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Among the eager takers were Emirati students and engineers — the men in the long white robe known as a thobe, the women in abayas.

He recalls once “making a scene” when he saw a student wearing an abaya over pajamas — the student code prohibits the latter alongside shorts and revealing necklines.

Last year, the Education Minister, who’s now Prime Minister, said the ban included abayas and qamis, clothing traditionally worn in Muslim-majority countries — a move criticized by the U.S. government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Women are no longer required to wear the fully cloaking black abaya.

These included calls for an end to the guardianship system and videos of her shopping without an abaya, they added.