One year into the pandemic, protective face masks have come to signify different things for different groups of people. At the same time, racialized perceptions related to masks have put an additional ...

In October, Canadians voted out Stephen Harper's Conservative Party in favor of Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party. The election sideshow that captivated me most centered on whether a Muslim immigrant ...

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to after a woman was subjected to a racially aggravated assault ...

CAIRO (AP) — Across the Middle East and elsewhere, some conservative Muslim women only look out at the world around them from behind the niqab. For most, the niqab is a choice. They do so out of their ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A Saudi online newspaper says Oman is proposing that women be banned from wearing face veils when driving. Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf ...

Most Westerners think that women who wear head scarves that cover them from head to foot must be oppressed victims of a radical belief. However, one Muslim woman in Brazil is breaking that negative ...

An 18-year-old Muslim student in Germany can no longer legally wear the veil that aligns with her religious beliefs , according to the U.K.’s Independent. When her school, the Sophie Scholl Evening ...

A woman in a niqab confronted a man who insulted her Muslim faith as “committing hate speech against me” at a California coffee shop, in a video that has been widely circulated on social media. The ...

(WOMENSENEWS)--Tensions between secularists and Islamists are rising daily in Tunisia. A flashpoint right now is in the capital, Tunis, home to Manouba University. On Nov. 28, the dean of humanities ...

A woman shopping at a New Jersey mall said Saturday that she was shocked when a security guard told her to take off her niqab, the traditional face veil worn by some Muslim women. Wakeelah Salaam, ...