In a televised leaders’ debate,
the niqab becomes a hot-button issue.
Good arguments on all sides.
I listen carefully,
wondering if I would have continued watching
had the moderator appeared
with her face covered.
And whether I
– or anyone else –
would even have the right
to see her face?
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
