hijab

"The hijab is not an obligation and it does not exist in the Quran," said the controversial Sheikh Mohamed Abdalla…

Alexandria University’s president has stressed that wearing the Islamic full-face veil (niqab) on campus is a “personal freedom”, and has…

Cairo University has issued a decision banning female members of its teaching staff from wearing the Islamic full face cover…

Two Iranian women were fined US$260 in Tehran because they were "poorly veiled," AFP said Iranian media quoted a judicial source…

The veil has yet again been brought to the forefront of ongoing culture wars in Egypt with a campaign to…

Writer Sherif al-Shobashy has called on women to take off their head veils (hijab), adding that 99 percent of prostitutes…

The Salafi-oriented Nour Party announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it has allowed its female members to obtain…

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld France's 2010 ban on full-face veils in public, dismissing a case…

78 percent of the French population objects to the wearing of the Islamic headscarf (hijab) in universities lecture rooms, according…

Four sixth-graders at a primary school in Bulaq al-Dakrur, Giza Governorate, were allegedly beaten by their religion teacher for not…