My desire to wear hijab increased in that moment. Hijab became a symbol of my rejection of white-passing (or at the very least racial ambiguity), a privilege I was distinctly aware I had ...

Now hijab had become a visible political symbol of oppression instead of empowerment, curtailing many of the rights women had achieved under the previous regime. All women, regardless of religious ...

Women wanted total equality. TANIS: Now, 40 years after the Islamic Republic made it a law, the hijab has become a powerful symbol with different meanings. The regime sees it representing its own ...

The hijab is a head covering that many of us have seen Muslim women wear. Those who don’t have knowledge of what it means may believe that wearing the covering is a symbol of oppression.

In his testimony on Tuesday, he said there was a large gap between how Muslim women see the hijab and popular stereotypes that reduce it to a symbol of oppression. Lawyers for the plaintiffs also ...

In reality, as she explains to the podcasts’ hosts, she had not previously worn the hijab because she was afraid ... head covering is the most visible symbol of Islam in the west – and the ...

Wheaton College, the Christian liberal-arts college in Illinois, has placed a tenured political science professor on administrative leave after she wore a hijab ... a meaningful symbol and act ...

Several parents pleaded with a Quebec Superior Court judge on Monday to uphold the province's religious symbols ban in order to shield their children from being exposed to the hijab, which they ...