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As a young girl growing up in colonial Algeria, Marnia Lazreg was enjoined by her grandmother to wear a veil, to “protect” herself. Ms. Lazreg refused. She didn’t feel the need for such protection, and the veil wouldn’t provide it anyway. The answer she came up with in a collection of five essays, “Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women,” published in 2009, was the same she had given her grandmother so many years before: a firm negative. Her death, in a hospital where she was being treated for cancer, was confirmed by her son Ramsi Woodcock.
Persons: Marnia Lazreg, , Lazreg, Ramsi Woodcock Organizations: Hunter College Locations: Algeria, Manhattan
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