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The ideology came primarily from the Muslim Brotherhood, which in the years after Egyptian independence grew increasingly at odds with the socialist ideas of Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser. This apparent conundrum, Ahmed explains, is the result of a combination of radical ideology and vast amounts of money. The resurgence of the veil is all the more puzzling, Ahmed argues, because it re-appeared first among educated women (the group that, several generations earlier, had been the first to discard it) and because the process seemed to be largely voluntary, taking place in countries where no laws coerced women to cover. This phenomenon - the reappearance of the veil in the Muslim world, after several decades during which it had been on the verge of obsolescence - is the subject of “A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence From the Middle East to America” by feminist scholar and Harvard professor Leila Ahmed. And by the time I graduated, I was continually asked why I didn’t wear it. Yet just five years later, when I entered college in Rabat, the number of my classmates who had begun to wear the hijab had multiplied. After all, we were Muslim girls too, but none of us, regardless of the degree of our piety, thought that our religion required us to cover. Our classmate calmly replied that she had decided to wear the hijab because that was what a “true” Muslim girl should do. Surprised by her attire, I joined a group of girls who gathered around her, watching them pepper her with questions. When I was 13, one of my classmates came to school one morning wearing a beige head scarf. The Veil’s Resurgence From the Middle East to America