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 ...

Americans began donning face masks this week after federal and local officials changed their position on whether face coverings protect against coronavirus. This is new terrain for many, who find ...

Swiss voters approved a referendum to ban religious veils like the burqa or the niqab. A survey found no evidence that the minority who wear a niqab are connected to extremism, instead choosing to do ...

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 ...

(JNS) Bar-Ilan University said Thursday that it has barred a student from entering campus after she violated school policy by wearing a niqab—a long garment worn by some Muslim women that covers their ...

The decision, however, has triggered a political row, with Bihar’s main Opposition party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), ...

What clothes women are allowed to wear and whether or not men can have bushy beards are being debated again in Muslim-majority Central Asia, this time in Kyrgyzstan. The parliament of the former ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GARY, Ind. – A Muslim woman says she was ...

Bihar has become the first state in India to ban the entry of people with fully covered faces into jewellery shops. The decision came after the All India Jewellers and Gold Federation (AIJGF) issued ...

20 September 2007 The recent decision by Elections Canada to allow veiled voters to participate in the upcoming federal elections without having to lift their veils has prompted a wave of objections ...