I posted on this a month ago, but it really needed an image to get the full impact, and now, thanks to this piece from the BBC Arabic Service, we have one:
Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi religious channel Awtan TV it has now become the norm.
Female broadcasters at the station are draped in the all-enveloping dresses, which are usually black and also cover their faces….
The programme they're presenting is called, not inappropriately, The Secrets of Girls.
Mick Hartley 
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