A Quiet Revolution Table Cloth and the question of sexuality

and the question of sexuality in Islam

And how can Muslims move from formalism -- a fixation on ritual -- toward a committed spiritual and social presence

physically and virtually

such as veiling

Two Citiesis a simple love story

A Quiet Revolution Table Cloth and the question of sexualityIn Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West?