Egypt's veiled presenter in breakthrough TV appearance

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1. I suspect this comment won't go down well here,

but (as a woman) I don't find this a step forward for equality. I understand it is a choice, but I have a feeling that soon it will become a 'choice' in the same way that wearing a headscarf was a choice under Mubarak - only reversed.

Then, if a woman chose to wear a headscarf, she was not allowed in front of the camera. It will not surprise me at all if pretty soon women who choose not to wear the headscarf are not allowed in front of the camera.

Creeping, government-sanctioned religiosity rarely works to the advantage of women.