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More than 50 television serials have been produced for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, when soaps are big business, offering viewers a wide variety ofromance, drama and politics.

However, the ones in which the newly veiled actresses make an appearanceare being aired only on Arab satellite television, not on Egyptianterrestrial channels, much to the ire of the country’s Islamists and some of the actresses themselves.

“I don’t know whether it’s a position against veiled women,although they make up 85 per cent of Egyptian women,” Hanan Turkrecently told the Egyptian daily newspaper al-Masri al-Youm.

Six months after donning the Islamic headscarf and calling forthe “Iranisation” of Egyptian cinema, Turk appeared on the StreetChildren television series, which portrays the plight of children abandonedon Cairo’s streets.

Ironically, her film Dunia, in which she plays a dancertormented by the temptations of sexual desire, will also be screenedat the