Niloofar, who is twenty-seven, is a striking woman with a strong face and high cheekbones, and, on the day I met her, at the Parliament, she wore, instead of a burka, a brilliant turquoise shalwar kameez and head scarf all the more noticeable in the assemblage of drably suited and robed male M.

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You know, in all her glory and all her beautiful - and all her beauty, and realize that that's not the typical size two, you know, cheekbones, you know, just this sort of, you know, African-American strong features that you don't necessarily see all the time, not the Caucasian features that are so strongly sort of emphasized, I think, in mainstream beauty.

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