I grew up in Cairo, Egypt. Through the decades of my childhood and youth – the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s – the veil was a rarity not only at home but in many Arab and Muslim-majority cities. In fact, when Albert Hourani, the Oxford historian, surveyed the Arab world in the mid-1950s, he predicted that the veil would soon be a thing of the past.
我在埃及开罗长大。在我的童年和青年时代——上世纪40、50和60年代——面纱还很罕见。不只是开罗，在许多以阿拉伯及穆斯林人口为主的城市也是如此。事实上，牛津(Oxford)历史学家艾伯特•胡拉尼(Albert Hourani)在50年代中期考察了整个阿拉伯世界后预言，面纱将很快成为历史。
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