In a western perspective, Middle Eastern women are portrayed as restricting, male dominating, inferior, and repressive with western hegemonic ideologies. Muslim women are typically portrayed in the American media as being backward, uneducated, oppressed, voiceless, not modern, submissive, and victimized. Women are known to be simply an oppressed housewife who has no identity or voice. Another aspect that facilitates this Western representation of Middle Eastern women is the stereotypes of veil. The hijab has endlessly been viewed as a sign of enslavement and “backwardness” by the Western culture. The women who wear veils are often seen as belonging to a particular community and being apart of this “backwardness” society. This is implicitly
