A woman named Ibtisam, a 56-year-old housewife living in Baghdad, said that fear of the militiamen "drove my 23-year-old daughter to wear the head scarf. ... We did it for security." The Hijab ...

But Suraya Ali, the daughter of unobservant Muslim immigrants from India, shocked her parents and her classmates by donning a Muslim head scarf ... realized [wearing hijab] is not who I ...

Ms Heshmati, 23, a vocal critic of the country’s controversial hijab laws ... and girls above puberty age must cover their head with a scarf and bodies with long, loose-fitting clothing.

Agsa disagreed with her father about whether she should wear the traditional Muslim head scarf called a hijab. When paramedics arrived at the Parvez home Monday, they discovered Agsa without a ...

Hijab is a head covering worn by some Islamic women, but it refers to more than just a head scarf. Hijab is a lifestyle that has a commitment to living modestly with love for God at its center.

Scores of women have been detained in Iran in recent weeks for not wearing the mandatory Islamic head scarf, as authorities intensify their enforcement of the country’s controversial hijab law ...

The January 14 decree made school uniforms compulsory, and effectively barred Islamic clothing such as the head scarf, or hijab. The policy has been enforced as of September 1, the beginning of ...

Mattel unveiled its first hijab-wearing Barbie doll on Monday, modeled after fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, who has broken ground herself as the first U.S. Olympic athlete to compete in the head scarf.

She was looking at a menu, wearing a simple green top and black head scarf. It was her first public appearance in the hijab, and within a week she had ten thousand new Instagram followers.

In October, Elnaz Rekabi, a top sport climber, competed without a head scarf in South Korea. When she returned to Iran, she apologized, saying that her hijab had slipped off inadvertently ...

Iranian officials were "informed thoroughly" before Friday's match against Jordan that the hijab scarf is banned for safety ... out wearing the hijab, and the head and neck totally covered ...