Taliban fighters passed out hijabs and long scarves to girls in Herat, Afghanistan as they returned to school with boys after the Taliban's takeover of the country, the Associated Press reported. Most ...

On January 8, 1936, Reza Shah Pahlavi issued a decree known as "Kashf-e hijab," or "unveiling," which eliminated veils from Iranian working society in a bid to modernize the country. The Shah was ...

Iran Anti-Hijab Protests: Iran has seen multiple eruptions of protests over the past years, many of them fueled by anger over economic difficulties. A young woman climbs to the top of a car in the ...

“Cover your head, see how fast you’re greying!” said a senior neighbour, who always covers her head with a dupatta. Why had I assumed when we first became neighbours that her covered head was a sign ...

The year began on a strange note for 20-year-old Saadiq Hamza. Even though he had his head down in class, on January 3, the very first day of college in 2022, he heard his classmates plan a saffron ...

For many Iranian women, it’s an image that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago, said Fatemeh Shams, who grew up in Mashhad. “When you see Mashhad women coming to the streets and burning ...

Wania Tayyab, 15, remembers the first time she wore the hijab, on a trip to Five Below when she was 12 or 13. “My mom said, ‘You’re growing, why don’t you try wearing hijab?’” Tayyab says she was ...

The Police Department agreed to change its policy and allow religious people to be photographed in head coverings so long as their faces were left unobstructed. By Alan Feuer Two years ago, two Muslim ...

The city of Long Beach, California, will pay $85,000 to settle a 2016 lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman after an officer forcibly removed her hijab, or headscarf, when she was in police custody. The ...

The city of Long Beach, California, will pay $85,000 to settle a 2016 lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman after an officer forcibly removed her hijab, or headscarf, when she was in police custody. The ...