{{For the past 52 years, Egypts state owned Television never allowed news anchors to wear Islamic Headscarf.}} <\/p>\n
Veiled women employed in the TV industry were given jobs away from the cameras. <\/p>\n
But the new Muslim Brotherhood-led government has introduced new rules, saying that nearly 70 per cent of Egyptian women wear the headscarf.<\/p>\n
However, a woman presenter has appeared on Egyptian state TV in an Islamic headscarf for the first time since the station opened in 1960.<\/p>\n
Fatima Nabil wore a cream-coloured headscarf as she read a news bulletin. The presenter later said: “At last the revolution has reached state television.”<\/p>\n
Under the government of ex-President Hosni Mubarak there was an unofficial ban on women presenters covering their hair.<\/p>\n
Fatima Nabil appeared in the headscarf to read the mid-day news bulletin on Sunday.<\/p>\n
She is expected to be followed by other news and weather presenters similarly dressed.<\/p>\n
New Information Minister Salah Abdel-Makshoud, a Brotherhood member, has pointed out that many women appearing on other Arab and international TV channels cover their hair.<\/p>\n
Under Mubarak’s regime, veiled women employed in the TV industry were given jobs away from the cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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