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 ...

(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 ...

Kyrgyzstan, a predominantly Muslim nation in Central Asia, has sparked international debate after enacting a controversial law banning women from wearing full-body niqabs in public. The move, which ...

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to after a woman was subjected to a racially aggravated assault at a shopping centre. The victim had her niqab - a face veil that leaves ...

Rula Ghani shocked the conservative Afghans when she appeared with her husband during the country's presidential campaign. Ghani a Lebanese-American of Christian heritage is set to carve out a role ...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned an upcoming movie featuring Nancy Isime and other actresses wearing purdah (Niqab) and brandishing weapons, describing it as “satanic” and “Islamophobic ...

A 23-year-old woman who started wearing a niqab two years ago says it's "empowering" - even though she's been told she looks like an "executioner" and a "liar". Imaan Ahmed, a law student at Liverpool ...

ADVERTISEMENT Ghani said she supported the ban. 'Regarding the French law against the niqab and burqa which prevent women from being able to move freely and see, because the niqab is a bit like ...