Latest in Tag: Hijab Highlight
Latest in Tag: Hijab
French retailer Decathlon cancels plan to sell sports hijab
Sporting goods chain Decathlon has canceled plans to sell a sports version of the hijab Muslim headscarf in France after a public outcry. Supporters of the hijab say it allows women to be an active part of society.French sporting goods chain Decathlon has canceled plans to sell a runner's hijab in France following a public …
Social media users blog for World Hijab Day
Users published stories on discrimination challenges, how they struggle to wear the headscarf
Fashion between tolerance and politics
Growing up with stereotypes is both confusing and pressuring. In many parts of the Middle East, women are often categorised based on mistaken concepts and outdated ideas. The women of Iran are a controversial topic that often ends with generalised assumptions that could not be further from the truth. Recently, many Iranian women have decided …
There is no law obliging students to be veiled: Education Ministry
This comes following a complaint from families at Al-Naseriya school in Zagazig, reporting that the school director forced their daughters to wear the veil
Hijab unravelled: Photographic documentary of hijabi women
My only intention is to give 31 young Muslim women the opportunity to convey what inspires each of them as individuals to wear the hijab, says photographer
Meet the first international hijabi model
“It is a positive message portraying diversity, and respects the hijab,” says model
Hijab fashion in Egypt: a classical wrap or a trendy “Spanish”?
The hijab fashion in Egypt has been changing rapidly over the last ten years. Although the Spanish style veil has emerged five years ago, a newer and faster “Spanish” is getting simpler and looser now. Some argue that the traditional hijab, despite the new florescent colours, will soon fade out in Egypt.
A pointless piece of cloth debate
Few hours after Fatma Nabil has read the 12 o’clock news bulletin in her full cream-colored veil, the Egyptian media sphere has quivered with endless controversial discussions on the extent to which the entire country is deliberately being ‘Ikhwanised’. Being the first Egyptian female newsreader ever to appear on Egypt’s state television, the move assuredly …