The Media-Friendly 93-Year-Old Archaeologist
When we hit our sunset years, we only hope that we’ll give interviews half as well as 93-year-old Turkish archaeologist Muazzez Ilmiye Cig (pictured). In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel over the controversy in Turkey over the lifting of the headscarf ban, Cig took a controversial question and ran with it:
SPIEGEL: In one of your books, you claimed that the headscarf was worn by temple prostitutes in pre-Islamic days. Some people interpreted this as a direct insult to Muslim women.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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