from wearing full-face veils.
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They come to beg for alms, wearing grotesque outfits: oversize veils for the women, even little girls; cotton djellabas for the men; prayer beads ostentatiously displayed.
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Snow was blowing across the narrow street in wafting veils, and the quiet was like a sudden deafness; breaking into the crusted surface, her boots creaked.
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Spiders can also make "silkhenge," vertical structures constructed from silk, "bridal veils" to protect smaller male spiders from their more aggressive female counterparts, and even slingshots.
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Or that the distinguishing characteristic between the two was mainly black trapezoidal glasses for the boys and little haute flea-market fascinator veils for the girls.
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Now, veils of silence in legislative chambers are lifting as public disavowals and calls for resignations pour in against the accused, even from fellow party members.
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There were head braces with mantilla-like veils suspended over the face, and stuffed constructions that looked like misshapen airplane pillows around the neck and waist.
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This year Germany's parliament backed a ban on full-face veils for civil servants, judges and soldiers, while Austria and the Netherlands have debated the issue.
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When Ofsted say any school who allows face veils will be downgraded, well how many under-16 girls do we know that have worn a veil?
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With national elections looming in 2017, conservatives allied with Merkel have lobbied for an official cap on immigration into Germany and have demanded bans on veils.
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France, which has the largest Muslim minority in Europe, estimated at 5 million, in 2010 introduced a ban on full-face niqab and burqa veils in public.
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Concurrently, Merkel spoke out against the ultra-modest veils, telling local newspapers that "a fully veiled woman scarcely has a chance at full integration" in German culture.
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When women remove their veils as Fares and Qasim did, she argues, they are seen as modern — code for sexually free, not necessarily as possessing sexual agency.
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So her campaign will emphasise domestic issues: security, a harder line on cultural symbols (perhaps opposing the wearing of full-face veils) and tougher rules for migrants.
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Zaitouneh and her colleague Samira al-Khalil went in public without a headscarf in the conservative town, where almost all women wear the headscarf or face veils.
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They usually gasp at the results — pages and pages of one-dimensional stock photos showing women behind black veils, failing to capture the diversity of Muslim experiences.
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In a hardening of her stance on migrants' integration in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel last month called for a ban on full face veils "wherever legally possible".
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It would ban full face veils in schools and colleges, and while driving, appearing before courts or at public registry offices, or when going through passport control.
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Women who want to wear face veils in public should not teach or become civil servants, Mr. de Maizière said in announcing the plan on morning television.
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The far-right party has called for a ban on veils and even on minarets on mosques, and it views Islam as incompatible with the German Constitution.
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While like many of the female Arab tourists, 21-year-old pharmacist Marwa wore a headscarf, others were in full-face veils, something many Austrians find unacceptable.
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"We are in favor of a ban on minarets, on muezzins and a ban on full veils," added Storch, who is a member of the European Parliament.
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While the government barred people wearing face coverings from using public services or working in government jobs, it did not ban full-face veils in public spaces.
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In the public realm in Iran, conservative Islamic rules apply and are enforced, so women have to wear veils and are normally barred from singing or dancing.
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True, it might come as a surprise that while the Quran advocates modesty for both women and men, it never even mentions veils, let alone mandates them.
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The ban on wearing full-face Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa in public was part of a package of planned reforms announced late Monday.
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They delivered, with claw-like nail shapes, neon coats of polish, and veils of crystals (that pay homage to Hancock's famous habits, if you know what we mean).
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Then-French Prime Minister François Fillon decreed in 2011 that women were banned from wearing face veils outside of the home except in mosques or as car passengers.
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They also called on transport workers to report women wearing face veils or full-body coverings to the police, and prohibited "naming of children to exaggerate religious fervour".
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Intricate black lace veils and papal hats covered models' heads, while sumptuous brocade dresses and regal purple velvet sweatshirts read 'Fashion Sinner,' 'Fashion is Beautiful,' and 'Royal Love.
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The Echo Society performing "Veils" The Echo Society's success places them in the midst of the city's expanding experimental arts scene, which continues finding space for classical music.
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These are always highly contentious: arguments about whether teachers can wear face-veils, or what schools should teach about the meaning and origin of life, and so on.
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Fully covered and wearing face veils, they shop, take a taxi and walk around neighborhoods, showing a deserted city with little traffic and some armed men walking about.
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Measures against the wearing of Islamic veils have already been taken in Belgium, France, Denmark and Spain, among others, with the Netherlands passing its own ban this week.
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The Dutch upper House of parliament on Tuesday passed a law banning the wearing of face-covering veils in public buildings, such as schools, government offices and hospitals.
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France was the first country in Europe to forbid full face-covering Islamic veils, known as burkas, as well as the niqab, which covers part of the face.
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The Dutch parliament on Tuesday passed a law banning full-face veils in public spaces such as government buildings, a move aimed at restricting the traditionally-Muslim garment.
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Debate is raging anew over whether certain Islamic modes of dress — full-body swimsuits, known as burkinis, in France and face veils in Germany — inherently contravene countries' values.
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Restricting face coverings has been a hot topic for years in Europe, where some warily see Islamic face veils as a sign of Islam's rise on the continent.
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Austrian conservative politicians have called for a ban on full body veils, saying they prevent women who wear them from integrating given it is a mainly Catholic country.
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Popovich almost always veils his full strategy against teams he expects to see in the playoffs, and resting Duncan is a strong sign that he's doing so again.
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It's hard not to admire the sheer, inventive scope of the imagery, as well as the clothes: all those veils, capes, headpieces, and ornate off-the-shoulder gowns.
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The burqa is the most concealing of all Islamic veils, covering the entire face and body and leaving only a mesh screen for the wearer to see through.
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According to a Nordstrom press release, "chain-mail veils and lighting effects will allow the store to reflect the seasons and create changing moods to celebrate special events."
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Some of the targeted "de-extremification" restrictions gained coverage in the West, including a ban on certain Muslim names for babies and another on long beards and veils.
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Though women wore veils outside, their outfits in private were often vibrant, colorful, and carefully crafted; the painting "The Young Woman with a Chador" illustrates this contrast exquisitely.
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The sisters, white veils covering their heads and tunics draping their bodies, sat in silence, their day adhering to a routine that has defined their lives for decades.
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In Rome, Paul will be tasked with making a bloated Italian operation lean and profitable, which for now sounds better than contraband moonshine and veils in Saudi Arabia.
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If Abloh's track record is any indication, we could be looking at legions of brides-to-be opting for veils inscribed with more than just a little lace.
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At least two demonstrators who wore veils in defiance after the ban came into effect last July paid fines of 250 Swiss francs ($260), Swiss media have reported.
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Some of its offerings include wedding gowns by designers Vera Wang and Oleg Cassini for less than $2,000, flower girl dresses and bridal accessories including tiaras and veils.
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He wears masks adorned with concealing fringe veils, presenting an enigmatic image that hints at what a Lone Ranger movie reboot might look like with David Lynch directing.
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Popov said fine would be imposed on anyone who defies the ban, which police said was needed because the veils - which cover all but the eyes - hampered quick identification.
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The three others, wearing black dancewear, start with transparent yellow veils that cover their faces; in due course they raise and fold these so that they become like toques.
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" Stolz's artwork, Shrouded, is a series of hanging veils that cover the space, distorting the light and, as she writes, "transforming the caverns into flat pictures of what was.
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Cops say the robed thieves—dressed to the nines in black habits, veils, and white wimples—rushed a Citizen's United bank in Pocono a little after noon on Monday.
