Islamic veil: Why fewer women in North Africa are wearing it

In Moroccan news website Al-Yaoum 24, columnist Said El-Zaghouti recently wrote: “It’s not hard to notice that the extent to which the hijab was worn in our Arab world, and in particular in Morocco, has gone down relatively, and that retreat and decline is to a large extent due to the decline and ebb of what is known as the Islamic current.”