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Egypt launches veiled women only channel

by Ruchi Shroff on Jul 24, 2012

Stationed in a small apartment in the working class district of Abassiya in the capital city of Cairo, Maria TV will be broadcast for six hours a day on the al-Ummah channel, a religious station.

Men are banned from the show, even on phone-ins. All women staff, including those behind the camera, wear veils.

Female preacher El-Sheikha Safaa Refai, who heads Maria TV, said the channel's existence showed how far the country had come since the uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

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