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Laws restricting what type of headscarfs Islamic women can wear in public have swept Europe, beginning in 2011, when France became the first nation to ban full-face veils.
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In cafés in north Tehran, where peroxide hairdos poke from veils, rumours circulate about a European arm of an American turbine-maker that has agreed a big joint venture.
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At the start, a gravedigger (the chilling bass Nathan Stark) ruminates about the "angel throng, covered in veils" and "drowned in tears" that will surely attend the next funeral.
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In fact, he thought it did not go far enough: The Dutch parliament voted overwhelmingly Thursday in favor of a ban on women wearing face veils in public places.
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After the city's liberation, videos and photos showed scenes of residents celebrating the end of ISIS's rule by men shaving their beards and women removing veils from their faces.
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In season 2's "Seeds," Nick (Max Minghella) and Eden (Sydney Sweeney) got married in a creepy mass ceremony in which virginal young brides covered their heads with veils.
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She's taken over the years to performing behind veils or facial prosthetics, adopting alien and avant drag iconography that can obscure the white-hot emotional core of the music.
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Mr. Spencer, who had proposed a bill that would have banned Muslims from wearing veils in public, was fooled into taking part in what he believed was antiterrorism training.
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While the government in 2017 barred people wearing face coverings from using public services or working in government jobs, it did not ban full-face veils in public spaces.
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While the wives of ISIS members were ordered to wear full-covering face veils and gloves, Ms. Murad was forced to wear makeup and suggestive dresses with spaghetti straps.
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VIENNA — The most infamous part of Richard Strauss's 1905 opera "Salome" is the Dance of the Seven Veils, a striptease performed by a character meant to be just 16.
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Last summer, when debates broke out across Europe over the so-called burkini swimsuit, Ms. Merkel and other German leaders said they favored a partial ban on full veils.
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Models, some wearing berets with veils, hit the runway in an array of understated evening dresses in sandy pinks and oranges, while some donned skin-colored, see-through gowns.
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Muslim women in the Netherlands will be banned from wearing face-covering veils in common public spaces, like schools, hospitals, or on public transportation, the Dutch government has decided.
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Naomi Campbell wore a sculptural fascinator, black leather gloves, and a feathered Ralph & Russo dress, while Kate Moss and her daughter Lila (newly a model herself) wore matching veils.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Copenhagen policewoman is being investigated for embracing a niqab-wearing protestor during a demonstration against a ban on face veils, the force's complaints body said on Wednesday.
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The cafe has become a place where survivors can be comfortable, a place where they can remove the veils they may have once felt the need to cover themselves with.
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Muslims make up about 12 percent of Bulgaria's 7.2 million population and most belong to a centuries-old community, largely ethnic Turks, among whom full-face veils are not common.
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The nationalists argued that such veils presented a national security risk and the issue had grown in importance in the wake of the violent Islamist attacks in Paris and Brussels.
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So common are IS's pre-dawn house raids that women wear veils in bed, says an exiled Mosul MP. Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
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We protect ourselves by obscuring our experience, but we imagine that if we could get through our own veils, we would find an underlying honesty that is simple, stark, handmade.
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The influx has fuelled the rise of anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which maintains that Islam violates the constitution and wants a ban on minarets and face veils.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Upper House of parliament on Tuesday passed a law banning the wearing of face-covering veils in public buildings, such as schools, government offices and hospitals.
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As 15 trucks arrived on Wednesday, hundreds of women in full face veils clambered out along with children and stood in line to be searched and given bread and water.
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Bronstein says that when she raised her camera, the women cowered and turned away as though their identities might be revealed, even though they remained faceless under their blue veils.
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The government has also expanded the list of "safe" countries to which rejected migrants can be legally returned and outlawed the wearing in public of face veils by Muslim women.
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The wind picks up the dust and rustles the transparent white veils of the dancers—a site-specific spontaneity of the kind that Russo hoped for when choosing the location.
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In January, former British Prime Minister David Cameron backed banning face veils in schools, courts, and other public institutions, so long as there were "proper and sensible" rules around it.
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Giorgio Armani explained that the veils were used to convey mystery and that his idea of a typical evening was "not too important but still precious.. like an elegant cocktail".
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M.L.M. Carey, a correspondent in "Women Travelers on the Nile," recommended packing "a few common dresses for the river," along with veils, gloves and umbrellas to guard against the sun.
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Full-face veils are rare in Denmark, according to the news service, but similar laws exist in other European countries, such as France, Belgium and the German state of Bavaria.
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This isn't quite Yeats' "bee-loud glade" and we're a long way from the lake isle of Innisfree, but peace is dropping slow from the veils of the morning nonetheless.
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Once off the force, he questioned other practices: forcing shops to close during prayer times and urging people to go to the mosque, requiring face veils, barring women from driving.
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The whole concept of Interstice is about veils, and I wanted to make a piece about people traversing through a metaphorical veil, but also literally represent it with this fabric.
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Between the lines: Denmark joined France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Austria and the Netherlands as European countries that have instituted some form of a nationwide ban on face veils, per the WashPost.
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Very few Muslim women in Europe or North America wear full-face veils, but laws that forbid the coverings have come into force in at least five West European countries.
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Veils became a mark of distinction for married Greek and Roman women (virgins were unveiled) and for centuries after, women, and indeed men, have used them as a secular accessory.
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Danish politicians passed a law Thursday banning clothing that covers the face, making wearing full-face Islamic veils like the burqa and niqab in public punishable with a $753 fine.
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Thanks to Brandon Maxwell, Gigi Burris, and Eva Fehren, though, three brides will now be able to cross their wedding gowns, rings, and veils off their list of financial burdens.
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COPENHAGEN — Denmark's ban on face veils in public took effect on Wednesday, setting off protests and reigniting a debate over a law that rights groups say discriminates against Muslim women.
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BERLIN — Germany's lower house of Parliament on Thursday agreed on draft legislation that aims to prevent civil servants, judges and soldiers in Germany from wearing full-face veils at work.
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Chiuri modernized Dior's iconic bar jacket (and introduced fantastical dresses fit for a princess) while Piccioli showed veils and pleated dresses in a collection that was quiet — but totally modern.
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This paranoia regarding Islamist extremism has often spilled over onto ordinary Muslims, who have seen restrictions placed on marking Ramadan, growing long beards, wearing veils and home-schooling their children.
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It also has not yet published an official statement on the specifics of the ban, and it is unclear what kind of religious full-body veils have been specifically targeted.
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By the end, the hoods had morphed into full, snout-like veils that covered the wearers' faces; beneath them, the models lit their way by punching at their iPhone screens.
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Shumen has a centuries-old Muslim community and Muslims make up about 12 percent of Bulgaria's population of 7.2 million, but in September the government banned wearing face veils in public.
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In an effort to combat "religious extremists," China has announced a series of bans on a range of physical attributes, including "abnormal beards" and the wearing of veils in public places.
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A 'lines and veils' practice is often put into place, where players can outline their boundaries and subjects that they would prefer not to get involved with before they start play.
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Adopting the dress herself, she then faced difficulties continuing her studies at the French institute in Tunis and, for several months, in Toulouse in France, where full face veils are banned.
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And today's merch release was no exception, complete with sweatband veils, lace-up bodysuits, and plenty of extra long-sleeve crop tops for you to impulse spend your entire paycheck on.
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Earlier this month, the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition, which backs the government, proposed a nation-wide ban on full-face veils, arguing that such clothing was not typical for Bulgarian Muslims.
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However, their outfits had some people questioning on social media: Why did the Trump women wear veils during their Vatican visit, but skipped wearing headscarves during their stop in Saudi Arabia?
