In Cambridge, a haven for Muslim women to get their hair cut and styled in private
At previous haircuts, Zaynah Qutubuddin and her stylist squeezed into the salon’s break room, beside the trashcan, the microwave, and the bathroom door -- a private, if dim, substitute for the studio with big mirrors. Sometimes her mother -- a psychiatrist, not a stylist -- trimmed her hair. For Muslim women such as Qutubuddin, who wear the headscarf known as a hijab, getting a hair cut is no easy task. But that’s slowly beginning to change. By Kathleen Burge. (Nov. ’14)
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