Even as publics in many of the surveyed Muslim-majority countries express a clear preference for women to dress conservatively, many also say women should be able to decide for themselves what to wear.

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

In my world regional geography class I have 15 weeks to teach about everything in the whole world…no pressure.  Clearly, this course is designed to be a mile wide and an inch deep and I can’t teach the nuanced details each country.  However, one thing that I try to reinforce every semester is that their is a tremendous about of diversity within regions.  No country, region, ethnic or religious group is perfectly homogenous. 

Tags: Middle East, regions, gender, culture, Islam, perspective, culture, religion.

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