In Saudi Arabia, women cannot drive or vote, glimpsing equality only during vacations away from the kingdom. But many women in Islamic countries long ago broke through the image of the black-veiled wife peeking from behind courtyard walls. Venture beyond the scrim of conservatism to the film studios of Lebanon, where the diva pose, seductively articulated by Haifa Weber, a Sexy Muslim model-actress-singer, is calculated down to the curl of an eyelash. Women in the Arab world who wear modest head-to-toe clothing in part to avoid unwanted male attention and now they are in the modelling, films and fashion world.
