SUMMARY This article looks at the hijab and niqab in North America through four lenses:—identity, commerce, media, and politics. It begins with some clarifications around terminology...
Welcome, it’s our monthly Poetry day again! If you want to share your verses with everyone here, kindly email us at poetry[@]muslimmatters[.]org stating your name, along with...
Shirt tucked, hijab secured – I swing my legs up onto the playground bar and quiver into balance. Awkwardly perched on the peak, I look down before I let myself fall...
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country’s universities, as similar moves in Europe spark cries of discrimination against Muslims. The...
On the eve of tomorrow’s Bastille Day celebrations, there is more revolution in the air in France and this time the ringleader is a flamboyant Muslim...
By Kristy Walker A Tory MP has launched a legal bid to ban Muslim women from wearing burkas in public places. Philip Hollobone has tabled a...
Sabria S Jawhar shares her insight into the Burqa ban issue. Quoting from her article: The only journalist lazier than an Arab is a Westerner. I...
Several cars slow and one stops when Sarah walks down the street in her home town of Beit Shemesh, an ultra-orthodox Jewish enclave west of Jerusalem....
It’s Sunday already and what a week it has been for media-houses, rights activists and parties on both sides of the Burqa/face veil ban divide! Let’s...
Al Jazeera English, 31/03/2010 A Belgian parliamentary committee has voted to impose a nationwide ban on wearing face-covering veils in public. The country’s home affairs committee...