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In May, Denmark became the latest in a series of European nations to ban face veils in public, saying that it is a necessary measure to uphold the country's secular values.
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The government has argued that its measures, such as prohibiting women from wearing Islamic veils or men from growing beards, are part of an effort to roll back dangerous religious fundamentalism.
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Sometimes she drew from the oscillations of belly dancing (without any virtuoso pelvic speed); sometimes she used veils (black, green), wrapping them around her head, across her face, over her hips.
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Why it matters: The elite class' internet usage is behind two veils — it is hard to get any detail from North Korea in the first place, let alone about illicit activity.
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Last year, a women's group named the Niqab Squad was formed at a Jakarta mosque to fight what it calls prejudice against face veils, and it now has chapters across Java.
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During the same period, the toxic dyes used to color black mourning gowns and veils presented unlucky widows with a variety of health risks, among them respiratory issues, blindness, and death.
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In recent years, the country's Muslim majority has embraced more overt signs of religiosity and shifted toward Arab-style devotion: flowing clothes and veils, Arabic names and Middle Eastern devotional architecture.
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Quebec's Liberal government recently barred people who are wearing face coverings from receiving public services or working in government jobs in the province, arguing that veils encouraged the segregation of women.
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Germany's Parliament this year approved a draft law banning women working in the judiciary, the civil service or the military from wearing face-covering veils, and will come into effect soon.
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Even her rendition of the famed "Dance of the Seven Veils" reflects this: it starts with precise footwork, then devolves into sensual, primitive body-shaking gestures as it nears its end.
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In this case, a length of course mesh partially veils the stretcher bars of the right panel of this towering work, which rests on the floor and leans against the wall.
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I believe the two women sobbing in an incredibly affecting way were from Venezuela, but their faces happened to be covered with veils, so that interaction remains detached from its context.
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He also said that a ban on niqab and burqa veils in public that was introduced in France in 2010 had not led to a reduction in women wearing them there nevertheless.
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COLOMBO/KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Sunday attacks by Islamist militants.
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Part of the Roma minority practices an ultra-conservative form of Islam and its women have started wearing full-face veils in recent years, angering nationalists and bewildering other residents of Pazardzhik.
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These prohibitions are the consequence of a law enacted in October whose real purpose is to ban Muslim women from wearing niqabs, or face veils, when they provide or receive public services.
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For one fun activity, the women all dressed in white — many looking like brides themselves with veils — and posed for a big group photo, where Kristen Doute threw up a peace sign.
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In 2010, the country banned full face veils, like burqas and niqābs, in public and in 2004, the country enacted a law banning the open wearing of religious symbols in public schools.
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Showcased in his promotional photoshoots and music videos, as well as in concert, they're attractive pieces, with black leather uppers adorned with fringe veils to conceal the bottom half of his face.
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Organized by Arshia Fatima Haq, this performance will feature members of the SWANA (South West Asian and North African) diaspora, decked out in sparkling, sequined outfits, with veils designed by Hushidar Mortezaie.
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Also in November, a legislator in the U.S. State of Georgia withdrew a bill that would've banned women from wearing face veils while driving, citing "the visceral reaction" the proposal had received.
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This proposal is much more restrictive than bans on veils that cover the face, such as the niqab and the burqa, already in place in Austria, as well as Belgium and France.
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After dazzling in 3-D ballgowns and extravagant veils at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the looks got even more fearless (and more risqué) for the after party.
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At one point on the large screens, in a prerecorded video, four lithe women in metallic veils ran their hands over Mr. Bieber's body while he looked straight at the camera, unmoved.
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Last year authorities also enacted a sweeping anti-extremism law, with long beards, veils in public and home-schooling all on the ban list, prompting new denunciations from international human rights groups.
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Some French people say practices found among immigrant communities, such as Muslim women wearing full-face veils, are at odds with traditional French values, including the official secularism of the French state.
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There were at least a dozen glittering Coachella-gone-Baroque flower crowns in the room, some flounces and some trains, hats with veils, and colorful fur stoles, not to mention bejewelled corsets.
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Multiple bachelorette parties made the scene, so that when the headlining D.J., Claptone, began his Sunday set by sampling Seals & Crofts — "Summer breeze, makes me feel fine" — sunlit veils fluttered on cue.
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In practice, however, France's roughly 5 million Muslims have felt targeted because laïcité has mainly translated of late into laws banning head scarves in state schools and face-covering veils in public.
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In public, most women wear baggy black gowns called abayas, designed to hide their forms, as well as veils that cover their hair and faces, with only thin slits for their eyes.
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In April, authorities banned the region's 10 million Muslims from wearing long beards or veils in public, as well as banning home schooling and introducing new restrictions on downloading allegedly extremist materials.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament agreed to a draft law on Thursday that will prevent civil servants, judges and soldiers in Germany from wearing full-face veils at work.
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The fencing suggests a sly sense of displacement: "Walls are meant to exclude but also protect, and in this case they are used as veils and disguises," Smith says, examining the image.
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Off to one side stood the subject of the kerfuffle, several women, in sweeping black abayas and veils that covered all but their eyes, and three children: a girl and two boys.
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A news report said the Tehran Police were "deceived by the propaganda of a campaign named White Wednesdays" that called for women to remove their veils and wave them overhead on sticks.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norway aims to ban face-covering Muslim veils in kindergartens, schools and universities, the government said on Monday, the latest European nation to propose restrictions on wearing burqas and niqabs.
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The style here is in the tradition of the Japanese bunraku: the puppeteer-actors are shrouded in black clothing, with dark veils over their faces, and almost invisible against the dark background.
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But then the mood turned again, as if the specter of death had been vanquished, and out came a queue of almost saccharine tropical-print gowns worn with crownlike buds and veils.
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Jenovan Krishnan, 25, the leader of the Ring of Christian Democrat Students, a group with 8,000 members in several universities, said he and his associates wanted an explicit ban on face veils.
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Several countries — including France, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands — have either passed laws that led to bans on full face-covering veils in public, or are considering legislation that would do so.
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His discourse on crosswalks comes amid a two-hour stroll filled with such details, each one revealing some new facet of the city's logic and history, like little veils being peeled away.
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Although no reliable statistics exist on how many women wear full-face veils, opponents of the ban estimate only a small minority do, which doesn't address the security concerns claimed by lawmakers.
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As a teenager in 21995, she and her older sister, Shams, along with their mother, appeared at a public ceremony not wearing the veils that were a part of traditional dress in Iran.
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Authorities have banned long beards and veils in the region and government officials have forced homestays on Uyghur families, with the officials monitoring families for "suspicious" activities such as avoiding alcohol and pork.
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Despite the veils, trains, halos, and many (many) crosses that graced the Met Gala's red carpet Monday night, one accessory in particular caught our eye — one that has little to do with Catholicism.
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He said that death threats he received after advocating for a ban on Muslim women wearing veils in public and his unease following the 2017 shooting at Congressional baseball practice had rattled him.
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Death and The Emperor show up, apparently the tarot incarnations of Kim Jong Un (here a scythe-wielding woman in blue veils) and Moon Jae-in, the leaders of North and South Korea.
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After dealing with wedding overload (19 ceremonies over the past two years), Los Angeles-based magazine editor Marielle Wakim had witnessed her fair share of bridal processions, wedding veils and best man toasts.
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Melania and First Daughter Ivanka strictly stuck to the dress code, wearing long-sleeved black dresses and veils for the visit to the Vatican — just days after they ditched headscarves in Saudi Arabia.
