Palestinian women participate in an anti-Israeli Hamas rally at the An-Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus, Monday May 26, 2003. A 19-year-old woman who blew herself up at an Israeli mall nearly two weeks ago has raised something of a feminist debate among Palestinians: Should women hop over conservative societal barriers to join the almost exclusively male ranks of suicide bombers?

Decisions, decisions. “Does this scarf make me look like a mass murderer?”