The same enthusiasm for fashion fads that cover the hair could be extended into activism against hijab bans, and campaigning to give Muslim women the same rights to clothing and expression that ...

Much has been written about various forms of dress and the history of veiling and unveiling in various parts of the Muslim world, and there is no scholarly consensus as to how it affects women. For ...

Today is World Hijab Day, a worldwide initiative to fight negativity and discrimination against women who wear the Islamic head covering. Women from 190 countries are expected to participate in ...

I was five when I first decided, without parental pressure, to wear the hijab to school – because when you’re a half-Iranian Muslim at an all-white primary school, what will really help you ...

The head stylist and owner of Rana's Hair Design in Narwee has been servicing the local community for 15 years and has hijab-wearing clients come in daily. "I'm Muslim and I know how important it ...

A British convert to Islam who claims she was ordered to remove her hijab at work is claiming she was racially discriminated ...

The petitioners were a group of Muslim girls barred from wearing the hijab in class in a government college in Karnataka's Udupi district - they protested, but the college didn't relent ...

Every day before she starts her shift at a government hospital in Singapore, Farah removes her hijab--the Islamic veil she has worn since a teenager. Although minority Muslim women can freely wear ...