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The previous coalition of Social Democrats and Kurz's conservatives, passed a law banning face coverings including Muslim full-face veils in public spaces, but women and girls are free to wear regular hijab.
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But as long as the agency veils its threats carefully, the only way to challenge such guidance is to call the agency's bluff and hope for a successful defense in an enforcement action.
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In the United States, a Georgia legislator withdrew a bill last year that would have banned Muslim women from wearing burqas or veils while driving or when their driver's license photos are taken.
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In Brooklyn, two women out walking their children in strollers were attacked this month, the police said, by a woman who screamed anti-Muslim obscenities and tried to rip off their traditional veils.
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In 2016, shortly after President Trump won the election, Mr. Spencer filed and then withdrew — following an outcry — a bill that critics said would have effectively banned Muslims from wearing veils in public.
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Ms. Markle wore a simple diamond tiara once worn by Queen Mary; of course, that was a royal privilege — a loan from Queen Elizabeth — but stores do sell simple tiaras and embellished veils.
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Veils and head scarves are political and social lightning rods in France, touching on issues so sensitive — secularism, feminism and the integration of Muslims — that they seem to inspire anger wherever they appear.
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Making fun of Islamic clothing, reducing the world's roughly 1.6 billion Muslim population to turbans and veils is offensive and incorrect, especially considering not all Muslims choose to cover or wear religious headgear.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government urged voters on Wednesday to reject a campaign for a nationwide ban on face veils, saying any decision on facial coverings was a matter for Switzerland's cantons individually.
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The authorities also enacted a sweeping anti-extremism law last year, with long beards, veils in public and home-schooling all on the ban list, prompting new denunciations from international human rights groups.
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The debate surrounding face-covering veils has surfaced in many countries around the world, with different sides portraying the ban as an attack on religious freedom or a necessity to enforce national security.
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The European Court of Human Rights, which considers cases that may undermine Europeans' civil and political rights, upheld Belgium's contentious ban on partial and full-face veils worn by Muslim women on Tuesday.
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Meanwhile a Muslim businessman, Mohammad Amin, responded to Mr Johnson's elevation by resigning from the Tory party in protest at the politician's record of inflammatory references to Islamic face-veils (such as "letter-boxes").
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The Chancellor has also recently toughened her position on the deportation of refugees who fail to qualify for asylum and has supported those calling for a ban on full-face veils where legally possible.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - The central Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik banned the wearing of full-face veils in public on Wednesday in a move the local government said would prevent tension among communities and boost security.
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She made sculptures of torn vaginas to illustrate the harm of genital cutting, statues depicting domestic violence and satirical figurines of women wearing full veils—a burgeoning practice in Mali, of which she disapproves.
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And for the 200 or so women in Denmark who wear a face veil, their world has grown smaller after a ban on niqab veils and body-length burqas in public spaces, said Khankan.
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The law is billed as a way to make schools, hospitals and public transport safer, but critics say its only aim is to get rid of Islamic veils, such as the burqa and niqab.
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The more daring supporters don green veils or T-shirts (under jackets they can quickly zip up), harking back to the mass protests, or Green Revolution, that followed a rigged presidential election in 2009.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban face veils in some public places, a law the government said was essential for security but which opponents said pandered to anti-Muslim sentiment.
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Few women in the Netherlands wear face veils, but a ban has long been a demand of Geert Wilders' anti-Islam opposition Freedom Party which is leading in polls ahead of elections in March.
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Women found violating the ban may be instructed by police to remove their veils, ordered to leave public areas, or can face fines of up to about $1,600 USD or six months in jail.
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It's music that's easy to nod along to, but it also contains dark undercurrents gradually revealed with each listen—in the same way Allison's visual art veils strange themes beneath bright, eye-stretching hues.
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Sitting next to a group of Saudi women who resembled large black crows in their billowing robes, double face veils and gloves, I noticed they all wore little rings that looked like miniature pedometers.
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Legislation in Quebec that would ban government employees from wearing religious face veils on the job is set for a final vote in the provincial legislature this month, and will almost certainly become law.
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The government recently announced plans to isolate certain migrants it wants to deport on a small, out-of-the-way island, and this summer, the Parliament prohibited the wearing of face veils in public.
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Based on Oscar Wilde's play of lust, violence and religion, the opera shocked conservative Met patrons with its dance of the seven veils and its heroine's climactic kiss of John the Baptist's severed head.
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Another ruse involved bringing children to a cemetery near Annemasse dressed as mourners — in black veils, carrying funeral wreaths — and having them climb a gravedigger's ladder to scale a wall within feet of Switzerland.
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Through our back and forth correspondence, I was fortunate enough to query him on the creative impulse, the immense challenges of creating, and the importance of pulling back the veils for a deeper look.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Saudi women are stepping on the face veils some are made to wear in the conservative kingdom and posting it on social media with the hashtag "the niqab under my foot".
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Ayah (left), 37, and Aisha, 18, both members of the group Kvinder I Dialog, sit in a shopping center near Copenhagen to protest the country's ban on wearing face veils in public on July 19.
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In a second video seen by Reuters, one of a group of four females covered in full-length Muslim veils claiming to be among the abducted girls said she did not want to return home.
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The commander in chief made worldwide headlines after he was photographed next to the serious-looking pontiff alongside wife Melania and daughter Ivanka, who donned long-sleeved black dresses and veils for the "stiff" visit.
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Public debate about a ban on full body veils has broken out in several European countries since three French Mediterranean cities banned body-covering Muslim burkini swimwear, saying the burkini defies French laws on secularism.
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The message backed up a less compromising tone on integrating migrants that Merkel set at a CDU party conference in December, when she called for a ban on full-face Muslim veils "wherever legally possible".
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Since her introduction in 1930, Drew has appeared as both a 16-year old high schooler and an 18-year old graduate, and has cracked a variety of cases, from vanishing veils to drug dealings.
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The report cited examples including a ban on headscarves for women in public sector jobs, the upholding of a ban on full-face veils in public, and an increase in religious-based workplace discrimination complaints.
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The fall-winter 2018/19 collection also intertwined all of the fashion house's iconic traits such as black lace, tight-fitting black dresses, veils, references to Italy's southern traditions and costumes as well as flowers.
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In recent years, the hijab and other Islamic veils have emerged as a topic of controversy, sparking heated discussions over the implications of the veil on religious freedom, women's equality, and, more recently, national security.
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Women were barred from wearing full-face veils in public places in 2011, and last year the European Union's highest court said that companies could bar employees from wearing visible religious symbols, including head scarves.
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In Xinjiang, dozens of mosques have been bulldozed, long beards and face veils have been banned, as has "choosing names in an abnormal way," seen as a reference to using Islamic names such as Mohammed.
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The attendants were in white faille silk frocks trimmed with lace and silver, and wore tulle veils attached to white Prince of Wales ostrich feathers, tipped with silver, and carried large bouquets of pink roses.
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Tisci has enticed younger buyers with his casual designs and revamped "TB" logo and there were plenty of luxury tracksuits, T-shirts, snazzy jackets, sneakers, sandals and baseball caps - with long sides or diamanté veils.
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Tisci has enticed younger buyers with his casual designs and revamped "TB" logo and there were plenty of luxury tracksuits, T-shirts, snazzy jackets, sneakers, sandals and baseball caps - with long sides or diamanté veils.
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Many Twitter users referred to a visit last month by President Donald Trump whose wife, Melania, and daughter Ivanka were widely praised by Saudi commentators for their elegance despite eschewing veils and wearing stylish dresses.
