Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh at age 11, faced years of shaming over wearing a headscarf in New York. So, in 2013, she started World Hijab Day – a day for both Muslim ...

Muslim women have spoken about how wearing the hijab is “empowering” in the face of a new poll that has revealed almost half of Britons believe that women are pressured into putting it on. The survey ...

THE challenges confronting Muslim women with disabilities and the realities faced by Igbo Muslims in the South East took ...

A coalition of Muslim women organisations has renewed calls for an end to discrimination against hijab-wearing women across Nigeria.

(RNS) — The thrill of it will never get old for me: seeing Muslim women, especially Muslim women wearing hijab, playing sports, in school, amateur level or professionally. As the NCAA and WNIT women’s ...

Twin Cities nonprofit leader Nausheena Hussain wrote her debut novel "Prosperity with Purpose: A Muslim Woman's Guide to Generosity and Abundance." NINA MOINI: A new book is helping Muslim women take ...

In the Gulf, women traditionally have preferred black outer garments and head scarves, but Ms. Al-Lawati said she had been ...

A moral crusade to rescue oppressed Muslim women from their cultures and their religion has swept the public sphere, dissolving distinctions between conservatives and liberals, sexists and feminists.

Two respiratory therapists had a problem. Both wearers of the hijab, they struggledto keep their patients safe from outside germs while also covering their heads. Many nurses would bring multiple ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization has filed a federal lawsuit against the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, alleging two Muslim women were forced to remove ...