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Benjamin Kanter/Mayoral Photo Office. This past February, Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) took to their social media accounts to “celebrate” World Hijab Day—a day ...
Women in Tajikistan, in Central Asia, are being advised by the government to dress more “Tajik-style” and not wear either revealing Western clothes or Islamic head coverings – supposedly to ...
Rima Al Hasan started an online business, Rose Hijab, selling hijabs in 2021 to encourage her daughters to see the beauty of the cultural veil. Hasan, a resident of Dublin, teaches her daughters ...
The hijab is the head covering that some Muslim women choose to wear in public and the presence of non-related men. CAIR staff attorney Nadia Bayado led a discussion covering Muslim women’s ...
Iran's parliament has approved a new hijab law imposing severe fines on women who violate dress codes. This move comes amid growing defiance and protests following Mahsa Amini's death. https://p ...
Now, two Minnesota respiratory therapists are breaking barriers in the health care world, by filling that need and creating disposable, hygienic hijabs. Firaoli Adam and Yasmin Samatar first met ...
Graphic novelist Rutu Modan’s award-winning book, “The Property,” now adapted as a film directed by her sister, actor Dana Modan, will reach Israeli movie theaters this December. The book ...
Modan, a new Japanese restaurant from former Nobu D.C. executive sushi chef Micheole Dator, is opening in Tysons, Virginia, this fall, with an award-winning interior design, sushi counter and ...
Women across the country are having their civil rights blatantly violated while in police custody. On the morning of April 25, Sumaya Hamadmad, a research scientist at Ohio State University, was ...
A lawyer representing a group of women who were apprehended at Arizona State University said they pleaded and begged the officers arresting them to show "humanity" before their hijabs were ...
New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million in a class action lawsuit led by two Muslim women who say their religious rights were violated when police forced them to remove their hijabs for ...