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Even in Burayda, the bastion of Saudi Arabia's puritanical rite, women have cut slits for their eyes in veils that hitherto fully covered their faces, and let their abayas slip from their heads to their shoulders.
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German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said this month the country intends to ban full-face veils in any place where identification is required, including in schools or government offices, to promote security and national cohesion.
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The Victorian era saw the development of two eerie photographic trends, one we now call hidden mothers, ghostly photographs of parents hidden behind veils and the other, post-mortem photography which captured images of the deceased.
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The government has responded by cracking down on what it sees as overt signs of religiosity, like veils or beards, and has periodically issued interviews with those captured after attacks who say they had been radicalized.
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Reuters reported that about 85033,300 people, many wearing face veils such as the burqa and niqab, marched to the police station on the outskirts of the capital and back to the city's central, left-wing district.
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Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt's 13-story blue and purple painting "Loopy Doopy" (also the namesake for the hotel's rooftop bar) makes a strong statement, complemented by Monica Ponce de Leon's "Veils," a dramatic dangling steel installation.
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On its website, the ministry also told residents to abide by the dress codes of nations they visited, and to take note of the ban on wearing face-covering veils in countries like France and Belgium.
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We reached the fairgrounds midafternoon, and there were already hundreds of people there: men in long white robes, women in black gowns with only their eyes showing through face veils, and children wearing whatever they wanted.
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In Trump's America, the agenda of "My Stealthy Freedom" confronts the further danger of being sucked into the maw of a massive American warmongering machine, eager to drop bombs, to eliminate veils and mean Muslim men.
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" By association, even men were at risk, as when Arthur Danto said of Morris Louis's poured paintings known as "Veils" — famously cribbed from Frankenthaler — that viewing them was like "walking through racks of negligees at Bendels.
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And all that came before the end of the play, during the first two acts, was about tearing away all the veils of politeness and psychoanalysis from that fantasy and exposing what lies at its core.
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Jakić's and Geringer's and Denic's eerily lingering visionary art may even be said to include the political function of strengthening society's powers of imagination by countering clean, fast, obvious, pop simplification with veils of visual commotion.
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In addition to enduring abuse for wearing Islamic clothing like headscarves and face veils, Muslim women often face a triple economic disadvantage, according to a 2016 parliamentary report, being female, Muslim and from an ethnic minority group.
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The European Court of Human Rights issued a similar decision in 2014, upholding a 2011 ban on the public wearing of face-covering veils in France, where the debate over displays of religion has been especially heated.
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Johnson, who resigned last month amid disagreements with Prime Minister Theresa May over her Brexit strategy, is at the center of controversy over an op-ed he wrote earlier this month arguing against banning full-face veils.
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El-Saieh's three large acrylic paintings, including one that is eight feet high by twelve feet wide, suggest from a distance speckled veils of atmospheric color, predominantly gray and white, red and blue, or green and yellow.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian state Islamic university faced criticism from Muslim groups and activists on Wednesday after it banned female students from wearing full-face veils citing fears over the spread of radical ideology on the campus.
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A Human Rights Watch report in December claimed millions of Xinjiang residents were having their DNA, fingerprints and retinal scans collected; earlier in 2017, the region's Muslims were banned from wearing long beards or veils in public.
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Some 5,000 miles away, in the wilderness of Ethiopia's Omo Valley, nomadic tribes still string veils of blushing pink buds, twist grass into shaggy wigs and wear single, giant leaves as skullcaps, as they have always done.
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Its thin veils, splatters and rivulets of gray, ocher and blue wash and horizon-free space would find little echo outside of Miró's work until around 21927, with the pouring techniques of Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler.
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At his show at the National Portrait Gallery on Monday (closed for the occasion, to some consternation), velvet frocked, brocaded women in net veils glided through galleries; they might just as well have come off the walls.
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Spitting into one of those test tubes a few years ago, I felt as if I were perched on the edge of a void: Here was a moment when all the veils had the potential to fall.
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Every woman living in the foreigner annex wears a full-length black abaya, the robes that the militants required in their territory; some still wear black gloves and niqabs or even full face veils, obscuring the eyes.
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It would appear, consistent with the Obama administration's regulatory playbook, that the STB is trying to implement a new and justified price regulation regime for which "competition" and "reciprocal switching" serve as the thinnest of veils. Why?
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The first street action that we did was at the New York Pride parade, where 49 people dressed in white and veils, each holding a placard with the photo of one of the people who had died.
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LONDON – Republican strategist Steve Bannon weighed into British politics Sunday in a wide-ranging interview in which he defended former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson&aposs comments about Muslim face veils and praised a controversial British far-right leader.
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Full and partial face veils such as burqas and niqabs divide opinion in Europe, setting religious freedom advocates against secularists and those who say that the garments are culturally alien or a symbol of the oppression of women.
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Uighurs have traditionally followed a moderate form of Islam but many have begun adopting practices more common in more conservative Muslim countries, such as full-face veils for women, while China has stepped up security in recent years.
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Multiple European countries have banned women from wearing veils that cover their face in public, and a lawmaker in Austria went a step further, recently proposing that the nation forbid public servants from wearing any type of headscarf.
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Photos capturing Trump and his entourage and the Pope together show Melania and Ivanka dressed in all black with veils covering their hair, and people quickly noted that Pope Francis looks less than pleased in one specific pic.
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Three female party members said other voters and authorities securing the polling stations appeared surprised to see the group of women wearing all-encompassing burqa gowns and niqabs, the full-face veils worn by ultra-conservative Muslim women.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian Hindu nationalist group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Wednesday for a ban on veils after Sri Lanka prohibited the garments worn by some Muslim women following militant bomb attacks there.
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There is also the fact that D'Eramo, for all her fascination with the return of the repressed, never really gets to the nub of her own behavior, never really penetrates beyond her cognitive dance of the seven veils.
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Painted statuettes of the Virgin made by Ms. Dickens from charcoal-colored clay sat alongside a vast number of other Eastern and Christian religious icons, and odd little figurines of British colonial soldiers draped in cobweb-like veils.
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LIMA (Reuters) - In Peru's capital, a group dressed in biblical-style robes, veils, and sandals gathered one recent Sunday night to celebrate an unlikely victory: their congregation had overnight become a major force in the country's new Congress.
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In addition, Maxwell has called on two of his friends — self-proclaimed "modern milliner" Gigi Burris and fine jewelry designer Eva Fehren — to provide veils and wedding bands for each of the three winners (and their significant others).
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The Egerkinger Committee, a lobby group that succeeded through a referendum in 2009 in banning minarets, and wants to do the same for Muslim face veils, has called for immigrants shunning Swiss customs to be shown the door.
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While leafing through her mother's and grandmother's photo albums, she yearned for experiences her generation never had: walking through the streets of Tehran in colorful skirts instead of compulsory veils; strolling along the Caspian Sea coast in bikinis.
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"When we finally made it to a peshmerga (Kurdish forces) position, we took our veils off and raised our hands — with our all-black clothes we were scared they'd think we were Daesh and shoot us," she said.
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ESSEN, Germany — To loud applause, Chancellor Angela Merkel told her party members on Tuesday that Germany should ban full-face veils "wherever legally possible" and that it would not tolerate any application of Shariah law over German justice.
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Many Twitter users zeroed in on a visit to the kingdom last month by President Donald Trump whose wife Melania and daughter Ivanka were widely praised by Saudi commentators for their elegance despite eschewing veils and wearing stylish dresses.
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The ban, the first of its kind in the Balkan country, was backed from politicians across the political spectrum in the town of some 70,000 people, where wearing full-face veils had become common among some Muslim Roma women.
