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In one video, filmed in the female-only section of a metro car, a woman clad in black challenged the unveiled woman in front of her: “You’re provoking the regime. Our men did not go to war so you could go out naked.” Masih knew that argument, she’d heard it when her own brothers went to battle against Saddam’s Iraq in the 1980s.
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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