As the crowd wrangles and shoves, the woman forces her unheeding way through the faces and chadors and disappears off the bottom of the screen. |
Students and teachers in all-female schools have been attending classes since the late-September start of the academic year without headscarves and chadors. |
The physical presence of heavy, life-size garment bags evokes the figures of women concealed in chadors increasingly seen in Amer's native Egypt. |
The advancing camera discloses that the black mass consists of women in chadors, bobbing in unruly rhythms. |
While wrapped in cumbersome chadors and burq'as, women exercise more rights here than in the ultra-conservative states on the other side of the Persian Gulf. |
Students dressed in everything from chadors to blue jeans and t-shirts have attended and taken an interest. |