Algerian women turned the veil into a weapon of anticolonial warfare

Evidence

In the case of Algerian women fighting for independence against the French, the hijab and the niqab were converted into instruments for liberation, through which armed revolutionaries safely passed military checkpoints under their anonymizing shields. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 846

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: how an instrument of surveillance (checkpoints designed to unmask) produced its own counter-technology — the anonymizing veil used to defeat French counterinsurgency identity checks.
• SHARE: Send to the person interested in dress as political technology and anticolonial resistance history.
• XREF: Frantz Fanon’s ‘Algeria Unveiled’ (1959) documents exactly this dynamic of the veil as a weapon of the colonized; strong cross-domain resonance. — connects to: Forced unveiling in colonial Algeria backfired by politicizing the veil — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 302; The veil functions as feminist resistance and liberation, not only oppression — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 305; France’s 1958 forced unveiling drove Algerian women to adopt the veil as protest — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 302 (+1 more)