 Women in the street, then my relatives, my aunts, mother, cousins, friends, every women I know was choosing to return to the traditional veil.It was very upsetting,” Ghada states.Amer's work follows a long modernist tradition of critical practices against veiling, which, as Qassem Amin, Huda Sha'rawi, and Duriyah Shafiq argued decades before, represents a most visible symbol of the forces arrayed against women's emancipation.