All posts by Claire Sydenham

Claire Sydenham has taught English both in the US and abroad, and is the author of a new novel, Silk Armor, which takes place in Turkey; available at amazon.com.

Muslim Niqab in America – By Claire Sydenham

Last semester I went through an experience I’d never gone through before in my teaching career: I taught a student whose face I couldn’t see. The reason? She was from Saudi Arabia, and she was wearing a niqab, that part of her all-black outfit that covered her face from the bridge of the nose down.

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