![]() ![]() She traveled under the name Margaret (Peggy) Marcus that her parents-racially Jewish, politically Zionist, religiously members of the then quite fashionable Society for Ethical Culture-had given her, but to herself she was Maryam Jameelah (the Beautiful Mariam). In May 1962, when the first groups of America's newly established Peace Corps were flying out to various "underdeveloped" countries to help them along the road of "progress", a 28 year-old woman set off in a Greek freighter from New York, to a self-imposed exile in one of those same countries, Pakistan. ![]() Who was the woman behind the Burqa? CM Naim reviews a new book about the enigmatic convert from America Maryam Jameelah, formerly Peggy Marcus of New York, was considered an important Islamic polemicist in the 60s and 70s. ![]()
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