Saudi Arabia Pictures, Photo: Mother and Daughter in Old Jiddah

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

Mai Yamani, daughter of former Saudi oil minister Ahmad Zaki Yamani strolls with her daughter through old Jiddah, where windows are latticed to shield the women from view. “I’m a Saudi woman,” she says. “I like my veil.”

—From “Women of Saudi Arabia,” October 1987, National Geographic magazine

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