I sit down with my laptop in a quiet, central Brooklyn café, not far from Prospect Park on a slightly overcast day in August to interview the mysterious Parisian street artist Princess Hijab. I order ...

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

A small number of Iranian women, risking arrest to protest compulsory head scarves, have rekindled debate about Iran's so-called hijab rule. The Islamic scarf, or hijab, is one of the pillars of the ...

Some unidentified soldiers on Friday forcefully removed the veil, popularly referred to as Niqab, from a Muslim woman at Meran Area of Lagos.‎ It was gathered the woman was going peacefully when two ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an opponent of gender equality whose establishment enforces discriminatory laws against women, has marked the one-year anniversary of the global #metoo ...

The hijab may soon be banned from all sports competitions in France, as the lower house of parliament is due to vote on a bill widely condemned by Muslim athletes and human rights advocates as ...

The British were among the most vocal critics of the French ban–back when they were still quite pleased with their own multicultural model. But on October 5, ex-foreign minister Jack Straw revealed ...