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Veiled presenter makes first appearance on Egypt's state TV
Sunday September 02, 2012 11:03:40 PM,
Agencies
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Cairo:
A veiled presenter created history when she read the news on Egyptian state television for
the first time Sunday after the official media lifted a decades-long ban
on veiled female news presenters appearing onscreen.
Fatma Nabil made her first appearance on the Channel 1 midday
broadcast, wearing a cream-colored hijab covering the hair and
neck, reflecting a shift in official media since last year’s
overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt's state television had maintained the policy against veiled
women even though
some presenters had sued for the right to wear head coverings and
won.
TV official Mohammed Fathi told the Associated Press that Nabil's
appearance would encourage many other women who wished to wear the
veil but feared losing their jobs.
Until the revolution that toppled Mubarak last year and brought
Islamist President Mohamed Mursi to power, women in Islamic
headscarves and particularly full-face veils had been kept firmly
out of the media.
“Finally the revolution has reached the Egyptian media", Nabil told
the Muslim Brotherhood's daily newspaper, Freedom and Justice.
The 2011 uprising opened the way for the long-banned but powerful
Muslim Brotherhood, as well as other Islamist movements, which won
a crushing victory in parliamentary elections.
Four veiled presenters have so far obtained permission to appear
veiled on TV; one on Channel 1 and three on Nile News. A fifth,
who also works in Nile News, has submitted a request after having
recently put on the veil.
Veiled presenters will be required to maintain uniform style in
the way they wear their head scarves.
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