Shopping for Head Scarves, Jordanian Style
MEI Encounter
Shopping for Head Scarves, Jordanian Style
September 15, 2008
*Before I left for my Rotary International scholarship year in ‘Amman, I had many conversations like this:
“So … you are going to live in … Jordan?”
At which point I would explain about Rotary, Rotary scholarships, and my interests in Arabic, the Middle East, and intercultural dialogue.
Then invariably one of their real concerns emerges: “How will you figure out what to wear?”*
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Liana Paris works for the IDP Monitoring Programme of the International Organization for Migration’s Iraq Mission. She has lived in ‘Amman since 2007, when she came as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar. Liana is a graduate of Brown University and was a Publications Intern at MEI in 2007.
Disclaimer: Assertions and opinions in this Encounter are solely those of the above-mentioned author(s) and do not reflect necessarily the views of the Middle East Institute, which expressly does not take positions on Middle East policy.
