Protests in Iran following the killing of a young woman, Jina Amini, who also went by the first name of Mahsa, killed at the hands of the morality police last month. The protests center around the ...
"Why do you wear the hijab?" is a question I'm often asked. Whether it's by well-intentioned and genuinely curious people, those who think I'm doing a disservice to feminism, men who think I would ...
The French Senate in 2022 voted in favor of a bill to ban headscarves in sports competitions. The advocates of the legislation claim that headscarves, or hijab, symbolize Islamic radicalism, ...
Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh at age 11, faced years of shaming over wearing a headscarf in New York. So, in 2013, she started World Hijab Day – a day for both Muslim ...
Muslim and Christian schoolgirls at a public school in Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via GettyImages Hijab use in Nigeria’s public schools has become highly controversial, in ...
Tajikistan's government passed a law banning the hijab, the latest in a string of 35 wide-ranging religion-related acts, in a move described by the government as "protecting national cultural values" ...
The Eiffel Tower adorned with Olympic rings, celebrating the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, seen in Paris, France on July 16, 2024. Credit - Artur Widak—NurPhoto/Getty Images After ...
At the heart of the hijab crisis in Kwara State is the ownership tussle between the missions and the government ADEKUNLE JIMOH reports from Ilorin. The hijab row in government grant-aided mission ...
On why she wears the hijab: “That’s actually the one question we as hijabis get asked the most. And if we don’t have, what we call a quote-unquote stock answer, I don’t think it’s doing our hijab ...