February 02, 1972 (vol. 82, iss. 95) • Page Image 4
… Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Women in Morocco: Behind the veil 4 ' 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764…
… theirs is a place with too s much religion and not enough human- ity. -ROBERT SCHREINER By DANIEL ZWERDLING A WOMAN'S life in Morocco or Algeria, or any Arab-Moslem society, isn't exactly roses. She…
… spends her life literally under wraps - the traditional Arab robes and veil. She can't pause for a cup or int tea in a cafe, or stroll through the town chat- ting with friends - unless she's walking to and…
… delicious food. Arab women are delicious cooks. THIS NEW WAY of looking at women (or not looking at them, since they pass like timid shadows) slaps me suddenly my second night in Morocco. I'm sitting in a…
… wife was Belgian. "We divorced after four years, after she lost her, liveli- ness," Mohammed tells me. He' shakes his head sadly - he should have known that a man from the Arab culture can't be satis…
…, intertwining fingers in the others. I told Lotfi, a young student in Fez, that if I held hands with my male friends in the United States, people would stare at us uncomfortably and type us as "queer." He couldn…
…. "Where will you find any vir- gins?" Once an Arab sleeps with a woman, he loses respect for her. In fact, any woman who comes from behind her robes - and - as they see it - flaunts her sexuality, doesn…
…'t deserve re- spect. That's why American women in jeans, or short dresses, and tee shirts (especially without bras) hate Morocco. Arab men pinch their breasts, rub against them and stick their hands in their…

















































