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A khawal () was an Egyptian acting for men in women clothing between the 1800s and 1900s. It was popular on taking roles previously performed by female ghawazi in Upper Egypt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “khawal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.