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In Hui strongholds like Linxia, a city in Gansu known as China's "Little Mecca," there are mosques on every other block and women can sometimes be seen with veils, a sartorial choice that can lead to detention in Xinjiang.
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In 20183 she began a campaign against Iran&aposs laws forcing women to wear hijabs or veils and even though she was out of the regime&aposs reach her activism resulted in threats against her family and their livelihoods.
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Full and partial face veils such as burqas and niqabs divide opinion across Europe, setting advocates of religious freedom against secularists and those who argue that such garments are culturally alien or a symbol of the oppression of women.
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I could not decipher which of the four Saudi women in identical billowing black robes and black gloves was speaking to me because their faces were covered with not one but two veils, something I had never seen before.
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In April 2011, France became the first country in Europe to impose a ban on full-face veils in public areas, meaning that Muslim women who wore face-covering niqabs or burkas were no longer allowed to do so.
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William F. Galvin, the secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, called it ''the dance of the seven veils,'' and said he would be distributing extra party registration cards for the March 7 primary for people wanting to switch back.
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Later at the same club, a woman named Ruby (played by Charlyne Yi) is kicked out of her booth by two burly dudes, and forced to crawl around screaming during a performance by this week's musical guest, The Veils.
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If we're taking bets, we're not not anticipating Madonna-esque (the musician, not the OG Holy Mother) iron crosses c/o Chanel, gilded capes, and shrouds and veils that would fit right in with the cast of The Handmaid's Tale.
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Uighurs have traditionally followed a moderate form of Islam but many have begun adopting practices more common in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, such as full-face veils for women, as China has stepped up a security crackdown in recent years.
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A day after Merkel called for a ban on full-face Muslim veils "wherever legally possible", her Christian Democrats (CDU) endorsed that message and stressed the values they want the 13,21 migrants who arrived in Germany last year to adopt.
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A teacher in one of the deserted schools in the Soum province said her school had taken in a colleague from a neighboring school who had been surrounded by armed men and ordered to make his female pupils wear veils.
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No matter how the half-a-747 is presented, it will be outshone by other, even larger crowdfunded constructions like the 17,000-square-foot Catacomb of Veils or the now-traditional Temple, which this year will be 100-feet talll.
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Our feature "What in the World" debuts today with a guide to Muslim veils; what to call Burma's leader for short; Brazil's plans for an erotic theme park; and India's experiment with making cows less gassy to help the environment.
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The Italian girls at the next table, around her own age or younger, looked right: with their Lycra shorts and white crop tops, their dancing, bare midriffs so flat and brown, veils of shining hair flying behind them when they turned.
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Lee, who has wondered publicly about "my own violent nature" and "the nature of violent male behavior," is a searching poet of fathers and sons, alert to how domestic space warps around contemplative men and whatever latent rage their silence veils.
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"She was often reprimanded by her own relatives in her village for having abandoned the purdah and for coming out on the streets and joining protest rallies," he said, referring to women being secluded from men and wearing veils in public.
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According to the Wedding Report, which tracks industry trends, based on government data and surveys of couples, the average amount spent on dress accessories (mostly veils, but other items, too) was $226 in 2015, a drop of 1.3 percent from 2014.
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Several dozen women wearing face veils faced off with police chanting, "down with the house of Saud" when a group of masked youths arrived and threw stones and petrol bombs at the personnel, who responded with tear gas and birdshot.
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While the government says the law doesn't target any religion, the party that first suggested the law nine years ago, the anti-immigration Danish People's Party, said it was a reflection that full-face Islamic veils were incompatible with Danish culture.
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And veils shadowed Simone Rocha's posy-speckled bubble tulle twist on her Chinese heritage, featuring paintings of Tang dynasty concubines sourced from Hong Kong flea markets — "imitations of imitations," she said backstage — all offset by cool culottes and belted jackets.
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The central screen or scrim (the knit pattern, in black), which rests on what looks like a horizontal base or plinth, flanked by clusters of blackish, post-and-lintel-like stripes, imperfectly veils mysterious passageways that seem perpetually shrouded in shadow.
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For Ms. Sina, the task in that rehearsal was to amp up the frenzy in an unbridled scene of group ecstasy — not quite an orgy, but something like it, all in a swirl of long veils and floor-length skirts.
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Her discovery set off a wave of pain and soul-searching but also a campaign to strip away some of the veils of confidentiality that colleges say protect the privacy and autonomy of students who are learning to be adults.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's coalition government promised on Monday to ban Muslim face-covering veils and to restrict eastern European workers' access to the labor market, in a package of policies aimed at countering the rise of the far-right Freedom Party.
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Sunday's meeting marked the second time the left-leaning lawmakers have held exploratory talks and came after Merkel's CDU moved to the right at a party conference last week, at which she called for a ban full-face Muslim veils.
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In a suite of four woodcuts called "Towards the Forest," we can at least see his exploratory, mad-scientist moves as he, somehow — I couldn't figure out how — lays down veils of diaphanous color and makes images come and go before our eyes.
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As for de Maizière's rationale for prohibiting (or at least limiting) the full-coverage veils, it's because the garment "doesn't fit with our country and does not correspond to our understanding of the role of women," he said, per The New York Times.
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An Iranian woman's public act of defiance against the government's rules mandating wearing the headscarf last month in Tehran inspired at least a dozen other women to take off their veils in public this week, making waves in Iran and across social media.
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Other emojis that strive to represent everyone on the spectrum include nonbinary icons in wedding attire — both veils and tuxes, available in six different skin tones, as well as a man dressed in his own veil and gown without compromising his mustache.
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Much of the rhetoric and the aesthetics surrounding the Handmaids is drawn from the rhetoric and aesthetic of nuns — the veils, the seclusion, the talk of religious sacrifice — but historically, nuns have consistently found ways of defying authority and claiming power for themselves.
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Whether you are a dedicated acolyte of cloud seeding and veils or a committed opponent to any tampering of earth's environment, he has developed a book that forces us to think about our actions and ultimately what the consequences of those choices are.
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Diluting her paints to the fine consistency of watercolors, she applied the liquid to unprimed canvas, laid on the floor, so that it soaked through in broadly spreading stains, creating opalescent veils of color, bright yet soft, not quite like anything seen before.
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In his most fully realized works — not in this show but hinted at by smudgy drawings of bouquets in vases — Mr. Bleckner would create visionary, darkly luminous spaces of mourning, populated by fluttering birds, ribbons, veils, chandeliers and funereal flowers in silvery vases.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Restrictions on face and full-body veils are back in the spotlight in parts of Europe after some French cities banned the burkini swimsuit, saying the garment, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies laws on secularism.
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His electronic work "Veils and Vesper," two six-hour pieces designed to run concurrently, a gorgeous junction of ascending and descending and static tones rendered in the frequency spectrum known as pink noise, were heard as a sound installation in a church.
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The CSU party also has demanded a ban on the Muslim full-face and partial-face veils, an end to dual citizenship, iron-clad rules that newcomers socially integrate and learn German and an upper limit of 200,000 asylum seekers a year.
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Yesi, who runs a shop there called Al-Fatih, said her popular products were khimars, headscarves that go down to the stomach, and niqabs, veils that cover most of the face, at prices ranging from 20,000 rupiah to 200,000 rupiah ($1.40-$14).
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But, in a counter move to a referendum to be held by 2020, the government said it would propose to voters a ban on face veils being worn by individuals while doing business with federal authorities, including in immigration offices or employment agencies.
