The only thing surprising about this article is that there are male Syrian hairdressers.
If you were a Syrian man would you want an unclean woman touching your hair? < /almost sarcasm>
These are Gulf Arabs (which makes it even more bizarre).
Don't they have male barbers?
I thought it was that there was a male hairdresser who was married. To a woman. Two of them, even.
Well, he's probably more of a barber. Afterall, can't have men cutting women's hair or women cutting men's hair. Maybe he was a poofter who didn't want wife #2 to see him holding hands with his boyfriend? But they are a religion of peace and he did prevent her from possibly marring her honor in some way. He'll probably go free. Which is good, because the position of 'wife #2' is open again. He's got some looking to do.
I don't know about "Hairdresser" but being a barber is a big deal in the middle east.
Many times they may look like they have been drug through a sewer pipe but their hair always is neatly groomed.
Not surprising if you think about it. Women have to be covered from head to toe under Islam. Hair cannot be shown, so what is the point of hairdressers for women? Men do not have to keep their hair covered. Therefore, men are the only potential clients of a hairdresser. Since it is forbidden in Islam for a woman to touch a non-relative male, only men can be hairdressers.
PING
The Arabs are really having a tough time with their AIDS epidemic.