Turkey and the Hijab
The hijab is a polarizing topic for many in Turkey, and until very recently, female government employees were banned from even wearing the headscarf, which distressed many. A time for change was due. … [Read more...]
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MTV takes on Hijab
In this entertaining MTV video clip, Fareeha Khan explores the topic of the hijab and asks: What exactly is a hijab...? And do all Muslim women have to wear them? CLICK for fun and informative … [Read more...]
Libyan-American Student Aspires to Become Nation’s First Hijab-Clad Anchorwoman
Photo Credit: Screenshot from "My Dream: First American Hijabi Anchorwoman #LetNoorShine" Noor Tagouri, a 19-year-old college student, wants to become the first Muslim hijabi anchorwoman in … [Read more...]
To Wear… Or Not Wear The Hijab
A BBC Muslim journalist talks about her personal choices throughout years of wearing the hijab (religious headscarf), and not wearing one. … [Read more...]
Muslim Women POV On Hijab
Muslim Frenchwomen Struggle With “Laicite” Laws has garnered a lot of attention, and in this new piece for the New York Times, over two dozen Muslim women explain why they have chosen to wear the … [Read more...]
Tahera Rahman Becomes First U.S. News Reporter to Wear Hijab
Local 4 News, the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities region on the Illinois-Iowa border, announced that its new on-air reporter, Tahera Rahman, is "the first full-time reporter who is a Muslim woman to … [Read more...]
Feminist Scholars On The Myths About Hijab
From hijabi Barbie to the hijabi emoji, scholars Nadia B. Ahmad and Asifa Quraishi-Landes report that the Muslim head-covering is now "ubiquitous." Together they present a compelling listicle of the … [Read more...]
Talks Of Risk Wearing Hijab
In the wake of the recent slaying of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen near a Virginia mosque, Muslim young women who wear the hijab are saying that they are facing resistance with wearing the identifiable … [Read more...]
POV: World Hijab Day
A young woman participates in World Hijab Day and finds that strangers treated her better than her own family. … [Read more...]
Women’s Basketball and the Hijab Ban
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir has been playing basketball for 22 years, holding the scoring record by a high school player in her home state of Massachusetts. The former Division1 NCAA player says that she has … [Read more...]
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