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In a hardening of her stance on migrants' integration in Germany, Merkel this week called for a ban on full-face Muslim veils "wherever legally possible" and the CDU passed a resolution on tackling forced marriage and honour killings, and cracking down on dual citizenship.
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Angela Merkel laid out her case for a fourth term as German chancellor on Tuesday, seeking to energize her conservatives with a call to ban full-face Muslim veils and the promise of a tougher stance on immigration after a record influx of refugees.
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In 2015, Canada's then Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, became the first leader of his country to host an iftar: this was despite the widespread perception that his party was playing to anti-Muslim sentiment by, for example, banning face veils during citizenship ceremonies.
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The law, passed by the lower house but still requiring the senate's approval, bans veils and other items that hide the face such as ski masks and helmets, in places where identifying the wearer is considered essential, including government buildings, public transport, schools and hospitals.
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The Austrian poll findings suggest the centrist coalition government, or at least Chancellor Christian Kern's SPO, is gaining traction with a new policy program aimed at eroding FPO support, which includes a ban on Muslim face-covering veils and a range of security measures.
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The new storefront features venue and reception décor (like signs, table decorations, candles, confetti, etc.), invitations and other paper products, handmade jewelry, bridal and groom fashion accessories (hair accessories, hats, veils, sashes, handbags, garters, ties, cufflinks, etc.), and gifts and mementos for the wedding party.
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Clara lined them with pink or blue satin, and sewed blankets, pillows, and veils for the funerals—solemn ceremonies during which Glenn recited former US senator George Graham Vest's "Eulogy of the Dog" before lowering the pet into the four-foot-deep grave he'd dug.
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The law will prohibit public workers like doctors and teachers from covering their faces at work, and will effectively bar Muslim women who wear face veils from using public transportation or obtaining public health care services, although it will be possible to apply for exemptions.
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The gallery exhibits vintage wedding veils and christening gowns and sells smaller items, including wedding garters, Christmas decorations and lace brooches like the one that Enda Kenny, the former Taoiseach, or prime minister of Ireland, brought to the White House for Melania Trump in 2017.
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There were some nods to modern exigencies in the form of houndstooth trouser suits in the same lean, puff-sleeved silhouette and a flirtation with the question of gender identification (those veils hid boys as well as girls), but the mood was almost spectrally mysterious.
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Rather, it takes the form of the designer's die-hard followers, who routinely, almost religiously, turn out in force dressed in Frankenstein boots, bondage straps, veils of chain mail, and with faces painted to look like a cross between Morticia Addams and Exene Cervenka.
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In France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Bulgaria and Norway, where bans on face veils are in force or in the works, they have been portrayed as a defense of women against patriarchal subjugation, or as a security measure, or as an incentive to assimilation.
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Ms. Merkel apparently believes that her endorsement of restrictions on face veils "wherever legally possible" is a relatively innocuous sop to discontent among Germans over her decision to allow more than a million asylum-seekers, most of them Muslims, into the country since 2015.
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"Sébastien Meunier used lacy wimples-cum-veils to frame a notably more romantic collection that built on the shipwrecked tailoring of the brand's founder and brought it forward: into billowing silk dresses in dusky rose; slouchy crushed velvet; and sweeping leather greatcoats," our critic wrote.
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In the statement, Spencer blamed his actions on his "paralyzing fear that my family would be attacked" in the wake of the 2017 shooting at a Congressional baseball practice, and after he received death threats for advocating for a ban on Muslim women wearing veils in public.
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Presently, more than 20153 colleges and universities are under investigation by the Education Department for violating Title IX in their handling of sexual-assault complaints, a problem that has been exacerbated by the reflexive secrecy that veils the disciplinary proceedings at most institutions of higher education.
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Whenever it seems to have landed on an image that can really conjure that feeling of overwhelming oppression — the face veils, Aunt Lydia pushing June's head down on the Waterfords' TV set — it immediately walks the image back and saps all the power out of it.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has also said niqabs and burqas should be banned in her country, and just last week the German Parliament approved banning civil servants, judges, and soldiers from wearing the veils (though it still needs to pass the upper house before becoming law).
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Even though those bans were ultimately determined to be illegal by the country's highest administrative courts, that hasn't stopped one mayor from instituting rules that prohibit "monokinis, burkinis, [and] veils that partially or totally conceal the face" at a local water park that opened in June.
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BERLIN — Europe's battle over public attire for Muslim women moved on Friday from the outcry over banning "burkinis" in France to a strong call from Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing conservative bloc for a ban in Germany on face veils in schools and universities and while driving.
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"I think this is becoming more of an issue because it's actually being recognized as an issue, rather than hidden behind the veils that existed for previous generations," said Melanie Boyd, an assistant dean for student affairs at Yale College who oversees sexual violence prevention programs.
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Last year, the European Court of Human Rights upheld Belgium's ban on the wearing of face veils in public, ruling that the country could be allowed to implement it in order to enhance people's ability to "live together" pursuant to the "protection of rights of others."
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As the mist slowly evaporates to expose a breathtaking view of the rugged Helan Mountains, scores of women dressed in jeans, light jumpers and colorful head veils crouch along rows of vines, expertly cutting the dark-colored, ripe grapes and collecting them in green plastic cases.
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Citing a desire to protect Latvian culture and to address security concerns at a time of rising migration to Europe, the government is working on proposed legislation, inspired partly by similar restrictions on head coverings in France, that would ban face-covering veils from public spaces.
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As we all know, three's a trend, so yesterday when Maria Grazia Chiuri's Dior girls came down the catwalk in red, black and white beaded caps (this time, with funeral-style netted veils covering their faces), it was confirmed: swimming caps are a tangible trend for spring 2019.
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Swarmed by a diverse and peaceful group of witches, the block party boasted free workshops, blessings, and rituals to ring in the summer season, as well as several small pop-up shops offering everything from healing crystals, incense, magic veils, tarot card readings, and goddess-themed coloring books.
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Image 2 of 2 MOSCOW – In jeans, headscarves and veils, dozens of Saudi women draped in their country&aposs green flag and sporting matching face paint streamed into Moscow&aposs Luzhniki Stadium on Thursday to support their national team against Russia in the World Cup&aposs opening match.
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At the halfway point of Season 2, a group of handmaids sets off a bomb (a bomb in Gilead, get it?) and then … nothing major happened, except that the handmaids were given dramatic mourning veils, much in the way the cheerleaders on "Riverdale" have funeral-specific cheerleading uniforms.
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In a lovely Ann Demeulemeester show, Sébastien Meunier used lacy wimples-cum-veils to frame a notably more romantic collection that built on the shipwrecked tailoring of the brand's founder and brought it forward: into billowing silk dresses in dusky rose; slouchy crushed velvet; and sweeping leather greatcoats.
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Editorial After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students' skirt lengths, France's perennial problem with Muslim women's attire has taken its most farcical turn yet with a new controversy over the "burkini," body-covering swimwear whose name is an amalgam of burqa and bikini.
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To share that experience at SculptureCenter, she's creating an intimate karaoke lounge—or what she calls a "karaoke spiritual center of love"—with luxurious seats and drapery pieced together out of prayer rugs, veils, women's lingerie, and textiles Khan's family had been saving to give her when she got married.
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Yet behind the patterned metal lattice that veils the 17-story tower is a contemporary ryokan or rather, several: Each floor in the tower is designed to be like a six-room ryokan with a tatami hall and common lounges (ochanoma) where guests can find books, sake, teas and treats.
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Horgos Journal HORGOS, China — Except for men with long beards and women wearing veils or jewelry with a crescent moon motif, just about anyone can enter Chinese territory — at least a few miles of it — across a frontier marked only by two thin stripes of paint daubed across the road.
