Young women in Afghanistan are rejecting the traditional burqa for more comfortable abayas and hijabs, challenging ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

Dutch fashion brand Merrachi faced backlash in France for an ad depicting the Eiffel Tower draped in a hijab. Critics, ...

Paris: A recent advertisement by the Islamic clothing brand Merrachi has ignited a heated debate in France. The ...

As part of their ongoing campaign against begging, the Dubai Police arrested a woman who was begging in an unusual way. She ...

The Botswana government signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company on Tuesday after seven years of negotiations. The deal gives the government an ...

The League in Lombardy, which since 2015 with President Maroni had already banned the use of the burqa in regional places, wanted the Regional Council to take a clear position against the oppression ...

A woman found guilty of terror offences has had a second custody image released by police, showing her wearing a niqab, after her defence said she was distressed by ...

As a youngster, in the 1960s, I cannot recollect an instance of seeing a Muslim woman wearing the black Abaya or the Niqab in Sri Lanka. The words Abaya and Niqab are Arabic words. Abaya means, a ...