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 ...

Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress ...

Diverse. Caught between competing forces. In love with American culture. A new rare screening of dozens of Iranian movies made before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and never seen by American audiences ...

How a refugee went from Target cashier to famed supermodel — without sacrificing her hijab 'Coming into this fashion world, it feels like a family,' Somali refugee turned supermodel Ugbad Abdi ...

Law student and Hijabi advocate Sweenee Sajili visited the Rappler office with a bag of Hijabs and Abayas to let our girls try them on and raise awareness for World Hijab Day. How did it go?

They lamented that despite court judgment and awareness of the significance of adorning hijab, Muslim girls and women still face discrimination in public spaces across the country.

Nazma Khan, who lives in Middlesex County with her two sons and husband, is the founder of World Hijab Day.

‘A lot has changed in terms of the visibility of hijab-wearing women in the beauty and fashion industry, but in 2017 it was a really new community in the online space,’ she says, alluding to ...

Shouldn’t a girl decide what she wears: Supreme Court on college hijab ban Three students of N G Acharya and D K Marathe College had approached the Supreme Court challenging a Bombay High Court order ...

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Mumbai college's decision banning 'hijab, burqa, cap and naqab' on the campus, and said girl students must have the freedom to choose what they wear. A bench of ...

Read interviews with a nurse and a midwife who are Muslim and choose to wear a hijab, on discrimination and their experiences in the NHS.

Around the world, Muslim girls who wear hijabs are experiencing unique forms and heightened rates of gender and race-based violence.