Sentences with word «chador»

A "chador" is a type of traditional clothing worn by some Muslim women. It is a large, loose-fitting cloak that covers the entire body, including the head and often the face, leaving only the face visible. Full definition
This is dramatically highlighted by women in chadors (enveloping garments that have been worn by women in Iran since the revolution) and the figure of a soldier.
(Is it reasonable for a school's dress code to require girls to wear chadors?)
After seeing images of chador covered women screaming «death to America» on your local news, you may think that there is no culture left in Iran.
«The Girl» (Sheila Vand) prowls the dark streets of Bad City covered by her black chador, preying on low life scum.
Left home alone with her young daughter, a desert djinn blew in through the cracks in her bombed - out ceiling and ruined her life, manifesting itself in her bedsheets, daughter and, most pointedly, the black chador she kept forgetting to wear.
In Kabul, I had a camera around my neck, which I was hiding with my chador, and a truckload of men from the Vice and Virtue Ministry — the hardcore Taliban who would go around and stop people from doing anything illegal — saw my camera and stopped me.
Touran Shadpour wears industrial - strength hejab — the chador, the tentlike black wrap that preserves the female form as the mystery the mullahs prefer.
I want to make it clear that I am talking about the niqab and the burqa, not the hijab, the khimar or the chador.
Its more like fighting wearing a hardhat because it won't fit your turban or wanted to be Snow White at Disney world in a chador.
The use of the chador in Under the Shadow is one example of how the film successfully manages to be both a serious reflection on the position of women in Iran and an intensely creepy horror film.
A chador - clad vampire on a skateboard, the heroine of Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is as quietly defiant as the film's title.
Check out that hijab (or is it a chador?
, Tilda Swinton in Only Lovers Left Alive (who had centuries to perfect her swagger), the chador - clad vampire sk8r chick of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and even plastic - ponytailed Wyldstyle of The Lego Movie.
In a fictional Iranian ghost town, a reclusive creature of the night cloaked in a chador, the Girl (Shelia Vand), exsanguinates men.
«I really don't think race, gender, and this stuff is as big a factor as people want it to be,» says Amirpour, who was inspired to cloak her vampire in a chador after traveling from Los Angeles to her parents» native Iran and admiring the garment's bat - like quality.
Josh makes a new friend named Hannah (Vand), a mysterious woman who spends her nights wandering the streets (an obvious nod to Vand's turn as the chador - wearing vampire in «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night»).
Next came the movie's look («The chador, it's so dark and geometric — the movie just had to be black and white») and a killer soundtrack featuring underground Iranian bands like Radio Tehran and Kiosk.
The Islamic outfits Khimar (headscarf), hijab (a «veil» that covers the hair and the shoulders), chador (a black wide semi-circular piece of fabric, which covers the entire female body), burqa (the cloth in which the whole body is covered and eyes covered by a translucent or mesh fabric), niqab (is similar to burqa, but it has a slit in front of the eyes, which are visible) are closely connected with the position of women in Islamic societies (Ssenyonjo, 2007, p. 657).
Under the coarse layers of her manteau and chador, Azar's body was soaked in sweat.
She winced, clasped into her chador.
She undid the tight knot of the headscarf under her chin and let the chador slide down her head.
Azar gasped, seizing the chador wrapped around her, gripping so hard that her knuckles turned white.
Her hands crept up to her headscarf, tightening the knot, sweeping the chador over her head.
She pushed her chador aside.
Do you think Americans will be surprised to see these strong - willed women living underneath their chadors?
Azar waited for them, her hands trembling on the slippery edge of her chador.
The hijab, burka, nikab, chador and abaya.
The works range from Lydia Ourahmane's Polaroids of migrants sheltering in Algerian caves before crossing the Mediterranean, to Hengameh Golestan's images of a women's protest against the chador in Iran in 1979.
She added that a person wearing a chador will still be able to obtain services.
Their fundamentalist leanings meant morning prayer lasted for hours, people spoke only Yiddish, and women and girls wore a chador - like garment in public, covering everything but the oval of their face.
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