Appearance & Beauty

Ibtihaj Muhammad is Team USA’s first Olympian to wear a hijab. The 30-year-old is gearing up to represent her home country at the Rio Olympics in the sabre fencing competition. Muhammad has captured attention since qualifying for the games in February and was voted second by her fellow American athletes …

Nigeria’s court of appeals on Thursday ruled that Muslim female students can wear their head covering to schools...

woman who observes the hijab should be happier than a woman who decides not to...

Police Scotland is to introduce a hijab to its uniform in an effort to attract more Muslim women to a force..

An adviser to the European Court of Justice says companies can prohibit staff from wearing the Islamic headscarf as part of a general ban on religious and political symbols.  The tribunal is currently hearing a compensation claim from a woman who was dismissed from her job for wearing an Islamic headscarf. This is the …

Domestic violence, sexual harassment and abuse, misogyny in all its forms – whether in the East or the West, all these diseases are alive and well in our societies.

Women will be able to ditch their headscarves, hijabs or burkas for workouts at Haya, the female-only gym. Haya has all the usual fitness equipment including treadmills, exercise bikes and weights and it will also feature an onsite prayer room. The businessman behind the idea for the gym in Cardiff, …

Marks and Spencer has launched a new full-length Islamic range of swimwear.

The issue of veiling has been intensively debated in Western society and has implications for religious liberty, inter-communal relationships and cultural interaction.

Some Muslim women organize an event for Japanese people to try traditional hijab at the Tokyo Camii mosque in Shibuya Ward.