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Hiding in a Hijab
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Also known as: Anonymous in an Al-Amira, Blending In in a Burqa, Concealing in a Chador, Disguised in a Dupatta, Spying in a Shayla, Nobody in a Niqab, Keeping Secret in a Khimar, Pseudonymous in a Purdah... Ah, the hijab, and its close cousins the niqab and the burqa; these articles of clothing are most associated with Muslim women for religious modesty. They also have the distinctive properties of being 1. Extremely common in certain locations and 2. Face-concealing. This means that if you as a fictional character are on the lam in Qurac, running through the ubiquitous out-door marketplaces in an attempt to dodge your pursuers by leaping over apple-carts, you have a perfect means of evading capture: Simply don one of those big, black outfits the women are wearing, and vanish right into the crowd. Just how you're supposed to come by one of these is not important. How you find one in your size is even less so. The important thing is that you can hide your face without drawing the kind of attention a mask or hood would bring down on you, and make yourself harder to find than Where's Waldo?. Often overlaps with Disguised in Drag when done by a male character, where it's even more likely to be Played for Laughs than usual. Mysterious Veil may or may not include the full hijab but serves much the same purpose. A nun's habit can fulfill a similar purpose in western settings. Contrast with Bedlah Babe, the other stereotypical clothing for Middle-Eastern women which is anything but modest. |
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Done in Zero Dark Thirty; a group of soldiers wearing hijabs and hiding machine guns under them was used to capture a member of Al-Qaida for interrogation. | |
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A variation of this trope occurs in the Party Down episode "Not On Your Wife Opening Night". The titular catering team is catering an opening night party at a community theatre, and at one point, Henry and Casey go backstage, and Casey puts on a burqa costume from the play. When she and Henry kiss shortly afterward, Lydia walks in on them, and Casey attempts to re-adjust the costume to hide her face from Lydia (as she knows that Lydia will tell everyone about Casey and Henry kissing if she finds out the truth). | |
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This is how the Burka Avenger maintains her secret identity. The villains of the show are certainly hoist by their own petards in this instance, as they are the people insisting that women wear burkas in the first place. | |
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The titular Alfred does this in the second season of Alfred J. Kwak, concealing his identity and species (the locals appear to all be goats, while Alfred is a duck) while escorting a middle-eastern prince in a hostile country. | |
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The first Battal Gazi have the character Princess Elinora infiltrating a Byzantine prison while disguised as a Muslim woman. Face-veil and hijab included. | |
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Done in an early episode of Community where Shirley's two children hide in a burqa so that Abed's cousin can get in the bouncy castle without Abed's disapproving father noticing that she's gone. | |
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Doonesbury: While in Afghanistan Hedley disguises himself this way, it triggers quite a few jokes. | |
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This is used a couple of times in Y: The Last Man. A trio of renegade Cuelper ring agents tracking 355 wore burqas until they caught up with her in San Francisco. Later in Australia, 355 decided that Yorick's gas mask & poncho getup was growing too implausible and provided him a... pre-owned one. | |
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In Pygmy, this is how Trevor Stonefield smuggles guns into the Model United Nations meeting. | |
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Used in New X-Men: Academy X when X-23 knocks out Dust and "borrows" her niqab, going in her place to what X recognizes as a trap. When a sniper shoots "Dust" and they bring in the body, Laura wakes up and takes them out. | |
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Roger, being an alien, has done this a few times on American Dad!. | |
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Funky Winkerbean: During Wally's escape from his Afghan tribal captors, he was taken in by an orphan girl who dressed him up in a burqa to hide him from said tribe. | |
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Top Gear (UK)'s Middle East Christmas Special had the presenters take a meandering journey from Iraq to Bethlehem. Driving through Syria, the guys unexpectedly discovered that Top Gear is extremely popular in Syria. Which posed a problem, because Israel doesn't allow entry to people who have been in Syria.note Having a second passport without evidence of travel to Syria is the usual workaround, but they feared "Top Gear Visits Syria" publicity might precede them. After their attempt to pass through the empty Syrian desert ended with James being hospitalised with a serious head injury, they then decided to don burqas instead to pass unnoticed. This cunning plan didn't work all that well, as three people in burqas driving bizarrely modified convertible sports coupes still tend to draw attention.note In any case, they eventually made it past the Israeli border crossing without incident. | |
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The Cleveland Show: In the episode "Yemen Party", Cleveland wears a niqab to disguise himself as a Yemeni Muslim woman named Fatima in order to spy on Donna and her friends. This ends up backfiring on him once the ladies arrange a trip for "Fatima" back to Yemen and "she" ends up marrying a sultan. | |
