Ighraa

Nihad Alaeddin was once one of the great sirens of Syrian cinema. Working under the stage name Igraa, or Seduction, she embodied the openness and liberalism that reigned in the Arab world during the 1960s and '70s, performing the region's first cinematic nude scene and flippantly telling journalists that "we have to bring sex to the cinema because our audience is frustrated.".

The whole issue of the hijab has become an excuse for hunting down other people,