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This 23-minute montage film uses in-camera superimpositions, saturated colors, the exotic veils and costumes of Smith and company, and the repetitive chords of the cimbalom (played by a pre-Velvet Underground Angus MacLise and engineered by minimalist composer Tony Conrad) to create a film of instant bliss and trance.
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But his imitators rarely come up with movies as pointless as "Naples in Veils," which tips its hat vigorously toward the master's motifs — the lost-and-found doubling of "Vertigo," the repressed trauma of "Marnie," possibly even Salvador Dalí's eye design from "Spellbound" — only to wind up as a tedious muddle.
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Chilly veils of sodden grey mist drifted across the moor and draped themselves around him, and for the first time since he set off early that morning he felt moved to pray aloud for protection to his name saint, who had borne the infant Christ on his back across the river.
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" She also retweeted a supportive message from one of her followers who mentioned that in addition to wearing masks himself, the late King of Pop frequently covered up the faces of Paris and her brothers Prince and Blanket, now known as B.G. "He even disguised YOUR face, and your brothers, with veils.
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Analysis of "The Primer of Claude of France," dating from around 1505, a sophisticated ABC picture-book that Anne of Brittany used to educate her 5-year-old daughter, Claude, has revealed that a subsequent owner gave leafy loincloths and veils to the originally naked Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
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I listened to this when I was way, way too high on gummies and the lines, "I was in a land where men force women / To hide their facial features / And here in the West it's just the same / But they're using make-up veils," sent me spiraling into a paroxysm of introspection.
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In Hazaribagh, the packed Dhaka neighborhood where Mr. Ullah grew up, many women wear full veils, just a narrow rectangle of exposed skin around their eyes, and many men keep their beards bushy, their mustaches trimmed and their pants carefully hemmed above the ankle, potential signs of a stricter form of Islam.
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In that one small, sturdy leather gripsack she managed to pack an astonishing array of items, including a silk bodice, three veils, a pair of slippers, a toiletry set, an inkstand, pens, paper, needles and thread, a dressing gown, a tennis blazer, a flask and drinking cup, several changes of underwear and handkerchiefs.
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The atmosphere is admittedly striking, as one has come to expect from the work of the writer-director Yael Farber: shimmering veils of falling sand, billowing sheets, as well as lighting from Tim Lutkin that irradiates the vast reaches of the Olivier stage, where the play runs in repertory through July 15.
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LONDON — If British plans for leaving the European Union have been a dance of the seven veils, the British government removed one of them on Sunday, letting slip to news media that Prime Minister Theresa May is likely to choose to exit Europe's single market and its customs union — a so-called hard Brexit. Mrs.
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Burle Marx's home is host to his vast collection of Brazilian ceramics from the Vale do Jequitinhonha, a region in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, which includes massive clay vases, small round pots sprouting multiple heads, terra–cotta figurines of men and women in matching white outfits, and busts of women wearing veils.
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Xinjiang's 10m Uighurs (nearly half of its population) have long been used to heavy-handed curbs: a ban on unauthorised pilgrimages to Mecca, orders to students not to fast during Ramadan, tough restrictions on Islamic garb (women with face-covering veils are sometimes not allowed on buses), no entry to many mosques for people under 18, and so on.
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A balance needs to be struck, but European attempts to restrict what Europeans see as expressions of religious illiberalism — from bans on veils in French schools to permitting a schoolteacher to sue a Muslim man for failure to show her a respect equal to men — may push the weight on the scale of justice beyond the tipping point.
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While "Gospel" makes the civil rights movement an implicit subplot — he recalls the Durham hat store in which black women had to put on veils before they were allowed to try on hats — and uses the political rise of Donald J. Trump as a loose framing device, it shies away from deep excavations on race and fashion.
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An Iranian activist based in the United States, Masih Alinejad, who has a show on Voice of America's Persian-language satellite channel, has called on women in Iran to observe "White Wednesdays," wearing white and removing their veils and waving them overhead on sticks to protest the compulsory hijab and other religious restrictions imposed on women.
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Thom Browne designed a collection inspired by 18th-century French gardens as only he could: Seersucker blazers and ties were paired with short crinoline cages; skirts swung from the hips, suspended from tricolor ribbons; robes à la polonaise appeared to be made from piles of other garments, or completely trompe l'oeil; veils covered Marie Antoinette worthy-wigs.
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That same process has played out in other countries, with somewhat less extreme results, as center-right politicians have swung hard to the right on matters of immigration and Muslim integration in the Netherlands, France and even Germany itself, where Ms. Merkel gave a speech in December calling for a ban on full-face veils for Muslim women.
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When former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson spoke out against Denmark's burqa ban earlier this month, he made it clear he still wasn't a fan of the veils; the women who wear the "oppressive" garments look like "letter boxes" or "bank robbers," he wrote in his Telegraph column, and businesses should be allowed to "enforce a dress code" on their own.
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To break through veils like spiders' webs,crack carapaces like a day-moth and achievea clarified frenzy and feel the blood settlelike a brown afternoon stream in River Doreeis what I pulsed for in my brain and wristfor the drifting benediction of a drizzledrying on this page like asphalt, for peace that passeslike a changing cloud, to a hawk's slow pivot.
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But Behbahani's remarkable ability to blend different shades of blue, green, and lilac paint over paisley designs in "Garden of the Envy of Paradise," and diaphanous layers of pink, yellow, and lavender that resemble floating veils intermingled with elaborate patterns of latticework from Islamic architecture in "Consolidating the Plan," transcend the marring effect of the black shapes, lending an underlying tranquility to both works.
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CNN senior White House correspondent Jim AcostaJames (Jim) AcostaPlayboy White House correspondent says he'll sue over suspended credentials Trump judges face scrutiny over president's cases Playboy plans to appeal after reporter says his White House credentials were suspended MORE on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of advocating an immigration policy that thinly veils their intent to restrict immigrants coming to the United States based on race and ethnicity.
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Lingerie played a role, so did hot pants and so did sweatpants, all of it in shades of powder pink and lilac and ivory and army green, all of it accessorized to the hilt with ropes of pearls, lace do-rags, backpacks ruffled like petticoats, baseball caps with net veils complete with little leaping pumas, giant platform hi-tops, and a fanny pack made in the shape of a big pink bow.
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In a 2011 article in the wedding pages of The Times, Tom Mora, the head of women's designs at J. Crew at the time, said that brides-to-be "know that they are getting a gown that is comparable to a designer gown at a more approachable price," noting that some brides had begun pairing the company's less expensive gown with family heirlooms, like veils and jewelry, while others chose high-end accessories.
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" Never mind that this land hosted the Golden Fleece; spawned wine and Stalin ; and inspired Chekhov to write, during an 21921 visit, "I saw the sea in all its vastness, the Caucasian shore, mountains, mountains, mountains, eucalyptuses, tea plants, waterfalls, pigs with long pointed snouts, trees wrapped in lianas like veils, clouds spending the night on the breast of giant cliffs, dolphins, fountains of oil, subterranean fires, a fireworshippers' temple, mountains, mountains, mountains.
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At least to this observer, the jackets with detachable pockets, the hats with beekeeper veils, the washed denim work wear and the quietly tailored suits with short pants cropped just below the knee also called to mind the ostentatious simplicity of couture stuff that Hubert de Givenchy used to design and produce in bulk for the American heiress Bunny Mellon to wear as she rooted around in the vegetable gardens and greenhouses of her vast Virginia estate, Oak Spring.
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