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The American University in Cairo put a condition on its application that prospective female students should not wear the niqab or the face cover. Deputies in the Egyptian parliament, including the Muslim Brotherhood deputies, submitted a request of information to Dr. Moufid Shihab, the minister of education, concerning the university’s stand. They have asked the Education and the Scientific Research Committee and the Religious Affairs Committee in Parliament to meet to discuss this thorny issue.

Deputies Dr. Hamdi Hassan, Saber Abdel Sadiq, Mustafa Muhammad, Rifa’at Bashir and Abdel Mone’im Al-Eleimy said that the university’s decision “shows that its policy is separate from the Egyptian government’s policy and questions the role of the higher education ministry as a supervisor according to the rule of law.”