title: Fabulous Veils: Inspired By True Stories of Egyptian Women's Everyday Life
author: Iman Abdel Azim Refaat
description: Working as an Educator for nearly two decades, Iman Refaat aims to help people make paradigm shifts after examining their frames of reference, ensuring neither to refuse nor to accept old models unless they consider them from multiple angles. Her novel Fabulous Veils reveals the various forms of gender inequality and female oppression in Egypt. You may visit her at www.imanrefaat.com
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  # THE DANCE OF THE VEILS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Sax Rohmer
  
  
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  I. THE HOUSE OF THE AGAPOULOS
  
  
    
  II. ZAHARA
  
  
    
  III. THE STAR OF EGYPT
  
  
  ## THE DANCE OF THE VEILS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I. THE HOUSE OF THE AGAPOULOS
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  Hassan came in and began very deliberately to light the four
  
  
  lamps. He muttered to himself and often smiled in the childish
  
  
  manner which characterizes some Egyptians. Hassan wore a red cap,
  
  
  and a white robe confined at the waist by a red sash. On his brown
  
  
  feet he wore loose slippers, also of red. He had good features and
  
  
  made a very picturesque figure moving slowly about his work.
  
  
    
  As he lighted lamp after lamp and soft illumination crept about
  
  
  the big room, because of the heavy shadows created the place seemed
  
  
  to become mysteriously enlarged. That it 