I have been researching Muslim women’s fashion since 2004. My comparative investigation has taken me to three locations: Tehran, Iran; Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and Istanbul, Turkey. While there have ...
Hejab is the covering worn by Muslim women--the veils and scarves, long coats and body-concealing robes. In different places it takes different forms, because the Koran’s instruction that women dress ...
Reporting from San Francisco — San Francisco’s De Young Museum is currently home to the first major U.S. museum exhibition exploring Muslim modest fashion. Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San ...
In Uganda, where Muslims are roughly 14 per cent of the general population, modest dress code is usually the visible sign of a Muslim woman’s faith. However, at first glance, sometimes it is hard to ...
A group of Muslim women in France says they have a dream—a dream to “have fun in public swimming pools like all other citizens.” That’s why they defied a burkini ban at a swimming pool in Grenoble, ...
A student on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, trying out the hijab on World Hijab Day, 2017. AP Photo/Russell Contreras In 2013, Nazma Khan – who immigrated to the United ...
The idea that what you choose to wear on the outside is intimately tied to what you believe on the inside is a big "no duh" for anyone who loves clothes. And when your identity is strongly connected ...
Dozens filed in and out of Seek Refuge’s first clothing line launch party held in the Michigan League’s Hussey Room on Tuesday evening. Seek Refuge is an organization, founded by Dearborn native ...
Hmoud is a rising junior at High Tech High and lives in Clairemont. Eid al-Adha is a day I look forward to every year. It’s a time of communal prayer, attending mosque, visiting with family and ...
(RNS) Radical Muslims. The phrase elicits images of ISIS militants and terror in the desert, perhaps grainy YouTube videos, Kalashnikovs, and raised fists. What about ...