Until recently, such scenes would have been unthinkable in the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose strict dress code for women has required they wear the hijab in public since shortly after the 1979 ...

Student officer PC Seher Nas says she feels "proud and empowered as a Muslim woman" when wearing the hijab A hijab featuring a magnetic "quick-release system" designed to help female Muslim police ...

A hijab featuring a magnetic "quick-release system" designed to help female Muslim police officers on patrol has been put into production. The headwear has been created by researchers at De Montfort ...

On a busy sidewalk outside a café, a group of young people, many of them women, bob their heads to the beat of “Seven Nation Army,” by the White Stripes. Huddled around a live band, some shake their ...

The “aunt” who Zohran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9/11 is actually his dad’s cousin. The socialist mayoral front-runner made the revelation during a press ...

The false claim started on a Chinese-language social media site. Iran’s legal requirement that women wear the hijab in public can be found in its Islamic Penal Code in Article 638. Iran hijab law is ...

Parents of a student prevented from wearing hijab in a Church-run school here have decided to transfer her elsewhere citing 'stress', while the institution welcomed her to continue pursuing education ...

The parents of a Class 8 student at the St. Rita’s Public School at Palluruthy in Kochi have decided to shift her to another school as part of the efforts to end the controversy that erupted after the ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy over a class eight student’s right to wear a hijab at St Rita’s Public School, a church-run public school in Kochi, has snowballed into a major showdown between the ...

Photos and videos of women in Iran burning their hijabs and walking in the streets freely without a veil have circulated on social media in the past few weeks, with people mentioning that Iran has ...

On Tuesday, following conciliatory talks between the girl’s parents and school authorities in the presence of Ernakulam MP Hibi Eden, Anas agreed to adhere to the school’s dress code and help resolve ...

Parents of the girl student in Kerala who had insisted that their ward should be allowed to attend school wearing a hijab have decided to adhere to the school’s dress code. The private school in Kochi ...