Thank you New York Times for reporting on this. I am consistently pounding my head against a wall when I'm trying to break down stereotypes Westerners have of Muslim women. When I went to Qatar I tried to use humor to make the American guys I was with see the other side of the story.
Me: I want to buy an abaya and wear it.
Them: (look of concern on their faces)
Me: That way I could wear it at meetings and nobody would know that I was asleep
Them: (howls of laughter)
Me: And I could walk down the street and pretend not to see people that I didn't want to talk to, and best of all, they wouldn't even know it was me!
Them: (howls of laughter)
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