Muslim: a believer in or follower of Islam. Amal Mohamed Nasrullah Abdel-Hakim: sixteen year old girl, living in the modern age, wearing a hijab in the perkiest prep school in Australia.
Amal is a different but normal at the same time; she prays five times a day, but is obsessed with Cosmo, she believes in no physical relations, no boyfriends, no dating, but she has a huge crush on the class hottie Adam. She is a strict believer in her religion and strives to do more, so she decided on her own to start wearing the hijab full time. And in the Muslim, that is a big step for women. The hijab is a spiritual scarf that Muslim women wear around their head to cover their hair and neck, only leaving the face visible. They are mostly supposed to show as little skin as possible as well, but the exception is you are allowed to take it off around family and when there are no men around. In American culture we don’t have any rules like that, we don’t have anything special that were supposed to show and what we’re not supposed to show…well for the most extent. Strong believers in the Muslim world pray so many times and so long because they believe strongly in Allah and his powers.
For a teenage girl to decide to wear the headdress full time is a big religious thing, and Amal is proud to make this choice of wearing it all by herself. Her parents actually doubted her wearing it because her school has a “strict dress code with their uniforms”. She fought for her scarf to be an exception with the principal and won. Now everyday she wears it in different colors and fabrics and still faces her challenges as a junior in high school.
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