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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

How a Saudi paper prints pictures of women

In the "Books" section of the Okaz newspaper there are articles written by both men and women. But while those written by men are accompanied with their photographs, for the women's articles the pictures are all the same:
Why don't they just use a generic picture like this?
It's more accurate - and more modest. You never know what evil thoughts might go through men's head from looking at the illustration - with hair visible, no less.