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On The Wild Thornberrys, although Eliza isn't actually running from anyone, she does use a veil in order to switch places with a friend in one episode. The disguise is impenetrable until said friend confesses to the ruse. | |
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The Scorpion King: After Matthayus escapes with the Sorceress from her bath through a drainage pipe, they emerge in a public fountain where Matthayus immediately grabs nearby laundry as disguises for both of them. Cue Matthayus and the sorceress escaping the city dressed in robes and veils. | |
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Lupin III: Part II: In episode 17, Lupin and his gang steal burqas to hide from Inspector Zenigata. Zenigata tracks them to a well where women are doing the laundry. Finding the gang's discarded clothes, he forces the women there to remove their veils, and promptly subverts the trope when it's revealed the ladies are actual ladies, who promptly make their displeasure known with wooden laundry mallets. Later in the episode, it's played straight when the gang actually does disguise themselves in burqas. Afraid of getting beaten again, Zenigata lets them go without an inspection. In episode 30, Zenigata himself dons this disguise as he and Lupin are on the run from the local Foreign Legion. |
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Reese does this in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle after he's joined the army and is lost in Afghanistan. | |
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Tintin and Captain Haddock sneak past Khemed guards while wrapped up and balancing urns on their heads in The Red Sea Sharks. The captain trips, nearly swears, and manages to keep the urn balanced to the guards' unhidden admiration. Later at a well, they meet another robed woman who questions them in Arabic. When neither answers, she rips off the (bearded) captain's veil, who starts yelling at her as Snowy pops out of the urn and starts barking at her. Fortunately, they escape before the guards can find them, but the alarm is raised, and they're saved only by their pursuers' incompetence. | |
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This was done by Luke Cage and Danny Rand in the 81st issue of Power Man and Iron Fist; part of the gag was that the cover advertised "a bevy of beautiful dancing girls" without mentioning just who two of those "girls" were. | |
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The Battle of Algiers has French soldiers on patrol and pass by two women in hijabs, only to notice that those "women" are wearing men's boots... Another scene features a subversion: The French gendarmerie manning a checkpoint harasses anyone in traditional Algerian garb. The actual FLN agents, however, are a group of women who wore Western-style clothes specifically because they knew the gendarmerie would be operating under this trope. |
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In Artemis Jazz wears a niqab for her false identity as a Saudi tourist, which has the additional effect of hiding her face from the many people she knows in Artemis. Of course it helps that she actually is from Saudi Arabia, even if she hasn't set foot on Earth since she was six. | |
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In Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain, the female version of Cobra dresses in a burqa for the Arms Bazaar mission in Yemen. As usual, certain guards can see through the player's disguise, although the others don't seem to notice when you're carrying a weapon and wearing night-vision goggles on the outside of the veil. Just don't walk around with the gun drawn. | |
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Phryne Fisher is doing this (rather badly) in Jerusalem at the beginning of Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. | |
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I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face: A young man puts on a burka, and pretends to be a woman, so he can go to the all-female wake for his recently deceased girlfriend. | |
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In White Sun of the Desert, Black Abdullah uses this trick to get the drop on Petrukha (a Red Army soldier and Comrade Sukhov's sidekick) and kill him. | |
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In The Red Vixen Adventures Marty and Ali use this disguise while trying to move around unobserved on a space station. | |
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Parodied on Family Guy, where two cops end up chasing Brian through an inexplicable marketplace and find what seems to be Brian in a burqa, only to discover it's actually just an ugly woman. | |
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Done in a sketch from Les Guignols de l'Info, where American soldiers (always played by the Sylvester Stallone puppet) disguise themselves with burqas while in Afghanistan. Of course, not only are they way too tall and unable to mask their male voices, they also have no idea how to act like Muslim women. Notably, when asked where they're going by a male Afghan, one say they'll be hitting the gym and spa. | |
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Super Cop has Inspector Yang doing this during the stake-out in Malaysia, where Yang disguises herself as a local Malay woman by donning a hijab, before suddenly revealing herself to beat up a few prison guards. It helps that Yang's actress, Michelle Yeoh, is Malaysian and can speak the native language really well. | |
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