Scarves of Many Color: Muslim Women and the Veil
A memorial curriculum in honor of the life and work of Joan Hawkinson Bohorfoush 

As an Islamic practice, veiling is known by several names: the hijab, the burqa and the chador. Veiling is a matter of degree ranging from the colorful head scard to the black face and full body veil.  The custom may have had its origin in the protection, honor and distinction of women in Byzantine and Persian societies, and spread by conquering Muslins who assimilated the pratice.  It is a sign which tells the public, especiall the male public, that women are respectable and are not to be harassed.  It is also an affirmation of identity in an increasingly Westernized wrold.  From Morocco to Malaysia to the US, it has different meannings. 

...The veil means something utterly different when women are forced to wearit, as by the Taliban in contemporary Afghanistan, from a situation where it is freely adoped as an expression of cultural Idenity.    from Scarves of Many Colors 

This curriculm was reviewed and used by Oregon teachers and published by
Teaching for Change, paper, 54 pages, pub.2000