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Within Islam, some women want to wear the headscarves for piety and modesty, while others oppose them as a symbol of oppression. In the sports world, including in the last Olympics, devout ...

"I prefer wearing an abaya because I am comfortable in that," she said. Young women in Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif said that abayas and headscarves offer more freedom of expression ...

She then moved on to discuss the media’s unbalanced representation of Muslim women who wear headscarves, and the way in which it contributes to the current climate of Islamophobia.

Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Women and Democracy Foundation (KADEM), delivered a compelling speech ...

Thousands of men, women and children, wearing Mata Ki Chunni and headscarves were seen treking to the 'Mata Rani Ka Darbaar'.