Iranian media have hailed trailblazing Iran-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani following her death from cancer, with her image blazoned across newspaper front pages on Sunday. In some cases...
A woman was slapped while she sat on a bus in Turkey after a man allegedly asked her if she was not 'ashamed' to wear shorts during Ramadan. In shocking video footage, 21-year-old student Asena...
Wearing a red hijab and all-encompassing gown, Sakdiyah Maruf cuts an unusual figure in a dark, smokey Jakarta bar as she reels off taboo-breaking jokes to laughter from a rapt audience. She is a...
Basketball chiefs reversed a controversial ban on professional players wearing headgear Thursday after fierce criticism that the rule undermined diversity by disallowing religious coverings like the...
Muslim women dressed as superheroes, princesses, and mighty sword-wielding warriors took part in a hijab cosplay event in Malaysia Saturday, where the role-playing craze continues to grow. Around 20...
Members of the lower house of parliament in Germany have approved a law that partially bans the full-face Islamic veil known as the burka. The bill will now go to the upper house for approval. Civil...
Iran has banned some of its women players from billiard sports competitions for a year for violating the Islamic codes of conduct at a tournament in China, sporting authorities announced. The...
Loose-fitting "modest wear" combines with monotone sporty minimalism in the unconvential motifs of Rani Hatta's Muslim-influenced collection. Eschewing the hijab, her female models cover their hair...
Employers are entitled to ban staff from wearing visible religious symbols, the European Union's top law court ruled on Tuesday, a decision Muslims said was a direct attack on women wearing hijabs at...
Employers are entitled to ban workers from the “visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign” including headscarves, Europe’s top court has ruled. But the ban must be based...
Four months ago, Halima Aden was just another college student in St. Cloud, Minnesota. But now the teenager, who made headlines in November as the first Muslim woman to compete in the Miss Minnesota...
In just two seasons, Indonesian Muslim designer Anniesa Hasibuan has made the hijab her trademark -- and dazzled New York fashion week's catwalk this week by styling it with flowing, iridescent gowns...
The Swedish government has defended its decision to have its officials wear headscarves during a trip to Iran, saying that failing to do so would have broken the law. Trade Minister Ann Linde led a...
I am always afraid to mount the moral high ground and preach about morality because I am not perfect. As a matter of fact, no one is perfect. That means we are all bunch of apple eating imperfects....
A woman by name Zenabu Hamua believed to be in her late 50s met her untimely death after she got wrapped up by the veil (hijab) she had covered her head with on a motorbike that she was travelling on...
Sandra Ankobiah does not mind doing the unconventional at all, and she proves it again. Though a Christian, the lawyer and TV host has shared pictures of herself of wearing hijab in Tamale. Sandra is...
The National Organizer of Ghana Muslim Students Association(GMSA), Madam Kafaya Salami, has urged young Muslim women not to drop their Hijab after their second cycle education. She said many young...
A group of Sudanese women are engaged in a Facebook campaign to denounce regulations that penalise them for failing to wear a hijab. The anonymous activists are opposed to what they term as “legal,...
Five women wearing the Islamic headscarf have been prevented from entering a nursery school in Corsica by other parents, local media report. Police intervened to calm the incident in Bonifacio, local...
