Although there has been a large body of work that studies the rise of the hijab in Egypt, not many have studied its decline. There has been a growing population of women who have been taking off the hijab, particularly since the January 25 uprising and the profound transformations in power relations since then in the past ten years. My research examines women’s decisions to unveil and the narratives they shared about their decision and how it relates to the social and political transformations that occurred since the uprising. Some commentators attribute the trend to the January 25 uprising itself. That the chance to witness and participate in the January 25 uprising gave them the courage and experience to defy authority and social mores. Others claim unveiling was a symbolic protest in response to Islamists’ rise to power and the short-lived rule of the Brotherhood in 2012. A growing number of scholars who study the effects of the coup and its pro-army propaganda, find that women have internalized Islamophobic messages of the army’s claims to save Egypt (and her women) from the Brotherhood’s imposed face-veils, terrorism, and regression to barbarity. To do this, I conducted 30 interviews from June 2020-January 2021 (via Zoom due to the pandemic) with women who took off the hijab after the uprising. To better how this period could have affected their decisions and transformations related to unveiling, I will focus on the conversations with women that discuss their decisions as being related to the January 25 uprising and the coup. This project does not aim to represent the experiences of all women who have taken off the hijab at this period. Rather, it demonstrates the range of ways that the uprising and the divisive sociopolitical context and turn of events could have affected their journeys with and without the hijab. I will also analyze the narratives and debates related to unveiling on mainstream media and in cultural production, to examine the conflicting narratives that regulate these women’s bodies. Studying women’s unveiling in the aftermath of the past ten years since the uprising provides an opportunity to study how women continue to be disciplined by discourses of patriarchy, Islamism, and secular modern masculinity, while examining how women who unveil constitute themselves and how they express and frame their claims.