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IndieWire looks at recent films from Jafar Panahi, Nader Saei-Var, and more to consider how hijab is represented in Iranian ...
Moj Mahdara, Kinship Ventures co-founder, and Yasmin Green, Jigsaw CEO, discuss the importance of the internet in the context of the first historically women-led movement: ditching the hijab. "The ...
Model Halima Aden is the first black woman to appear on the cover of Essence magazine wearing a hijab. Aden said in a tweet Monday that she is thankful for the distinction.
Muslim African-American women in the U.S. sometimes wear a hijab to signal their religious affiliation. They also want to dispel the assumption that all African-Americans are Christians, and that only ...
The appearance of hijab-wearing model Mariah Idrissi in an H&M campaign has some asking whether its appropriate to make the Muslim head covering a fashion accessory.
Sixteen year-old Mariem Chourak is a devout Muslim who considers wearing a hijab an expression of her devotion to the Prophet Mohammad, but a proposal by French senators might soon deny her the ...
Aymann Ismail Both my mom and my sister believe it’s a woman’s choice to cover herself. But for Muslim women in America, it’s far more complicated. In some cases, it comes down to a mother ...
Wheaton College, the Christian liberal-arts college in Illinois, has placed a tenured political science professor on administrative leave after she wore a hijab to protest Islamophobia, stating ...
He instituted the multiple cases against the Arabic inscriptions on the nation’s currency, Naira and Army logo. The legal practitioner also dragged the police to court for approving hijab for ...
Irish police are investigating an attack in Dublin in which a Muslim teenager allegedly had her hijab ripped off and had eggs thrown at her.
Halima Aden, a 19-year-old Muslim Somali-American, made history this weekend when she became the first woman to wear a hijab and burkini while competing in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant. Aden ...
A Muslim woman went onto America’s Fox News in a hijab patterned with the American flag.