State TV lifts veil ban for presenters

Egypt’s state TV has lifted a decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters whom successive secular regimes have barred from going on air.

In a cream-colorued headscarf and a dark suit, Fatma Nabil appeared yesterday and read the 12 o’clock news bulletin.

Egypt’s state television maintained the policy against veiled presenters throughout the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.