Word: aqila
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...little self-consciously, in Cairo's ornate Royal Opera House. None wore the flowing charshaf (Moslem robe). Like Egypt's royal princesses, and other upper-class Moslem women, none hid her good looks behind a harem veil. Married delegates had discarded the Arabic word for wife aqila (the tethered one), in favor of qarina (partner). For some of the delegates this was the first congress their governments had ever allowed a woman to attend...