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“Female athletes in the Middle East face pressures that include family, religion, politics, and culture,” said the research cited by Trade Arabia website.
“These issues often take place over use or nonuse of the hijab, the traditional head covering for Muslim women.”
The research, “Muslim Female Athletes and the Hijab”, is the result of a year-long cooperation between Northwestern sociologist Geoff Harkness and his course student Samira Islam.
It found that veiled Muslim athletes managed to excel in sports fields, overcoming a unique set of challenges with regard to the ‘hijab’ which is not faced by their Western counterparts.
http://muslimvillage.com/2012/02/14/19601/hijab-no-barrier-for-muslim-athletes-to-excel/
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