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Op-Ed: Women's freedom, not hijab, is the issue in Iran
"Iranian women are demanding the right to freedom and choice by refusing to let the state define what they should or should not wear." Arwa Hussein, PhD Student and Concordia Public Scholar.
This op-ed by Arwa Hussain, doctoral candidate in Religions and Public Scholar, discusses why the protests in Iran over the hijab should not be used to justify "hijab bans" and Islamophobia. This article was published on September 22 as part of the Public Scholars program and in collaboration with the Montreal Gazette.