In light of the already slippery, overburdened arsenal of symbolism residing within the veil’s fetishized and increasingly commodified presence in popular culture, Princess Hijab’s adornment of male bodies further complicates the veil’s polysemic meaning. In the 1966 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, men, disguised as women donning hijabs, used the veil as a disguise to evade, or sneak up on soldiers and military police [10]. This film provides an early, canonical portrayal of the historical use of the veil as a disguise, or mode of escape for men, underscoring, as well, how the war of Algerian independence is always moored in a "war of images" and the performance of Western anxiety attached to the veiled body in public [11].