The BBC's Women In Black

The final episode of the BBC's "Women in Black" was broadcast this week.

The 5 part series saw the presenter, who was herself unveiled, investigate the fashion of Muslim women in Yemen, Dubai, Egypt, the UK, and Holland.

I have to say, it was quite a disappointment. The UK episode was about Pakistani fashion, and the Holland episode was about Moroccan weddings. The Holland episode actually contained nothing Islamic whatsoever - except one 3 second clip of Amani praying with a female rapper.

 Although the show was named "Women in Black" and Amani claims in the opening credits to "show you what's under the veil" (how very cliched), much of the fashion shown didn't actually meet the standards of hijab. 

 Although the programme was the first of it's kind in Britain, a hijab fashion show essentially, I find it was more based on the culture of a few Muslim countries rather than the religion of Islam.